Sara King

"The Moldy Dead" is one of the powerful and poignant "Creation Myth" stories for Sara King's overwhelmingly popular Legend of ZERO series. It is the history of Congress' First Contact with the sentient species known as the Geuji, and the unspeakable tragedy that befell their entire species in the early history of Congress.

Blaze MacKenzie is a brand new heiress who just discovered that her ‘parents’ actually found her abandoned as an infant in a bizarre human sacrifice in the woods. Along with that news came a six hundred thousand dollar check, a strange golden feather, and the ability to move to the Alaska Bush and begin her dream-life living off the Grid. But unfortunately for Blaze, something else was there first, and he's not willing to move...

At 19, Bonnie Stanford is your average hardworking urban college student in Alaska—just a typical girl trying to find her place in the world while avoiding her psychotic parents. (Well, typical if you don't count the fact that she doesn't know that she's an un-awakened Vampire Queen.) Having just lost her job, Bonnie reluctantly accepts the request to house sit her parents’ place out in the middle of Nowhere, Alaska, while they go on a three-week vacation. Two days before they are due home (and she can go back to quietly ignoring them), however, Bonnie receives a strange package and a letter, both of which turn her world upside down. Suddenly, she finds herself at the top of the Supernatural Most Wanted List, just because she has to suck blood and can, oh, by the way, enthrall people. Being hunted by the Inquisition and vampire lords who wanna kill her or enslave her, with only an ancient Samurai who is just as wary of her as she is of him as a companion, Bonnie tries to handle the insanity she has just been immersed in. Will the tentative trust formed between the centuries-old warrior and the naïve young woman be enough to help her survive the dangers to come? Will the unlikely pair be able to overcome their fear of each other to survive the coming supernatural apocalypse? Or will Bonnie fall to the supernatural creatures seeking to bind her and use her to make their dark armies?

This is our first collaboration with bestselling fantasy author, Sara King.  "The Candle" A last-minute gift becomes a lifetimes-long nightmare. "Discerning Tastes" What expecting mother wouldn't want magic, whatever the cost? "Face Cards" A trio of friends vacationing in the deep woods discover why people have been disappearing in that area for centuries... © 2021 Sara King ℗ 2021 Soundbooth Theater

First Contact didn't go as expected. Now they own us. Earth has been conquered by a massive galactic empire, and its war machine needs soldiers. In a cruel twist of fate, 14-year-old Joe Dobbs accidentally ends up on a ship carrying Earth's children to an alien training planet. To make it out alive, he must survive an apathetic bureaucracy that sees humans as little more than spare rations. Meat with guns. Or, if they're really unlucky, servants. The oldest of the children drafted from humanity's devastated planet, Joe unwittingly becomes the centerpiece in a millennia-long alien struggle for independence. Once his training begins, one of the elusive and prophetic Trith gives Joe a spine chilling prophecy that the universe has been anticipating for millions of years: Joe will be the one to finally shatter the vast alien government known as Congress. And, the Trith cannot lie.…but first, Joe has to make it through boot camp.

Two turns after the events of Forging Zero, Rat and Joe finally finish their PlanOps training and get orders to their first duty station--a hellhole Bagan planet called Blekk--but first, a little good old fashioned R&R! Joe and Rat get set loose on the Ueshi pleasure planet of Kaleu with fourteen days and five turns' worth of credits burning a hole in their pockets, and they plan to make full use of it! But this wouldn't be a Legend of Zero if Zero didn't do something legendary, now would it? One would certainly think that a 15 day vacation to an Ueshi pleasure planet would be nothing but peace and relaxation... However, when Baga are involved, a lot can go sideways--especially when one of Joe's groundmates is a numbers-crunching, gambling-obsessed savant fixated on beating the house! Kidnapping, assassination, a splash of gratuitous violence, nailbats... Can Zero save his teammates from the bowels of a casino and salvage his vacation before time runs out? Will Rat get her revenge, or will her competitive streak go too far? Come enjoy the latest installment in the Legend of ZERO!

Long ago, Kaashifah the Fury, Chosen warrior of the Lord of War, fought a djinni to a stalemate in an ancient duel of souls. Three thousand years later, she and ‘Aqrab, the passionate djinni prince of the Fourth Lands, are still bound together, each waiting for the other to make that final, killing blow. To complicate matters, they are being hunted across the vast Alaskan wilderness by a team of holy soldiers who are specially trained—and highly successful—at capturing the numerous magical beings of the Five Realms. In order to save their friends from the Inquisition, some compromises must be made…and some boons given. But in unraveling the magics that bind them, will these two ancient immortals learn to trust each other, or will their own thawing hearts be their undoing?

