Nick Wisseman: 5 books

Everyone in Dzune had always assumed Tay could read fates, that her milky eyes let her see what others couldn't. Villagers brought gifts in exchange for her wisdom and treated it as the ironclad word of the Sun Father. There was only one problem: Tay couldn't actually see the future. Not...

A fate-reading dancer struggles to make her most important vision come true; four outcast shamans are summoned to a green pyramid. Before Saint’s Summit contains two novellas: The Battle Dancer and The Ascenders. An earlier version of each won an honorable mention from the Writers of the...

Charles wasn't ready for this. He knew working at a group home for mentally handicapped residents—many of whom have additional diagnoses like Down syndrome, Tourette’s, and paranoid schizophrenia—would be hard. The hours would be long, the pay would be low, the food would suck. But he had no idea how much he'd like it. Or how much he'd grow up while he worked there.

On a summer day atop the Messippi pyramid of Saint’s Summit, an original man known to some as Naysin and many more as the Red Wraith fulfilled a vision by summoning four lesser shamans to meet him in one moon’s time. When they arrived, he froze them in midstride and peered into their memories....

Unwilling saviors, fumbling gods, speechless leaders, helpless villains, misguided detectives, abandoned heroes, misled daughters, repentant adulterers, murdered authors, jilted conquerors... These are my outcasts. And these are their stories. The following were originally published...