With their backs to the wall the children of the Fillagrou prophecy are forced to fight against seemingly impossible odds. Questions will be answered and mysteries revealed. Lives will be lost, friendships will be tested and the bonds of family stretched to the limit. If the universe is to survive, the ultimate sacrifice must be made. Endings and Beginnings is the final installment in an epic trilogy that follows an unlikely group of children turned heroes and their adventures in a world that seems, on the surface, to have very little in common with their own. Pitted against a tyrant king hungry for vengeance, the fate of the universe rests in their hands.

Remember the weird kid in grade school with a mouthful of paste and britches full of waste? You know, the one that still had an imaginary friend in junior high? That creepy oddball with the belly that made it impossible for him to run a mile in under thirty minutes? The one you knew beyond a shadow of a doubt would one day get caught with a severed head in his freezer? Well, that kid grew up. He grew up, he convinced someone to marry him, he bought a house in the suburbs, he wrote a book, and he even stopped eating paste Goats Eat Cans is his story. In Volume 2, Steven Novak continues to recount the mostly woeful tales of his life in the peculiar way only he can. There are more inappropriate bodily functions, more awkward social mishaps, and a heck of a lot more obscure pop culture references that only the nerdiest of the nerds will recognize. Goats Eat Cans features 56 stories, 56 illustrations, and a carton rendering of his buttocks in a thong. If that's not worth the price of admission, nothing is.

Kelly Kerbey's life is like something straight out of a reality television show: She's dating a gorgeous Hollywood actor, her best friend is a supermodel, and she is the best-selling author of a series of supernatural romance novels that she secretly hates writing. Unfortunately she's attracted the attention of the wrong kind of fan, and that fan is going to make her an offer she literally can't refuse: He's going to force her to help him write a cookbook, and if she doesn't comply she could end up as an entree. Part Tim Burton farce and part Jane Austen voyage of self-discovery, The Vampire Cookbook will make you laugh out loud and take a second look at the strangers lurking in the dark corners.

Long past the Age of Wonder, several thirty-somethings form an unlikely band of adventurers in the fair land of Jaenrye. Can they keep at bay the seemingly inevitable control of a creature determined to destroy the magic they can't bring themselves to believe in? Tom Strausser is a lonely failed musician with a day job he hates. Rose Smith thinks she could be a best-selling novelist, but can't be bothered to spend time writing. Father Rey Lopez was a rising star in the Catholic church until depravity got the best of him. All three of these everyday nobodies are pulled from the world they know and are forced to find out what they're really made of, confronting their own cowardice, malice, and complacency. Will they rise to the challenge, despite themselves?

Athena Falcon, a novice to the order of women warriors known as Travellers, is sent on a mission to obtain relics of great importance to the survival of the land of Jaenrye. Can the adventure prove to her the existence of heroes?
Athena Falcon doesn't believe in heroes or adventures -- at least, not the sort told in old hymns and epics. Those stories served enough to get her Traveller sisters interested in joining the order and learning the skills to deploy on errands for the good of their country, but life didn't work that way. Most of the errands they were sent on were simple tasks, like diplomatic envoy visits to neighboring countries or the occasional rescue of a missing child. True adventure stories, and the need for true heroes, were nothing more than myth.
Athena is sent on her first solo mission with a Canticle -- a ceremony held at Traveller's Rest. She is dispatched to Amhersam, a port town in the south lands, to meet a ship from across the ocean and procure important relics for safekeeping at the Rest. In the process, she meets a magic-man, a monster, and a mysterious child, and she's called upon to become the hero her country needs, when it needs her most.

Having survived their initial excursion into the land of Fillagrou, Tommy Jarvis and the children of the prophecy find themselves drawn into the war once more in a desperate attempt to rescue their old friends. This time however the stakes have been raised - this time there will be no coming back.
Though the Prince of Ocha is dead, his father remains very much alive and his father wants revenge. In order to save their friends the children are forced to meet the tyrant King of the Dark Army head on. Unfortunately the incredible powers they discovered on their first journey may not be enough.
Liars and Thieves in the sequel to Steven Novak's Fathers and Sons, and the second in a trilogy that follows an unlikely group of children turned heroes and their adventures in a world that has nothing in common with their own, against an army of war mongering creatures led by a tyrant king and a young prince that will stop at nothing to see them dead.
The Forts story continues in Forts: Endings and Beginnings

Praise for Liars and Thieves
5 of 5 Stars
"It is a can't put down, not even for sleep, book about adventure, courage, violence, and laughter."- hippiesbeautyandbooksohmy
"You'll be deeply unsettled by the way this ends, I promise you that, and you'll be salivating, grunting, and groaning, and cursing Novak for not having released book 3 already."- MJ Heiser, Author of Canticle
"You feel the blows that are dealt to the characters, you become winded when they run for their lives, and you feel their sorrow and happiness with every turn of the page. He makes you care about these characters as if they were your own friends."- Ryan O'Neil, Author of Plain Old Kirby Carson
"I can't say that I like this book better, but that's because I honestly don't think that I could choose between the two. They go well together in the series, but I think that they could also standalone. There's enough info given in book two that you could read it on its own, but I appreciated it more, having already read Fathers and Sons." - Completelybooksessed
"I love when I can see an author improve writing prowess from book to book."- Owlreviewabook