Having teamed up with Theo, a very old and surprisingly chivalrous vampire lord, Bonnie and her samurai friend Masaaki now have a slightly better chance of surviving the next couple weeks. But trouble calls when one of Theo's old friends gets kidnapped by a rival lord, and he and the samurai leave the untrained queen alone while they rush headlong into a trap. Angry at suddenly being the rich errand girl, Bonnie makes a very unwise decision to go rescue a barghest from local slavers—the same barghest that both of her guardians repeatedly warned her not to save because barghests eat vampires. But she is inexplicably drawn to the huge beast called Björn, even as he makes her tremble in fear. Now, while Theo is missing in action, and Masaaki is wandering lost in the Alaskan wilderness, Bonnie alone must find a way to keep the barghest from eating everyone who pisses him off while simultaneously staying out of the hands of the Inquisition.

The most fearsome aliens in existence just allied with the universe's most deadly psychopaths, and all hell is breaking loose. It's been 53 turns after the legendary Commander Zero graduated as a Congie warrior. Joe, now a battle hardened veteran, has spent his life surviving wars he had no right to survive. Yet his real test is coming: New forces are conspiring to start a great war like the universe has never seen, one that would rip apart the very fabric of Congress. Joe is conscripted to fight the very war everyone has been fearing since the rise of the Dhasha—the war against the legendary Dhasha Vahlin. Unfortunately for Joe, at the same time, other ruthless powers are conspiring to kill him before he fulfills the prophecy of the Trith. To fight the Vahlin, a desperate Congress comes up with a tactic it abandoned millennia ago—the use of multi-species groundteams. Joe, now a Prime Commander, is given command of his own team of misfits and pitted against the Vahlin’s forces in a war whose casualties are millions-to-one. Can Joe keep his group of aliens from killing each other long enough to make them into a battle-ready team? Will he survive long enough to kill the Vahlin? Or is he destined to destroy Congress, as the Trith have prophesized about him?

Planetside Ueshi don’t live long enough to train to be pilots—Congress doesn’t find it cost effective with their short lifespans.  Arius, who knows Ueshi are faster and have better reflexes than the rest of Congressional species, is determined to change that. He joined the Congressional Space Force and collected stellar marks all through basic training—only to be flatly told to pick something else as his specialty. What is a young, cockpit-obsessed Ueshi prodigy to do?  This is the story of how the first Ueshi pilot got his wings, setting the gold standard for all Space Corps flyboys who came after! Parting Gift The Huouyt weren’t the only sentient species that evolved on the Huouyt homeworld. While the Huouyt evolved in the oceans, the single massive continent was home to the Vanun, a species that spent untold millennia in constant struggle with their shape-shifting natural enemies. This is the story of the final days of the war between the Vanun and the Huouyt and how it was brought to an end forever.

After narrowly escaping the Duke of the Nightlands (and leaving Theo at his mercy), Bonnie and the feylord (Tl'oghk'etnaeyen) find themselves reunited with Björn. Barely surviving a run-in with a Fury, Bonnie finally learns to compromise and communicate as they continue their search for Masaaki. In the process, Björn finds out the past may not be quite as he remembers it; Bonnie and Tl'oghk'etnaeyen forge a deeper trust and understanding of each other; and Theo ends up in an uneasy alliance with a brainwashed Inquisitor. But even as new, fragile partnerships are formed, a malignant demigod is getting closer to seeing his evil plans come to fruition. Will Björn and Tl'oghk'etnaeyen each find a way to end their miserable curses? Or will Bonnie’s hasty alliances crumble, leaving her to face Pestilence alone? Join the suspense...

Guest narrator, Henry Kramer, graces Tales from the Battered Mind with two hand-picked short stories by Sara King, herself! "The Golden Directive": Collin's company has given him a directive to kill Marcus Golden. But if he does, the entire rebel structure will collapse. Besides, Collin's been fighting a different war -- a war with his programming. "The First God of Fire": A Legend of ZERO origin story! The Ooreiki and seven other cultures have, after a long and bloody battle, finally bested the fearsome Jreet. With only a few Jreet survivors asking to parley, the Ooreiki meet with their allies to discuss a final solution...

