Realm of Essences series by Francis porretto (chosen one and on broken wings)

Chosen one A child is born to working-class parents in the depressed heartland of New York. From his earliest days, Louis Redmond proves to be a prodigy: brilliant, powerful, and driven to achieve as no other man can. Louis grows to manhood strong in body, mind and conscience. He faces down challenges no other can meet. In overcoming them, he transforms the world -- and the people -- around him without even noticing. Tragedy dogs his steps. Mischances deprive him of family and friends. He hardly has time to recover from one hammerblow before the Fates lash him with another. His parish pastor, the only source of advice and comfort Louis never loses, monitors his maturation with fascination and fear. Louis is not only a wunderkind of the intellect. He is also a trailblazer of the spirit and a natural leader of men. Armies would follow him into the mouth of Hell. With such power comes great danger. But Louis is watched over by one who knows all the ways of Man: Malcolm Loughlin, immortal grandmaster of all things martial. Loughlin has trained the great warriors of the world for two millennia. His wisdom, sufficient to elevate the young champion to the throne of the world, is available to Louis...for a price. It is a price even a Titan would struggle to meet.



On Broken WingsChristine has no memory of her past. She's been made a sexual slave by the Butchers, a gang of vicious bikers. After ten years' agony, she's freed herself by committing murder and earning a faceful of hideous scars. But Tiny, the Butcher king, is obsessed with her. Her sole chance of escaping him lies in trusting a mysterious young man she's just met. She takes a chance, the biggest of her life, on her serendipitous rescuer, and he proves more than equal to the task. But Louis Redmond has a few secrets of his own...and they prove to be just as important to Christine's future as his intrusion into the horror show her life has been... Sequel to Chosen One