Blackguards: Tales of Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues

• FOREWORD by GLEN COOK (Black Company) 
• CAROL BERG, "Seeds" 
• RICHARD LEE BYERS, "Troll Trouble" 
• DAVID DALGLISH, "Take You Home" 
• JAMES ENGE, "Thieves at the Gate" 
• JOHN GWYNNE, "Better to Live than to Die" 
• LIAN HEARN, "His Kikuta Hands" 
• SNORRI KRISTJANSSON, "A Kingdom and a Horse" 
• JOSEPH LALLO, "Seeking the Shadow" 
• MARK LAWRENCE, "The Secret" 
• TIM MARQUITZ, "A Taste of Agony" 
• PETER ORULLIAN, "A Length of Cherrywood" 
• CAT RAMBO, "The Subtler Art" 
• LAURA RESNICK, "Friendship" 
• MARK SMYLIE, "Manhunt" 
• KENNY SOWARD, "Jancy's Justice" 
• SHAWN SPEAKMAN, "The White Rose Thief" 
• JON SPRUNK, "Sun and Steel" 
• ANTON STROUT, "Scream" 
• MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN, "Professional Integrity" 
• DJANGO WEXLER, "The First Kill" 
• ANTHONY RYAN, "The Lord Collector" 
• PAUL S. KEMP, "A Better Man" 
• JAMES A. MOORE, "What Gods Demand" 
• JEAN RABE, "Mainon" 
• BRADLEY P. BEAULIEU, "Irindai" 
• S.R. CAMBRIDGE, ""The Magus and the Betyar" 
• CLAY SANGER, "The Long Kiss" 

This special eBook edition of BLACKGUARDS also includes the anthology companion entitled THE BLACKGUARDS BLACKLIST, thus you get an additional ELEVEN cutting-edge stories by:

• ROB J. HAYES, "To the End" 
• REBECCA LOVATT, "To Steal the Moon" 
• EDWARD M. ERDELAC, "The Muttwhelp" 
• ANTHONY LOWE, "The Lonesome Dark" 
• LINDA ROBERTSON, "Comeuppance" 
• SAM KNIGHT, "The Assassination of Poppy Smithswife" 
• S.M. WHITE, "Telhinsol's Shadow" 
• NOAH HEINRICH, "The Laughing Wind" 
• MIKE THEODORSSON, "Bloody Gratitude" 
• BRENDA CARRE, "Gret" 
• ERIK SCOTT DE BIE, "Angel of Tears" 

BLACKGUARDS plus the BLACKGUARDS BLACKLIST is a collection of 38 spectacular, grimdark, heavy-hitting, epic fantasy tales, most of them set within the proprietary worlds of the authors herein. This is THE massive fantasy collection for the assassin / mercenary / rogue / thief enthusiast.

*Cover art by Arman Akopian. Interior artwork by Oksana Dmitrienko & Orion Zangara.