Jason’s life has never been easy. As a member of the Urban Survivalists, a group of homeless kids just trying to survive the streets of New York City, Jason’s day is spent trying to steal and scavenge enough to buy food for himself and his friends. Then one day he chases the wrong girl into the trees in Central Park and out of the everyday world. See what brings Jason to that fateful day in Central Park in this prequel to Prisoners of the Keep.

Dusk and Auraus and their band, the Grey Riders, have been trying to determine what is happening to travelers disappearing in the Garrend Mountains. Unfortunately, after being captured in a raid, it looks like Dusk and Auraus might be the ones disappearing. This is the first in a series of Mist Gate Crossings Novellas to chronicle some of the events that occurred before Lise and Jason cross over from our world.

Lise's dream has come true. Another Mist Gate has opened allowing her a chance to go home. Unfortunately, Jason has been kidnapped, a new person has crossed the Mist Gate and Bascom still hunts for Morsca's killer. Home may still be a long way off.

The search to save Jason takes Lise, Heather and Arghen deep underground into a world of slavery, cruelty and torture: the world of the Under-elves. Finding Jason in such a location will take cunning and all of Arghen’s knowledge of Under-elf life. And if finding Jason weren’t enough of a challenge, it seems that a mysterious enemy is following them.

For years Arghen has been the model warrior Under-elf. He trains and battles with the others from his underground city-state. He lives an unremarkable life. Then, one day he mercy kills an enemy soldier instead of capturing the elf for his commander to torture. Stripped of his rank and banished from his home, Arghen must find a new purpose for his life.

After being chased by a mugger through Central Park, Lise stumbles through an odd patch of mist and into a whole other, more magical dimension. With only an elf, a fellow human, and the blessings of a goddess to help her, Lise must find a way to create her own place in this new world.