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Overview: Garon Whited was born in either 1969 or 1970; the original birth certificate is suspiciously unavailable and other records do not agree. After spending some years in college playing role-playing games, he finally settled down into the job of virtual cryptozoologist. His career has spanned uncounted weeks, with an epic lack of recognition in his field. His research into the venomous Arctic Butterfly and his search for the Peanut Butter and Jellyfish are well-nigh legendary. He claims to live in Texarkana, on the planet Earth, but people have been known to disagree with that last part.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy

1. Nightlord: Sunset
"Why do I have to have moral issues with killing someone? I feel like such a hypocrite! It's worse than a vegetarian touting organically grown steaks." (Eric, physics teacher, involuntary vampire, and part-time demon slayer)
Eric didn't ask to be a vampire. In fact he didn't even believe in them. Biting your own tongue with your fangs does a lot of convincing. Even so, being a part-time undead isn't as easy as you might think. It can let you hold down a day job, true, but sometimes the night "life" can be more than a little difficult, what with those bloodthirsty urges and predatory instincts kicking in. Luckily for Eric he can rely on his trusty steed and her unwavering support, his flaming sword and its sarcastic wit, and his own snarky sense of humor.

2. Nightlord: Shadows
It's not easy, being King. Especially when you've got an allergy to sunrise and sunset, a fire-goddess for a mother-in-law, demonic adversaries, random assassins, and a basement full of insecurities to cope with.
Add to that his daughter, the priestess/princess, a couple of lightly-deranged professional magicians, a whole city full of wizards, and enough squabbling princes to resemble a kindergarten argument.
It's enough to make a man want to just go home.
Luckily for Eric, he has the world's largest pet rock, a smart-mouthed sword, and a horse that not only understands him, but likes him anyway.

3. Nightlord: Orb
We all have inner demons. We fight them all the time. Some of us achieve inner peace by coming to terms with them.

But how do you come to terms with inner demons that tear free and become outer demons?
Eric has been a vampire for nearly a century, and his demons are more than metaphors. While they controlled him, he was the Demon King. Now he has to avoid the monsters in his own mind, as well as angry nobles, fanatical religions, assassins, magi, other vampires, criminal organizations, and the neighborhood gossip. He wants two things: To find Tort, and to have someplace to call home. It may be too much to ask.

5. Nightlord: Void
Eric knows it's not easy, being King. Fortunately, he has a Queen for that.

Eric--or King Halar, or Vlad, or any number of aliases--doesn't want to be bothered. It's hard to pin down what he does want, if anything. He lives a quiet life, almost a solitary one, mourning in his own way for the loss of someone dear.
His quiet solitude can't go on forever. Despite the empty places inside him, events and creatures move through the worlds and across the void between, forcing him into action, into fighting, into confronting Things perhaps better left alone...

...even forcing him into being a King.

6. Nightlord: Mobius
Faced with war and the end of the world, Eric--or Halar the First, King of Karvalen--must find a way to stop a godlike entity bent on his destruction. His quest will be no easy thing, not a straight line to his goal, but even he can't anticipate just how far it will lead him on this epic journey. He will have to go farther than he can imagine from everything he has ever cared about before he can even begin a new journey--a journey home.
Can he save the world and the people he loves? And, in so doing, will he be able to save himself?

7.1 Phoebe's Tale: From His Shadow
The first volume of Phoebe, the soulless child!
Phoebe was raised by her adoptive father, Eric--a powerful vampire of the Nightlord breed. Who better to raise a soulless infant than an undead monster?
He did his best to raise her right. He saw to her education, picked a culture for her to grow up in, taught her to use her powers, and took her on tours through a thousand alternate histories--and alternate futures! She learned to shoot, to fight, to cast spells, and to take anything a hostile universe can throw at her.
But there comes a time when every child has to step out of the nest, spread her wings, and fly.
Or fall.
"From His Shadow" is Phoebe's journal, set between Book 7, "Fugue," and Book 8, "Penumbra," of the "Nightlord" series.