Xavier Dorison's Books

The Banished King's plans for widespread insurrection and destruction are nearing fruition. Victor and Calixte, on the cusp of finding the miraculous Aurora Spring, have reached a dead end. And Basile appears to have abandoned his family in favor of the enemy camp. With the walls closing in on her and no allies apart from the Francoeur children and her trusted valet, will Aristophania be able to use her powers—and her instincts—to save the Kingdom of Azur?

When an old colonel informs Jonas Crow that the so-called "Ogre of Sutter Camp" is still alive and well, he's not exactly pleased, to say the least. His troubled past from his fighting days in the American Civil War comes back to the surface, forcing Jonas into a man-hunt, and to face his own regrets...

Lieutenant Kazinsky has finally proven his loyalty once and for all to his small band of rebels. The ambush he set for their pursuers with Sergeant Sabiane destroyed their vehicles and even injured their leader, Morvan. But ‘the Puzzle’ never gives up on a prey. Soon, the mutineers must face the hardest choice of all. Continuing means killing other Frenchmen. Stopping means abandoning their friends, maybe even betraying them. In the end, do they even stand a chance of succeeding?

Felix’s meteoric rise to the top has brought him much, but it also cost him dearly. Rachel has left him. His shareholders keep demanding ever more from him. Desperate, horrified, the young man is losing himself – but even that he is not allowed: Simon, the father of the HSE himself, puts him back on the right track by force. Because, in the public’s eyes, Felix is a success story, hope ... And for the HSE, he’s the future of finance.

Thorgal has failed. Despite all his efforts, he wasn’t in time to save his son Aniel, and was forced to look on as sorcery transformed the young, mute boy into a teenager with terrible powers – the reincarnation of the Master of Red Magic. The Viking, convinced there is still a chance, is still not ready to give up. But many threats are converging, from within the city and from afar, and the stakes may be much higher than he imagines ...

In tomorrow’s world, the global economy will rest upon the listing of humans on the stock market. But what sort of price will those whose shares are traded have to pay for their prosperity? The first volume of a painfully plausible trilogy. In a far too near-future, the world’s economy has collapsed. Amidst an unprecedented recession, the only remaining bastion of capitalist prosperity is the new ‘Human Stock Exchange’, where individuals are listed on the market. Felix Fox sells cars over the phone, a poorly paid, thankless, dead-end job. But he is determined to make it big, at any cost. When the opportunity arises to be listed on the HSE, though ... will the cost turn out to be too high?

Undertaker Jonas Crow, along with the English governess Rose and her Chinese maid Lin, have to get the gold-filled corps of old Mr. Cusco back to the mining vein they call 'Red Chance'. They have three days. Three days, a hearse, 50 miles ahead of them, and an entire town of discontented miners to deal with!

A Lovecraftian and claustrophobic Sci-Fi thriller set under water.

The long journey of the Neptune is well underway. Lady Vivian is counting on her associate Long John Silver to take control of the expedition. But Silver doesn’t have enough men to take over the ship, and Captain Hastings doesn’t trust him. In the close quarters of a tall ship, tensions rise; betrayal looms... Blood will be spilled before the vessel reaches the Amazon, and a single act of routine brutality will throw the Neptune into a maelstrom of death.

Undertaker Jonas Crow is charged with transporting the coffin of an ex-miner become millionaire back to the mining vein that made his fortune. The funeral should have been a calm affair, but there's an unexpected turn of events: on the eve of his death, Joe Cusco swallowed all his gold, so as to carry it with him for all eternity. Unfortunately, the secret was leaked, provoking the fury of all the miners of Anoki City. They can't just leave such a fortune to be buried while they're sweating their souls away in the mining shafts! As Jonas says, "death never comes alone...

While the rest of the world thinks she’s dead – again – Kriss is hellbent on rescuing her son Aniel in Bag Dadh. It’s a long trip, though, and the mercenary woman won’t wait. She needs a shortcut. So she decides to climb the legendary Mountain of Time, as it is said it can alter the passage of days. Yet it’s no mere climb she finds, but rather a full-blown quest ... Meanwhile, Jolan must continue the war against Magnus alone ...

The unleashing of an ancient evil and the anti-hero prophesized to stop it.