Earth is in the middle of an apocalyptic time-out. PlanOps Prime veteran, universal hero, and living legend Joe Dobbs has become an icon of heroism to the Congressional citizenry—but his real adventure is only just beginning. Humanity, unwillingly drafted into the alien Congress during its invasion of Earth seventy-four turns before, has done the unthinkable; building devastating genetic weapons that can kill even the oldest Dhasha with ease, planning to take the fight for its freedom to the very Regency itself. Before it can, however, the alien government discovers Humanity’s plans and retaliates swiftly, killing the experiments, destroying the labs, and reducing Earth’s technologies back to its Stone Age days to serve a Sacred Turn of penance for its sins. …Or does it? As Joe discovers, one lab gets overlooked in the chaos of Judgment. Its leader, Twelve-A, is determined to keep his fellow experiments alive—even if it means coercing a jaded, iron-faced Congie into helping them…

The Baga are under attack. When the savage, bloodthirsty miga continue to multiply on the planet Blekk, Ifan fears for the survival of his much smaller, meeker race, the Baga. When strange new visitors arrive in odd flying shelters and speaking a language Ifan does not understand, they save him from the miga, but he knows nothing of their intentions … Little does Ifan know, these visitors are on Blekk looking for a sentient race. If they do not find one, the planet will be terra-formed with all life forms to be wiped out – save for a small sample of each native species to be sent to the intergalactic Naturals Preserve. Of course, the Baga are sentient. Unlike the stupid miga. It’s up to Ifan to figure out a way to communicate with these visitors and prove his sentience and that of his people. If he can’t, his home, race, and entire planet will be annihilated. On the plus side, so would the miga. But that’s a large price to pay …

Two young friends returning home on a routine hunting trip scramble for survival, chased by creatures of legend and nightmare. Can young Will and Rum live to see their journey completed, or will they vanish forever, trapped within the unforgiving clutches of nature?

Dr. Charlie Newcastle invented a radical new technology that changed the world, making commutes, trains, highways, shipping, and airlines obsolete. What he wasn’t counting on, however, was his new creation falling into the hands of terrorists. Can Charlie go back to his hay day as an inventor to create a brand new technology that can counter the one that altered the course of mankind before it’s too late, or will his greatest creation become the greatest weapon the world has ever seen?

A hunted, near-extinct brain parasite has fallen in love with a member of the species that exterminated his people, and he hasn’t yet told her what he really is. Now he’s desperate to keep her safe while holding onto the love they share. Can their love survive his brutal past, or will telling her be the biggest mistake of Stuart’s long life?

WARNING! Incomplete, UNSTABLE audio. Listen at own risk! Raw audio of upcoming audiobook No edits - includes chatting, mess-ups, cursing and laughing Available for a limited time! (Until complete version is published to Audible) Guardians of the First Realm, Alaskan Fire: Finally — an Alaskan fantasy adventure written by a lifelong Alaskan! Blaze MacKenzie is a brand new heiress who just discovered that her ‘parents’ actually found her abandoned as an infant in a bizarre human sacrifice in the woods. Along with that news came a six hundred thousand dollar check, a strange golden feather, and the ability to move to the Alaska Bush and begin her dream-life living off the Grid. But unfortunately for Blaze, something else was there first, and he's not willing to move... Paranormal Romance / Werewolves & Shifters Fantasy For lovers of Contemporary Fiction and Romance, Werewolves & Shifters, Mythological Fantasy, Paranormal & Urban Fantasy, and Adventure Fantasy, Alaskan Fire is a fresh new look into the myths and monsters of old. A Contemporary Werewolves & Shifters romance for adults, but also suitable for mature Teen & Young Adult readers.

"Fairy" Dallas Kay is a prodigy.  A phenomenon.  A pain in the ass.  As a wunderkind pilot for the Utopian Space Corps, Dallas can do no wrong... Or can she? Faced off against the greatest pirate the galaxy has ever known, a pilot with skills that rival her own, Dallas finds herself in hotter water than ever. Will her skills at the throttle save her ass yet again, or is she doomed to be a desk jockey the rest of her life?  Or maybe an icy ball of space wreckage, floating in space to bump against some unsuspecting trader's front windshield... That too. This short story is set in the Millennium Potion universe, using characters from the books. "The Sheet Charmer of Broketoe" Nerys Ganlin is an untrained auldling of vast power,  a forgotten class of Auld the likes of which hasn't been seen in many generations — whose magic unfortunately only works on cloth.  Crippled as a magic user, faced with a terrifying threat of a soul-thief from ancient lore surfacing in her tiny town, with all other help vanquished or too far away to arrive in time, can Nerys alone conquer her handicap and save her village... or will she lose everyone she loves in the battle that follows? Set in Sara King's Aulds of the Spyre fantasy universe.

