M. R. Mathias

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March 13, 2025

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My new Devious Arcana series is written like The Legend of Vanx Malic, with several 275-325 page books, instead 600-800 like Wardstone and Perpetual Fantastica. The main...

M. R. Mathias

M. R. Mathias cares for his wife, a Breast Cancer Warrior who has Parkinson's. After raising two boys into fine young men, they and two dogs split their time between a modest smalltown home, and an apartment built on a floating dock on Lake Ultura (aka Lake Texoma) which foots into an amazing State Park brimming with all sorts of wildlife. Like the wizards of old, he tends to the animals who share the area and inspire the creatures in his...

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Nefarious Allure: Devious Arcana - Book One

Book #1 from the series: Devious Arcana

Set in the massive, fully detailed world of M.R. Mathias’s million selling: The Wardstone Trilogy, comes an original epic fantasy series featuring brand new characters, thrilling adventures, and familiar places.

Braiden Thane, an orphaned Seaward City cobble rat, helps Big Bolly Boreck collect debts and keep tabs on those who owe their various...

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Reluctant Deception: Devious Arcana - Book Two

Book #2 from the series: Devious Arcana

When Grimm the Marauder’s pet wizard Kizzon Ahlm, destroys everything Braiden Thane loves, Braiden finds himself trapped somewhere in history for days with out food or even water. When someone he couldn’t expect gets him released they must face the evil wizard and his feral giant again, but this time in the distant past, and with the help of...

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Perilous Defiance: Devious Arcana, Book-Three

Book #3 from the series: Devious Arcana

When the malevolent pirate wizard Kizzon Ahlm uses dark sorcery, and the blood of Lady Cecelia's mother to trace her and Lord Braiden through time, the stakes could not be higher, for the duo took the enchanted key needed to unlock Grimm the Marauder's legendary treasure vault. The only key.

With every pulse-pounding moment, they encounter...

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Series

The Sword and the Dragon (The Wardstone Trilogy Book 1)

Other Writing

An Introduction to Xak Stellar

An Introduction to Xak Stellar M. R. Mathias wrote a half million-word fantasy series (actually several of them) but one series in particular, was filled with sexual connotations, graphic sexual situations, and enough vivid detail describing battle scenes, wounds, and adult oriented motivations, it was unsuitable for anyone under the age of 17. That series did pretty well in its day, but the material is so compelling, and the storyline outside the adult content and gore, so well thought out,...

The Blood of Coldfrost

by M. R. Mathias

by Michael Robb Mathias Jr.

The concussive "whoomp" of an exploding oil keg brought the encampment awake. A ball of flame roiled skyward bathing the sparkling tundra of Coldfrost in an orange-yellow glow. Men were scrambling. Large mannish forms, more feral than not, darted about the shadows unchecked. The battle roar of a breed beast cut through the frigid night as it brought an ax down into the head of a Westland...

The First Dragoneer (Full Novella) Free

The First Dragoneer

by M.R. Mathias

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“So what are you gonna do? Have you decided yet?” Brendly Tuck asked his best friend.

They had known each other all seventeen summers of their lives. Brendly hoped that since he didn’t have the option of getting out of Prominence Valley as March Weston did, his best friend would decide not to leave. It was a small hope though, because Brendly couldn’t remember March ever talking about anything else. March was always...