SHORT STORY / MAGICAL REALISM / FANTASY
"Forget Me Not" is a short story featured in the Of Fate & Fury: A Deadly Sin Anthology. Forget Me Not features the character Naomi who represents the sin of "Greed" in this uniquely spun tale of forgiveness, lost love, found family, and redemption. Naomi has known many lives throughout the centuries and has gone by many names. Forget Me Not follows her on her journey for closure as she closes the door on the past and tries to set things right as she looks to the future. But memories always haunt us, especially when they belong to those you love most.
Audience: Young Adult to Adult
Content Warnings: Death, Loss of Family, Minimal Swearing
SHORT STORY / SOUTHERN GOTHIC FANTASY
"Like Flies to Honey" is a short story featured in the Forbidden Delights anthology. Like Flies to Honey follows Josephine "Jo" Dunn as she returns home from a century of banishment. The only thing on Jo's mind after a dark and tragic event in her past is revenge. Even if that revenge comes at the cost of her own soul.
NOTE: Like Flies to Honey comes from the world of Project Glade Witch, set in the humid and wild Florida Everglades. This story, while set in a modern world, bears hints of an old haunted south, brining traditional fantasy elements and merging them with the supernatural in this tale set in the Author's home state.
Audience: Adult
Content Warnings: Death, Loss of Family, Minimal Swearing, Blood, Mentioned Loss of Child.
HIGH FANTASY / SWORD & SORCERY / ADVENTURE
Project Chosen is a high fantasy adventure novel (with romantic subplots) following three protagonists and their journeys in the aftermath of one of the realms most prolific rulers. Upon the death of the Chosen of Myridan, one of his heirs must rise to take his throne and protect the realm from a forgotten threat, thousands of years old and nearly forgotten from the world.
Axia Blackburn, one of the Chosen's heirs, does not want the throne, nor the responsibility that comes with it, if such responsibility still exists in this world of forgotten magic and history. Her loyal Guardian, Reeve Elba, is eager to do his duty to both Axia and his people, but when events separate the two, he is left spiraling on a dark path of revenge as he tries to discover who he is without her. Meanwhile, a wandering prince from a neighboring kingdom, Merryk Girard, is in search for answers to a blight plaguing his brother's kingdom. Hoping to clear his name and a deadly bounty on his head, Merryk's path crosses with Axia and the two trek down a deadly path, fates entangled, to bring stability to their world, or usher in chaos.
Book Type: Book 1 of the Chosen Duology
Audience: New Adult to Adult
Content Warning: Violence, Blood, Death, Some Mature Situations, Brief Allusion to Suicide
SOUTHERN GOTHIC FANTASY / SUPERNATURAL / ROMANCE
Project Glade Witch enters into a modern but hidden world set in the region of the Florida Everglades. Hidden from the rest of the world, the people of the Glade thrive in this patch of land that was gifted to them by unknown magical benefactors. Here, a "new world" blooms and thrives and old magic is becoming a relic too easily forgotten.
Josephine "Jo" Dunn returns home against the wishes of her coven from a century-long banishment in hopes of not only exacting her revenge, but upsetting the stagnant balance of the world she grew up in. Will Forsyth, meanwhile, has been spending the last century trying to redeem his sins in solitude, separated from those who rejected him due to his deadly choices.
When Jo's return shakes the foundations of everything the Glade has ever known, power is up for grabs and everyone is looking to claim a piece of it.
Book Type: Standalone of the Descendants of the Glade
Audience: Adult
Content Warning: Violence, Blood, Death, Some Mature Situations, Sexual Themes, and Loss of Family/Child
DARK ACADEMIA FANTASY / ROMANCE
Project Burn is a dark academia fantasy set in a fictional world with a backdrop akin to the 1930s of our world. Set at the prestigious Litchgate Institute for Advanced Magical Students (aka LIAMS) Morwenna investigates the mysterious death of her best friend, Amelia, during just before finishing their undergraduate studies abroad. Amelia's eldest brother, James, is also quietly looking into his sister's death and suspects Morwenna, because of her family's ignoble background, was involved.
Book Type: Book 1 of the Burn Duology
Audience: New Adult to Adult
Content Warning: Some Mature Situations, Sexual Situations, Allusions to Death and Self-Harm, Depression and Terminal Illness.
HEIST FANTASY / GASLAMP FANTASY / ROMANCE
Project Nightdwellers takes place in a fantasy world where magic exists in every human being, being ruled only by day and night. The Luminari (magic wielders during the day), and the Nocturna (magic wielders in the night), live separate lives in the same world, ruled only by the rise and fall of the sun.
15 Years after the violent coup that overturned a tyrant Nocturna king, the Luminari hold power over the world and those who dwell both in the day and the night. When the Luminari Princess goes missing, the heir to the throne -- Solomon -- seeks out the help from Nocturna's criminal underbelly, specifically recruiting a crew of individuals to help locate his sister and stop those who seek to unleash chaos on a finally peaceful realm.
Lux, a Nocturna conwoman reluctantly works with the client, Prince Sol to use her unique talents to shake up both day and night in order to locate the missing princess. Sol bears a secret from both of their pasts but a without the missing piece, their fates may continue to remain the shadows. And the realm may yet again face another coup.
Book Type: Book 1 of the Nightdwellers Trilogy
Audience: New Adult to Adult
Content Warning: Some Mature Situations, Sexual Situations, Violence, and Loss of Family.
GASLAMP FANTASY / ROMANCE
More Information Coming soon.
Book Type:
Audience:
Content Warning:
The world of Cass Maren is based on the many projects in the works from this author's mind. Below is a list of projects to explore that are either published, in draft, or in other stages of progress. Members will have the opportunity for early access to these projects, as well as those that may never be published outside of this space.
Members can sign up above.