WARNING! Incomplete, UNSTABLE audio. Listen at own risk! Raw audio of upcoming audiobook No edits – includes chatting, mess-ups, cursing and laughing Available for a limited time! (Until complete version is published to Audible) The most fearsome aliens in existence just allied with the universe's most deadly psychopaths, and all hell is breaking loose. It's been 53 turns after the legendary Commander Zero graduated as a Congie warrior. Joe, now a battle hardened veteran, has spent his life surviving wars he had no right to survive. Yet his real test is coming: New forces are conspiring to start a great war like the universe has never seen, one that would rip apart the very fabric of Congress. Joe is conscripted to fight the very war everyone has been fearing since the rise of the Dhasha — the war against the legendary Dhasha Vahlin. Unfortunately for Joe, at the same time, other ruthless powers are conspiring to kill him before he fulfills the prophecy of the Trith. To fight the Vahlin, a desperate Congress comes up with a tactic it abandoned millennia ago—the use of multi-species groundteams. Joe, now a Prime Commander, is given command of his own team of misfits and pitted against the Vahlin’s forces in a war whose casualties are millions-to-one. Can Joe keep his group of aliens from killing each other long enough to make them into a battle-ready team? Will he survive long enough to kill the Vahlin? Or is he destined to destroy Congress, as the Trith have prophesized about him? The Legend of ZERO: Zero Recall is the exciting continuation of the ZERO series, sure to delight fans of Science Fiction Adventure, Alien Sci-Fi, Space Exploration, First Contact, Galactic Empire, Military Space Fleet, Apocalyptic, and Space Opera Science Fiction.

Lullaby at the Rubble Heap The machines have taken over, and Charlotte is in a fight for her life when she meets an archaic progenitor of the machines that are even then wreaking havoc on her planet's surface.  Can she overlook a lifetime of fear in a time when they both need it most? Dead Tired Rick's old, dead, and tired of being a vampire.  He's about to end it all when a screaming orgasm changes everything. © 2016 Sara King ℗ 2022 Soundbooth Theater

Trimmings After her husband dies in his mistresses arms and her home is burglarized, Susan finds that the only thing left to her is a pair of her husband's old nail clippers. She Bites What do you do when your lover corners you on a cruise ship? You kill him, of course. So why wasn't Miles dead yet? And why was Megan having second thoughts? Killing should come naturally to a vampire like her. © 2016 Sara King ℗ 2023 Soundbooth Theater

WARNING! Incomplete, UNSTABLE audio. Listen at own risk! Raw audio of upcoming audiobook No edits - includes chatting, mess-ups, cursing and laughing Available for a limited time! (Until complete version is published to Audible) For lovers of unforgettable shapeshifter fantasies, intense Alaskan adventures, and hilarious paranormal romances, Alaskan Fury is an award-winning stand-alone novel that leaves readers breathless to the very last page... Long ago, Kaashifah the Fury, Chosen warrior of the Lord of War, fought a djinni to a stalemate in an ancient duel of souls. Three thousand years later, she and ‘Aqrab, the passionate djinni prince of the Fourth Lands, are still bound together, each waiting for the other to make that final, killing blow. To complicate matters, they are being hunted across the vast Alaskan wilderness by a team of holy soldiers who are specially trained—and highly successful—at capturing the numerous magical beings of the Five Realms. In order to save their friends from the Inquisition, some compromises must be made…and some boons given. But in unraveling the magics that bind them, will these two ancient immortals learn to trust each other, or will their own thawing hearts be their undoing? ALASKAN FURY is a whirlwind tale of two immortals woven together by a three-thousand-year-old curse who are forced to flee across the Alaskan wilderness in search of dragons to save their friends. It is a story of love and adventure, of djinni wish-makings and brutal sword fights, of Inquisitional wits and mythological heroes, of depth of spirit battling bigotry and violence. Fast-paced and full of action, it will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page.