Swept away by the raging waters of the Raheborg along with Magnus’s armies, Kriss survived. Found and cared for by an herbalist and his apprentice, the queen must now hurry back across the lake-ocean to appear before our king – or the law of the Vikings will strip her of her crown and her hopes of one day using her power to rescue Aniel. But the lake-ocean is difficult to navigate, and before long Kriss finds herself marooned on a decidedly strange island ...

A Lovecraftian and claustrophobic Sci-Fi thriller set under water.

The fate of the secret Kingdom of Azur hangs in the balance, as does that of the world as we know it. Aristophania Bolt is racing against time to thwart the Banished King and find the key to salvation: the Aurora Spring. Along the way, she receives lots of help from the talented if unpredictable Francoeur children. But challenges are mounting, in the form of beguiling foes, a painful past that won't stay buried, and the mysterious Red Mountain, which is polluting bodies and minds. Will their efforts be enough to avoid a future ruled by black Azur?

A Lovecraftian and claustrophobic Sci-Fi thriller set under water.

Asgard, the fallen viking with the iron leg, and Sieglind, a slave girl seeking to change her destiny, trek through the deadly winter landscape with the voracious Krökken in relentless pursuit, struggling to stay alive and to understand why the gods that have already taken so much from them refuse to let up and ease their suffering.

1917. Nivelle – ‘the butcher’ – commands the French Army, and the attacks he keeps ordering are pointless slaughters. The soldiers can’t take it any more. Discontent is turning into rebellion, and a petition is being circulated in secret. When it makes its way to the men of Sergeant Sabiane, something snaps in them, and what begins as a simple cry of defiance becomes a full-blown mutiny when a handful of them decide to take the petition to Paris ...

Lin and Rose have gone their separate ways, so Jonas Crow is left alone with his hearse and Jed, his pet vulture. Winter has set in and there's plenty of work to do—plenty of bodies to bury. When a childhood friend, Sid, looks him up and offers him a dangerous job, Jonas eventually agrees to it. Time, however, changes all things, loyalties included. Sid may not be trustworthy, but he was right about one thing—Jonas is the only undertaker in the Old West crazy enough to go after a corpse in Apache territory.

Drowning in sorrow, regret, and longing—and bottle after bottle of whisky—Jonas Crow can see no future for himself without Rose Prairie, the woman he never even had a chance to love. When word arrives that she may be in Texas, he heads straight there. In the topsy-turvy world of post-Civil War Texas, abortion is legal but firearms are not. When Jonas arrives, he finds a destitute town full of hopelessness and a young crusader on a mission to do God's work and rid the Lone Star State of vice. His reunion with Rose doesn't go as planned, and as is his wont, he finds himself caught up in battle that isn't his, yet one he must nevertheless join if he—and his love—are to have any chance of surviving.

It is the early 1900s and the three Francoeur children are struggling to survive in the slums of Paris. But their lives change forever with the arrival of a mysterious stranger from their father's past. Countess Aristophania Bolt from the Kingdom of Azur claims she has come to help the trio, but between disturbing phenomena—tricks or sorcery?—and invisible threats, it is hard to know whom to trust...

It's 1537. Deep in the lost mountains of Jura, a group of fanatical Catholic mountain people track a young Protestant and his guide. Big mistake. The latter is no other than the ex master-at-arms of Francois I, Hans Stalhoffer. After being defeated in an unfair fight, Hans had decided to exile himself from the court. Some years later, the surgeon that saved his life and his young apprentice ask for his help. They wish to travel undercover to Switzerland to publish the Bible in French. The only possible route is to take the infamous Jura Pass. Hans, who is buried in debt and has become a hardened alcoholic, is willing to sacrifice a few days to guide the two men through the hostile mountains. But when the authorities get wind of the scheme, they launch a wide-scale manhunt. Tracked, injured and cold, Hans will have to surpass himself to win the most difficult fight of his life.

A monstrous sea serpent is terrorizing the Fjördland, destroying one fishing boat after another, eating all on board, and keeping the Vikings from going on their pillaging expeditions. All hope seems lost until a stranger with a dark past and a score to settle with the gods shows up and offers to hunt down and slay the Krökken for a thousand silver talents. Soon a ragtag group of would-be monster hunters boards a drak and, against a divine, ominous Nordic background of lakes and mist and mountains, sets sail on a perilous mission not all will survive.

The unleashing of an ancient evil and the anti-hero prophesized to stop it.

A Lovecraftian and claustrophobic Sci-Fi thriller set under water.

Book's by Xavier Dorison

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