A connected world
Each novel follows different characters and places while contributing to a larger story.
The Effect Series · Brett Greenwald
The world
didn't end.
It changed.
Magic has returned. Ancient peoples are awakening. The rules everyone thought they understood no longer apply.
A new world is taking shape, and no creature's destiny is written in its blood.
Begin the journey
The books
BOOK ONE OF THE EFFECT SERIES
The Goblin Effect
Elias Mercer has enough problems without an impossible artifact turning up at his Colorado scrapyard. But an ancient mystery hidden beneath the ordinary world leads him toward Kharvek, House Rhazek, and the vanished Prophet.
As the Return changes everything, Elias discovers that what the world calls a monster may be something else entirely.
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Book TwoThe Troll EffectWhen the Return changes what people see, old assumptions become dangerous. Who gets to decide what makes a monster?
Book ThreeThe Dark Elf EffectA changed world brings old identities into the light. The name dark elf tells you little about the choices a person will make.
Book FourThe Elven EffectAncient peoples return to a modern world that has written its own stories about them. The truth refuses to fit the legend.
Book FiveThe AnswerThe Return has raised questions no one can escape. Some answers may change the world more than the questions ever did.
Book SixThe Pixie EffectIn an Irish village, a pixie and a young ranger confront a changing land, displaced neighbors, and a bond neither expected.
Book SevenThe Imp EffectImps have a reputation long before anyone hears their side of the story. In the world after the Return, reputation is only the beginning.
Book EightThe Werebear EffectOn the Oregon coast, dockworker Owen Bennett survives a night he cannot explain. The enormous bear inside him is only the first mystery.
Book NineThe Kraken EffectOff Newfoundland, a crab boat encounters something that should have remained beneath the ice. Escaping the sea may only be the beginning.
The world of the Return
Old legends.
New consequences.
When the Return transforms the modern world, goblins, trolls, elves, dragons, pixies, and countless others can no longer be dismissed as stories. Some people transform. Others awaken to identities long forgotten. Governments struggle, communities adapt, and ancient powers meet modern life.
Good and evil aren't inherited through blood or determined by race. They are revealed through choices.
Beyond appearances
A goblin may be a hero. An elf may be a villain. Ancient reputations rarely tell the whole truth.
After the impossible
The Return is only the beginning. The real stories are about what happens next.
About the author
Brett Greenwald
Brett Greenwald is the author of The Effect Series, a collection of interconnected fantasy novels exploring what happens when magic, mythology, and modern civilization collide.
His stories begin with the Return, an event that transforms the world and brings legendary peoples and creatures into everyday life. Through characters ranging from goblins and trolls to elves and werebears, Greenwald challenges familiar fantasy conventions, particularly the idea that a person's race or origins determine whether they are good or evil.
Drawing on a varied background that includes military service, education, and a lifelong appreciation for speculative fiction, Greenwald creates stories about identity, belonging, personal choices, and the unexpected consequences of extraordinary events.