Tam Lin Publishing
Tam Lin Publishing is a micropublisher owned and operated by award-winning author Liz Colter writing as L. D. Colter, L. Deni Colter, and Eliza D. Collins.
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Dark Fantasy by L. D. Colter
A Borrowed Hell
Lost in a barren alternative world, July Davish has two options: Confront his hellish past or be trapped there forever.
Fate has dealt July a lifetime of nothings; no happy childhood, no lasting relationships, and now, no job. His mantra of perseverance has gotten him through it all, but faced with losing his home, he finally sets foot on the same road of self-destruction the rest of his family followed.
An accident changes everything. When two colliding cars send him diving from a San Diego sidewalk toward safety, he lands somewhere far from safe—in a bizarrely deserted version of San Francisco. Though he wakes in his own reality, he continues to pass out, dragged back to that strange world each time.
July is willing to do anything to end his world-hopping, right up until he learns the price: reliving a past he's tried his whole life to forget. He’s not sure his sanity can take it. Not even to get back to his own world, a woman he’s falling in love with, and a life he finally cares about.
2018 WINNER OF THE COLORADO BOOK AWARD FOR SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY
While Gods Sleep
The first time Ty died he was five; the second time he was seven.
He's always believed his third death will be the final one. Now he may find out.
Greece, 1958. Ty’s childhood is twenty years in his rear-view mirror, along with his near-death experiences and the accompanying visions of terrifying gods. But when he accepts an invitation to gamble on a game of chance, his peaceful reprieve is shattered. Cast now into the underworld to repay his debt, his fate quickly entwines with sleeping gods and the factions that seek to control them. But even the gods and monsters of Erebus tremble at a new enemy; one powerful enough to destroy them all.
A fantasy thriller by award-winning author, L. D. Colter. Get ready to dive head-first into an alternate 1950s Greece where conjoined queens rule a nation perched above an underworld filled with demi-gods and monsters, and a mortal man holds the key to the fate of the gods.
"Shunning clichés, Colter crafts a suspenseful plot that dashes along to the rousing ending... Fans of Greek myths and celestial fantasy will root for Ty and eagerly await more adventures in this polished world." - Publishers Weekly
"The pleasures of Greek mythology mixed with the dark undercurrents of contemporary fantasy." -- Walter Jon Williams, New York Times bestselling author
2019 WINNER OF THE COLORADO BOOK AWARD FOR SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY
Books released through other publishers
Epic Fantasy by L. Deni Colter
The Halfblood War
Available through WordFire Press and all ebook markets.
An heir to the realm must choose between his love for an elven woman and the terrifying prospect of war with her people.
The fates of two races hang in the balance in this sweeping story of love and war, prejudice and acceptance.
Tirren, heir to the ruler of Thiery, has raised his half-Elven son in a land that hates and fears the Elves. But his son’s struggle for acceptance is only one source of Tirren’s pain. The other is his unfading desire for Yslaaran, the Elven woman who eighteen years ago captured him in a spell, seduced him, and vanished. She returned only once more—to hand him his infant son.
When a neighboring ruler attacks the land of Thiery, Tirren rides to battle with his half-breed son at his side. Learning of the war, Yslaaran fears the conflict will unravel her long-laid plans for the boy. If she doesn’t interfere, he could die before his time, but if she reveals her hand by meddling, her own people could rise up against the humans they despise—and that will trap the land between two deadly enemies.
Only Yslaaran knows that both humans and Elves risk a future more devastating than war.