Once upon a time, Spike went for a walk.

While on his walk, he was judged by an ancient alicorn, lodged with griffons, parlayed with air pirates, charmed a maiden of a mystical race, and dealt with the scourges of hate, fear, and racism while deliberately drawing the armies of myriad nations to the brink of global war.

Once upon a time, Spike went for a walk, and did all of this so that he could keep a promise to the one that meant the most to him... Twilight Sparkle.

In the first of three books, Pillars of the Sun (Chapters 1-15), Spike is devastated by Twilight's fate and grows more and more despondent as he attempts to understand what has happened to his dearest friend. A gentle nudge from a pony he trusts sends him looking for answers. When that nudge becomes a push he unravels ancient secrets... and risks losing himself before his attempt to rescue Twilight can even begin.

The Equestrian Industrial Revolution is in full swing. Rainbow Dash returns to a drastically changed Ponyville and to Twilight Sparkle, her last friend in the city. She must rekindle the bonds of love and friendship before the winds of change render the Elements of Harmony irrelevant. Even in a world of steel, fire and glass, loyalty is needed more than ever.

Twilight isn't having a very good day. An experimental spell blew up in her face, an army of changelings is attacking Canterlot, and she just died. Yet somehow, it looks like it's going to keep going downhill from here.

Given the chance to correct what's gone wrong, Twilight swears she's going to fix all this even if it kills her. Which it will. Frequently.

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After a mysterious and widespread spell causes ponykind to vanish, Fluttershy is left behind to cope with what the future has in store for her and the remains of Equestria.

In a matter of days, the once-prosperous nation begins to descend into a harsh and unforgiving place. While cities crumble around her, Fluttershy finds herself living in a land rife with dangers and heartbreaking reminders. With nopony to turn to, Fluttershy is forced to learn to fend for herself, discover what happened, and, if possible, find a way to reverse it.

Survivor Shy is an illustrated story following Fluttershy in the weeks after a magical cataclysm. While the last pony relives her past, readers are offered a vivid glimpse into Fluttershy's mind and are led on a harrowing journey through the ruins of Equestria and beyond.

Story branches out before Season 3 Finale.

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In-progress Russian translation by Papilion_star available.

Daring Do cannot believe her luck when she is asked to help explore the most ancient tomb known to ponykind. But terrible danger awaits her, for beneath the earth rests something beyond equine understanding.

Warning: comments contain ending spoilers.

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Cold concrete beneath my hooves. Dim light of fluorescent moss growing on the walls. Strange sounds coming from below the floor...

I don't know how I got here. I don't know how to get out of here. There's only one thing I know...

I'm so scared...

Coverart by Bootsy Slickmane, based on an original sketch by me.
Preread by Bootsy Slickmane.

We all know the story of how the Princess’ young student and five friends defeated Nightmare Moon and brought Princess Luna back to our lands. But what if the tale were false? What if the young Twilight Sparkle on the event of her entrance exam had not been rescued by Princess Celestia, but instead lost her mind among the power of her youthful surge and had to be sent away, far away before she could destroy all of Canterlot with her newfound power. Now the feral unicorn prowling the Everfree Forest only vaguely remembers her past, slipping away from constant terrifying attempts to capture her.

And she is beginning to remember what true power felt like.

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Monster in the Twilight (Paperback) 272 pages
Monster in the Twilight (Hardback)

Twilight's day hasn't gone well. Her night is about to get a WHOLE lot worse. Starting with being banished to the Moon...

After a series of unfortunate events conspire to trap Twilight within her own nightmares, Twilight's friends - along with the with aid of Princess Luna - become Twilight's only hope of rescue. Time and Twilight's fears are already against them, but they must also come to terms with how Twilight got there in the first place...

Fifteen foals (and one dragon) believe that they are in for the adventure of a lifetime after a mysterious mare tricks them into playing a game for the future of their world – a game played with one-on-one combat between metal monsters the size of mountains. But all is not as simple as it first appears, and saving Equestria may come at a far greater cost than any of them can bear.

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When the Keshi Empire came, Equestria fell. Their vast armies tore up the ground, their treaded and flying war-machines blackened the skies above. They brought with them an insatiable hunger for the lands natural resources, and a hatred for all things magical.
The ponies of Equestria faced their greatest foe yet... their own kind.
One night, in the first days of the ensuing war, Princess Celestia and the Elements of harmony vanished. Equestria, leaderless and shrouded in a perpetual dusk began falling under Keshi rule. Princess Luna, determined not to allow Equestria to be exiled into darkness as her own evil alter-ego had threatened so long ago led a belligerent and determined resistance against the Keshi... But some hatred is just too strong, and as her resistance fell, Luna, like her sister vanished without trace... leaving Equestria to fall and the silver-black flag of the Keshi Empire was raised above the towers of Canterlot.
15 years have passed since that day... Equestria transformed by years of occupation and shadow has become an industrial powerhouse to fuel the Keshi machine. The world outside the mega-cities an arid wasteland. Life in the cities is hard and the Keshi regime oppressive, but the spirit of Luna still burns within some... and in the run-down fringes of New Equis, a movement is stirring once again...

<Please consider all work to be draft. Chapters could be subject change but I'll try and keep the plot the same as to not create confusion. ;) Comments and suggestions are more than welcome - Thanks.>