Master and slave. Captor and captive. Auld and Auldhund. The relationship between the magical Aulds and their beast-like Auldhunds is a dismal shell of what was once a deep kinship. Defying what is certain death, Auldhund Wulmaer makes his escape and seeks refuge in the forests beyond his caged existence. But will he manage to stay ahead of the malicious Aulds on his trail? © 2016 Sara King ℗ 2023 Soundbooth Theater

Hannah and her younger, idealistic sister Amy get more than they were expecting during a camping trip to the glaciers of Alaska. © 2014 Sara King ℗ 2023 Soundbooth Theater

When Janette pulls a mysterious key from a New York gutter after another hellish day, it seems to unlock the life of joy and riches she so justly deserves. However, with a dangerous stranger in hot pursuit, she soon finds herself paying the ultimate price ... © Sara King ℗ 2023 Soundbooth Theater

Murder... Mystery... Mayhem... Frogs? Find out who croaks first. © Sara King ℗ 2023 Soundbooth Theater

Bic-Man Henry needs a writing instrument. Desperately. He finds one. But this is no ordinary Bic pen. Cheap Real Estate In this housing market, sometimes a deal is too good to be true. In this thrilling tale of fear and temptation, one must always remember the cardinal rule of real estate: buyer beware... © Sara King ℗ 2023 Soundbooth Theater

WARNING! Incomplete, UNSTABLE audio. Listen at own risk! Raw audio of upcoming audiobook No edits – includes chatting, mess-ups, cursing and laughing Available for a limited time! (Until complete version is published to Audible) For lovers of Science Fiction Adventure, Action, First Contact, Military, and Space Opera, Zero Marked is a thrilling ride through Zero's first days as a Congie PlanOps graduate... Two turns after the events of Forging Zero, Rat and Joe finally finish their PlanOps training and get orders to their first duty station--a hellhole Bagan planet called Blekk--but first, a little good old fashioned R&R! Joe and Rat get set loose on the Ueshi pleasure planet of Kaleu with fourteen days and five turns' worth of credits burning a hole in their pockets, and they plan to make full use of it! But this wouldn't be a Legend of Zero if Zero didn't do something legendary, now would it? One would certainly think that a 15 day vacation to an Ueshi pleasure planet would be nothing but peace and relaxation... However, when Baga are involved, a lot can go sideways--especially when one of Joe's groundmates is a numbers-crunching, gambling-obsessed savant fixated on beating the house! Kidnapping, assassination, a splash of gratuitous violence, nailbats... Can Zero save his teammates from the bowels of a casino and salvage his vacation before time runs out? Will Rat get her revenge, or will her competitive streak go too far? Come enjoy the latest installment in the Legend of ZERO! Note: This is a stand-alone anthology. It contains a 66,000 word novella of Rat and Joe's first (chaotic) taste of freedom after graduating from PlanOps, as well as 4 ZERO world short stories averaging about 10,000 words each. This book is an stand-alone to the ZERO series and can be read in any order. The main novella sets up the next ZERO book to be published in June 2022, Mission Zero: Swarm.

Asana has always been fascinated by the mystical creature, the Sphinx, ever since her childhood days when her grandmother would tell her stories of their power. Now she must put her life on the line in order to protect them from their biggest threat: Humanity.

Lynet delves into the highlands on a desperate mission to find her former mentor and friend, the last Wisher. But when they reluctantly team up to defeat a mortal enemy, she finds that the power she seeks may come from the unlikeliest of sources.

WARNING! Incomplete, UNSTABLE audio. Listen at own risk! Raw audio of upcoming audiobook No edits – includes chatting, mess-ups, cursing and laughing Available for a limited time! (Until complete version is published) In this apocalyptic addition to the #1 Bestselling Legend of ZERO series, the PlanOps Prime veteran, universal hero, and living legend Joe Dobbs has become an icon of heroism to the Congressional citizenry—but his real adventure is only just beginning. Humanity, unwillingly drafted into the alien Congress during its invasion of Earth seventy-four turns before, has done the unthinkable; building devastating genetic weapons that can kill even the oldest Dhasha with ease, planning to take the fight for its freedom to the very Regency itself. Before it can, however, the alien government discovers Humanity’s plans and retaliates swiftly, killing the experiments, destroying the labs, and reducing Earth’s technologies back to its Stone Age days to serve a Sacred Turn of penance for its sins. …Or does it? As Joe discovers, one lab gets overlooked in the chaos of Judgment. Its leader, Twelve-A, is determined to keep his fellow experiments alive—even if it means coercing a jaded, iron-faced Congie into helping them…