Books published by Shorthorse Press

What do you do, when achieving what you most desire, involves facing what you most fear?Peter Aarons has been cast in the role of a lifetime. He is portraying his hero, Sergei Rachmaninoff in a major motion picture. He's been working hard and loving every minute of it, but now his part involves filming on location in the recently collapsed Soviet Union, in a crumbling manor house in the middle of nowhere. Even with Philippa beside him he's afraid it will be a harrowing experience. What ghosts will be stirred in him? What terrifying events from his past will surface? Will he be able to embrace his Russian heritage and celebrate Rachmaninoff, or will he fall victim again to the atrocities which befell him as a child? Will he rise from the ashes of a child's haunting memories, or collapse under their weight and bring the film down with him? Either way, he's about to find out.

What unseen force, what unseen power, is making these people behave as they do?Why do they believe that the verdant planet above them is the Witch World, where sinners go to burn?Why are they living like rats in the old sewer system of a ruined city?Who are the fanatically religious Flamen, and what is their real agenda?Morality is corrupted, civility for the privileged few. With Teal and Konik beside him, Ardenai begins carving a confusing, demoralizing and dangerous path into a society based on fear, suspicion and hatred.