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Under the Vault of Heaven

A queer, genderbent retelling of the Chinese classic novel Journey to the West. 

Demi-god and incorrigible troublemaker Sun Zeha is four years into a lifetime sentence of being crushed under a mountain when Sana stumbles into her prison cave. The unfortunate nun is on a heaven-sent mission to fetch sacred texts. Believing Zeha a demon in need of reform, Sana offers to release her in exchange for protection as she lost her bodyguards to a hungry tiger. Zeha agrees with the intention of walking away. Freeing Zeha gives Sana control of a shock collar that binds their lives together. Despite this rather unhappy start to their relationship and Sana’s incessant moralizing, the journey isn’t all unpleasant. For one thing, they pick up some fun travel buddies: Paoma, a young dragon who needs to prove his worth, Ping, a consistently drunk godling who wants to reunite with her divine family in the heavens, and Jin, a reformed pirate. Still, Zeha’s frustration with Sana builds until she simply wants to finish the quest so they can go their separate ways. But even that might require Zeha to confront her past, her identity, and the reason she ended up under the mountain. 
Under the Vault of Heaven

Floating Isles
  1. Quests and Quandaries
  2. Portents and Poor Sense
  3. Riffraff and Royalty
  4. Saints and Sinners
  5. Tyrants and Troublemakers
Midlands
  1. The Dragon King
  2. The Ikern Shards
  3. Rise of the League
  4. Divisions
  5. Shades of the Past
Lands Beyond Time
  1. At the Broken Places
  2. Through the Labyrinth
  3. Crooked Timber
  4. Dance of Shadows
  5. Dust Descend
Extinction Squad
  1. Into the Void
  2. Into the Abyss
  3. Into the Maelstrom
Lost Gods
  1. Spirits of the Lost
  2. City of the Forgotten
  3. Fury of the Fallen
Singularity
  1. Games of Chance
  2. Paths of Providence
Guardians
  1. Paladin
  2. Shadows
  3. Prophecy
  4. Guardians
​The Seventh
  1. A Rising Storm
  2. A Gathering Force
Transporter Chronicles
  1. The Island of Souls
​The Grandmaster
  1. Phantom
  2. Legacies
  3. Illusions
Rathford (Eleven Realms)
  1. The Hunter
  2. Hounded
  3. Ascendant
Kern (Eleven Realms)
  1. Bonds of Magic
  2. Chains of Gold
  3. Matters of Principle
The Chronicles of the Immortal Warrior
  1. The Resistance
  2. The Black Knight
  3. The Olympians
The Final Gate
  1. The Final Gate
  2. The Dark God
Stand Alone Books
  1. Honor Among Thieves
  2. Threads
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