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Gryphons are a new and budding race in the world. They suffered their share of strife and oppression when they first appeared but over time humans have become more accepting, especially as the new sport of Gryphball became popular.

The New Year's slaughter has left the country of Greifsburg in turmoil. A new army of mindless, soldier class clone gryphons have been released into the world with, what our gryphon band believes, no direction or commands. However, two gryphon, Yama and Zero, are different than the rest of their cloned comrades. Not only is their appearance different than the others, but they have faint memories of what it was like before their conversion. Yama and Zero command their own platoon of gryphon soldiers to overtake a small town in Austria, but as for what is next remains to be seen.

A bloody massacre. A looming civil war. Can two opposed gryphons work together to save their kind? Zeph thrills at the wind in his wings and the hunt for wild parrot. As a simple forest gryphon, he never thought much about his sophisticated city-dwelling cousins living in the lofty eyrie at the edge of the woods. But, his carefree life turns upside down when he comes across a young city gryphon stunned by her discovery of a field littered with slaughtered animals.

Private Detective Kaiser Wrench is a dangerous tiger to have as a friend, but he will avenge your death. Follow Kaiser as he prowls the streets of New York in the first five volumes of this series: I, the Tribunal; My Claws Are Quick; Retribution Is Mine!; A Solitary Evening; and The Great Slay.

"Your destiny is calling to you. I can hear its song on the wind." In the secluded swamp of the Shadestalker tribes, Ash always felt like an outcast. To a village of dragons who hide in the shadows, his glittering scales mark him as different. When an accident during his rite of passage leads to him unleashing his dormant powers, he learns a horrifying truth: he's not a Shadestalker at all, but a Firebreather. To make matters worse, the Firebreather kingdom was destroyed by the Ironscale empire thirteen years ago, and its dragons scattered across the continent of Drakona.

Kia always has her beak in a book. But when her best friend goes missing, she flies down to the woodland and gets tangled up with a wild country gryphon and a shocking conspiracy. With food in short supply and war on the horizon, Kia must choose between forsaking her own or allowing Zeph’s people to be wiped off the map. Forced to overcome their prejudice and misconceptions, the unlikely pair races against time to prevent an apocalypse.

When Jabrami discovers a mysterious black stone in the depths of his dwarven mine, he never imagined it would lead him on an epic journey to the surface world. Armed with nothing but his wits, his mining experience, and the stone's shadowy power, Jabrami ventures into a realm of intrigue, danger, and magic beyond his wildest dreams.

When a dying millionaire hires Lucius Anoraq to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, Anoraq finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in.

Tiny Wallace’s one claim to fame was knowing Kaiser Wrench. Was that reason enough for someone to gag, torture, and kill the mule? Or was it the five wallets found in his garbage? Bodies pile up while Kaiser returns the wallets, trying to find the killer while Duke and the feds are busy searching for a biological terrorist.

Thyra, a Redtail Gryphoness, once lived happily in the state of Georgia with her human husband, Johnathen, despite being harassed by an anti-gryphon organization called The Gathering. Now that the hate-filled organization has crumbled to pieces, Thyra and Johnathen are free to live their life in peace. Unfortunately, the wake of destruction caused by The Gathering has cost them their home, their belongings, and has lasting effects on the community around them.

After The Gatherings cult leader, Matthew, fails to rally the public against the gryphons, he attracts unwanted attention. Desperate to avoid public scrutiny, he searches for ways to make Thyra’s and Johnathen’s life miserable. While Thyra excels in her new Gryphball team, Matthew puts plans into action to resurrect a ghost from her past to haunt her, but his rashness may spell his downfall. He's determined to rid the city of these "Gryphon abominations" and burn all in his path to accomplish his objective.

After her parents go missing, Grith, a young dragon used to a simple life of hunting and reading, is forced to take a job at a magical tech company in the middle of LA. Yet, hiding her nature is all but impossible: once taking a human shape is no longer an option, Grith must confront her dragon instincts, and finds that the job she's accepted is far more dangerous than anything she could have imagined. The fate of the city depends on whether Grith decides to stand with humans — or apart from them.

Griffin Ranger: The Monster Lands concludes the story begun in Griffin Ranger: Crossline Plains, as Ranger Harrell seeks to discover the fate of his missing daughter and the other creatures taken by the greenies.

Just when victory seemed inevitable for the Seraph King, his forces withdrew to the far reaches of the continent. Now. the seas are full of treacherous flamingos, the poison reeve’s assassins stalk the desert, and the armies of the Golden Sky hunt gryphons across the air.

Years ago, Satra left the leader of the Crackling Sea to die in the conflagration. Still haunted by the nightmares of what he did to her pride, she believed his corpse rested under the ashes of the Redwood Valley. Until a bloody wingsaw showed up outside the throne room.

Griffin Ranger Harrell White-shoulders is undisputed master of his territory. His word is law, and he enforces it with deadly beak and talons. He’s never encountered a problem he can’t overcome…until now.

Something haunts the desert, something that was once an opinicus.Cherine—scholar, adventurer, metal-beak, and popular kidnapping victim. While his old mate and friends fight for his amnesty, he lives out his exile in the aneda forest. When Zeph and Kia approach him about hunting down the infamous Nighthaunt, he’s all too happy to leave his hovel behind.

Griffin Lanner Redtail is a professional hunter nearing the end of his career. When he’s given a rare opportunity to take down a giant ground sloth, he jumps on it. But with only an untried apprentice to help tackle the huge animal, and a quarreling flock of greenies covering his every move, this hunt could be his last.

When the Ashen Weald captured Cherine, they made a grave mistake. In the months since the bog expedition, bodies have begun appearing in the night. Is this the owl gryphon’s vengeance? Or is something more sinister haunting the night? As Cherine’s trial approaches, Ninox’s allies and enemies alike attempt to hunt her down before she goes too far.

On the shortest night of the year, blue eyes pierce the snowstorm.The elusive gryphons of the frozen taiga are beautiful, mysterious, and nearly extinct. As the days grow short and danger lurks around every corner, their eyes turn a bright blue. This short story collection set in the world of Eyrie follows several famous taiga gryphons during their most trying times.