KC May, SFF author

Novels

The Kinshield Legacy

Book 1 of The Kinshield Saga

All swordsman Gavin Kinshield wants is a few coins to buy a decent meal and warm bed...until a scholar tempts him with a letter written by his ancestor Ronor Kinshield, the last person to see the king alive.

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The Wayfarer King

Book 2 of The Kinshield Saga

Gavin Kinshield has no money or army, but he’s determined to protect his people from the beyonder attacks. With his new power of Wayfarer, Gavin has the ability to journey to all seven realms. To end the invasion, he must travel to the realm of chaos and summon the most powerful beyonder of them all. But can he escape before the beyonder champion kills him, devours his soul and takes his place as Wayfarer?

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Well of the Damned

Book 3 of The Kinshield Saga

A former member of an elite battlers guild, Cirang Deathsblade has a dark past. She sits in gaol, awaiting a sentence for her terrible crimes... but she’s not who Gavin Kinshield thinks she is. In exchange for leniency, Cirang leads Gavin to a centuries-old, hidden journal that holds the secrets of ancient kings and a magical wellspring with its own dark past... and an even more terrible future.

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Kinshield's Redemption

Book 4 of The Kinshield Saga

Dozens have been corrupted by tainted water from the Well of the Damned, including King Gavin Kinshield’s beloved wife. He’s desperate to reverse the water’s effects and restore Feanna to the kind and compassionate woman he married.

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Song of the Sea Spirit

Book 1 of The Mindstream Chronicles

Jora Lanseri always planned on fulfilling her duty. She was to be a wife and mother, nothing more. But when others discover she has the uncommon ability to enter the Mindstream, allowing her to witness any event in the past or present, her fate changes for good.

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Call of the Colossus

Book 2 of the Mindstream Chronicles

Condemned murderer Jora Lanseri is offered a chance at redemption in exchange for her silence. Driven to protect her only remaining brother, she must secretly uncover the dark and hidden forces that are smuggling the life-giving godfruit to Serocia's enemies and perpetuating the long and bloody war.

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Verse of the Vanguard

Book 3 of the Mindstream Chronicles

At long last, Gatekeeper Jora Lanseri has what she needs to unite Serocia’s enemies under a long-awaited peace treaty and end the hundred-years war. But she has opposition. She must battle her nemesis Ibsa Bervoets, who seeks to seize power from Jora and the queen. When the diplomats sent to negotiate the peace fall suddenly silent, Jora is sent to learn what happened to them. On the Isle of Shess, beneath the shadow of the Tree of the Fallen God, she comes face-to-face with a powerful new foe whose only purpose for existence is her destruction.

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Requiem of Reprisal

Book 4 of the Mindstream Chronicles

Gatekeeper Jora Lanseri has emerged victorious once again, despite Dominee Ibsa’s refusal to help. Now Jora must journey to the neighboring city to recover the stolen godheart and bring Ibsa back to face justice for betraying the queen. But when Jora returns to the capital, she finds powerful forces have converged with one goal in mind—to force the Gatekeeper to do their bidding.

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Dirge of the Dormant

Book 5 of the Mindstream Chronicles

Having unleashed the darkness inside her, Gatekeeper Jora Lanseri has chased the enemy from Serocia’s shores. Now at the height of her power, she faces a new challenge—to rescue the abducted king and retrieve the stolen godheart before the war ship carrying them reaches harbor.

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Aria of the Awakened

Book 6 of the Mindstream Chronicles

When Gatekeeper Jora Lanseri learns the princess has been convicted by a vengeful enemy of terrible crimes, she must free the delegates trapped in gold statues on the Isle of Shess to trade for the captured princess. Now, with the enemy warships on her heels, Jora must protect the king while negotiating the princess's freedom... and keep the monster inside her from destroying them all.

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The Lies Dragons Tell

Book 1 of The Dragons of Kudare, co-authored with India Drummond

A mysterious illness strikes down a young woman pledged to the god of the Blessed Empire. Two brothers, as helpless as the healers who say there's nothing more they can do, watch while their sister fades away.

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The Secrets Dragons Keep

Book 2 of The Dragons of Kudare, co-authored with India Drummond

Outcast from the temple, brothers Caden and Deshic journey with their family to the Plains of Fire to seek absolution for their crimes. There they endure cruel punishments under the unrelenting eye of the woman who rules over every soul at the temple compound.

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The Vows Dragons Break

Book 3 of The Dragons of Kudare, co-authored with India Drummond

Reeling from the losses of the past year, the Quelstow family must find a future in the shadow of the Strangbrouden aerie. Caden, haunted and broken, and Rane, in a state of frightening and ever-changing evolution, struggle to discover their place in a fractured world.

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The Whispering Wind

Book 1 of The Mindstream World

For centuries, the Mindstream maintained peace across the realm, enabling justice officers to witness any crime in the past or present. But freedom has a cost. When the living creatures powering the Mindstream were liberated, the global network went dark, shattering the foundation of law and order worldwide.

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Inhuman Salvation

A science fiction thriller

A supervirus threatens to wipe out the human population. The only hope for the future is a cure hidden inside Ryder Stone. Created in a lab and brutalized, betrayed, and hated by humans, Ryder yearns for freedom. Outside, a group of human genetic purists want him dead.

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Neural Override

A science fiction thriller

A master con artist gets a brain implant that forces him to feel guilt. Now he must pull off the ultimate con to prove he's truly changed.

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Short Stories

The Awakening

A science fiction prequel story

When an unidentified man assumed to be brain dead is cut off from medical support by the government, Dr. Benjamin Sykes and his team step in. Ben has invented a treatment for brain disorders that could wake the poor man up from a five-year coma...and potentially change the world forever.

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Novellas

Sole Sacrifice

Legends of Thendylath

Sithral Tyr watched helplessly while three of his children died of a strange illness. When his last remaining son falls ill, he gives up on his clan's shaman and, amid protests from the clan chief and his neighbors, Tyr sets out to find a cure for his son. His journey takes him to a land of danger and debauchery where he's forced to make the ultimate sacrifice in the hopes of saving not just his son but his entire clan.

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Star Fire Gem

Legends of Thendylath

This is the story of how a young Gavin Kinshield, seeking to better the lives of his beloved wife and daughter, came to feud with mage Brodas Ravenkind. Find out why Brodas and Gavin hate each other so much!

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The Trinity of Tides

The Mindstream Adventures

The moment the Mindstream shifted, three lives changed forever.

For over a century, the demigod Retar has guided the twin realms with a steady hand. But in a singular, world-shaking instant of cosmic transition, the divine connection fractured—and three ordinary people were caught in the wake.

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