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Young Adult
The Wings
of Winter (epic fantasy)
The House
of Many Doors (ghost story)
The Between
(Changeling fantasy)
Future
Tense
Adult
MindBlind
(scifi/thriller)
Heal
Thyself (Fantasy/Romance)
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| The
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Until
the massacre of her foster family, Sparrow Weaver believed the
outlandish stories of Aliud shape shifters were just fairy tales to
scare the village children. Her own odd ability to understand the
language of birds was just part of the mystery of her birth. Now
legends tangle with political intrigue as Sparrow is propelled to the
center of a conflict that threatens the stability of both Human and
Aliud worlds.
Fleeing the destruction of her
village, Sparrow, finds an ally in Owen, Crown Prince of Tremont. Their
common enemy is Elias, an Aliud shape shifter and Sparrow's uncle.
Elias has engineered the deaths of ruling monarchs in both Human and
Aliud kingdoms. In the ensuing chaos, he exploits fractures within
Aliud society and the Humans' fear of the shape shifters to push the
races toward war.
Sparrow is heir to power
that Elias needs. Because she is half-human, many of the Aliud see her
as a threat and an abomination. Because she is half-Aliud, many in
Tremont doubt her loyalties, mistrusting her relationship with Owen. To
oppose Elias and help Owen prevent Tremont’s destruction, Sparrow must
harness her latent Aliud abilities even as her growing power estranges
her from the human life she once knew and the prince she has come to
love.
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| The House of Many
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"Last night I dreamed about the house again."
Langdon Rene Parker, Jr. was never any good
at drawing until his artist
father disappeared. Suddenly, Parker creates perfect reproductions of a
house he’s seen only in nightmares. He fears his father is trapped
inside it, wandering through a hallway lined with identical doors.
Talking about ‘the house that swallowed his father’ freaks his mother
out, leads to appointments with a shrink, and earns him
the nickname “Ding-Dong” Parker.
When he is
assigned to tutor fellow high school student Julia Epstein, Parker
discovers they have the house
in common--her family owns a sketch of it drawn by his missing father.
Convinced that his father is alive, Parker becomes increasingly
obsessed with the house, pulling Julia into his quest to find it. What
they discover drives them to challenge the house for his father’s life
even as they risk disappearing behind one of its many doors.
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The
Between
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High
school senior Lydia Hawthorne is less than grateful when Oberon has her
snatched from the Mortal world and she finds out she's actually Fey.
And not just any Fey, but a trueborn Fey with enough inherent magic to
tip the balance between the warring Bright and Shadow courts. She
discovers the long simmering conflict between Oberon and Titania is
over far more than political power: the Fey are dying out and need
access to the Mortal world to produce children. The court Lydia allies
with will thrive; the other will slowly dwindle.
But that's
their game and she doesn't want to play by their rules. Together with
Clive Barrow, a Bright Court Fey with embarrassing ties to the Mortal
world, Lydia fights to regain her old life. The Fey get far more than
they bargain for when Lydia fuels her magic with the very Human power
of love and loss, challenging Oberon, Titania, and the essential nature
of Fairy itself.
First draft snippets and
process about "The Between" can be read on my blog.
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Future Tense
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In the ten years since his parents died in
a fire he predicted but
couldn't prevent, seventeen year old Matt is trying to stay out of
trouble, biding his time until he ages out of foster care. All he wants
is for the world to leave him alone so he won't be tortured by seeing
someone's future he's powerless to change anyway. But his plans for
keeping himself aloof fail when he interrupts a vicious attack on
Amara, a girl from his school. Despite his best attempts to push her
away, he can't ignore the connection they've formed. That's when
glimpses of her dangerous future start to invade the present —
a future he fears he is responsible for. Now Matt has something to lose
again . . . and something to fight for.
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MindBlind
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A
lifetime of 'passing' as a mindblind has saved Isabel Jepsen from the
treatment for hyper empathy that left her older sister Kathryn
self-centered and emotionally stunted. When Kathryn becomes an
unwilling subject in a government sanctioned medical experiment, Isabel
must reveal the truth of her hidden nature to the man she loves and
ally herself with the psychiatrist who pioneered the treatment she has
been avoiding all her life. Isabel risks far more than her anonymity in
the race to save Kathryn. If the man who took her sister discovers
Isabel is also an empath, she fears she will become his next test
subject.
"MindBlind" is an 80,000 word thriller set
in a near-future Boston.
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| Heal Thyself |
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Lilliane
Tor, a renowned healer from Rimland, learns the cost of keeping her
oath when she defies guild orders and saves the life of Jahnissim Hal
Zev, a member of the nomadic and insular Tisreen. A fugitive from her
own land, she escapes to Tisreen with Zev and enters a bewildering
world of a rigid religion and culture, where women's roles are tightly
controlled and political disputes are settled on the edge of a blade.
And where hudessh, or The Divine obligation, is as binding as any
healer's oath.
That Zev owes his life to a
woman, and one who doesn't follow his beliefs challenges the
foundations of his identity. When he finds evidence of an illegal slave
trade poisoning the heart of both their countries, Zev must learn to
trust Lilliane, working with her against a common evil. Their quest to
unravel the truth and expose the trade threatens their lives, the
stability of two governments, and the core of their own beliefs about
one another.
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