Tag: fantasy

Grown from Ashes and Dust

Raven Rossi book two, the sequel to Ravager, is almost here. Pre-order starts tomorrow (Monday 11th) and the release date is September 2nd. Links will be posted soon.

Being raised in captivity by a psychopath didn’t exactly set Raven Rossi up for success in the job market. But, oddly enough, being one of the last members of a species of notorious monsters did.

Raven set out last fall to build a life for herself. And she did. She got a job at a secluded hotel for all things supernatural, made some friends, fumbled through a few failed relationships, got marked as the eternal property of the vampires, and nearly got executed.

It may have been a dark winter, but summer has arrived on the mountain. The surviving staff are dedicated to moving forward with their lives. But the fragile peace is shattered by the sudden disappearance of one of the hotel’s inhabitants and the unexpected return of the hotel’s owner. As if finding her missing friend and dealing with the man who thinks he owns her weren’t enough, both the vampires and the sorcerers have sent people to the mountain to investigate the massacre last winter.

One group sent an inquisitorial squad. The other sent assassins. 

Pre-order is now up!

Holy crap, I am actually ahead of schedule. Please don’t die of shock.

Mage Healer, book 4 in the Mage Blood dark contemporary fantasy series is now up for pre-order on amazon! Official release is Friday May 2nd. It will also be on Kindle Unlimited.

Click the button below and it’ll take you to the amazon page.

Mage Healer

Magic is not for the faint of heart.

Mckenna has never in her life cared about the logistics of a prophecy. In fact, it has never even occurred to her that there are people in the world who specialize in foretelling the future. Why would she? Healing magic has nothing to do with the future.

Most days Mckenna only uses her healing magic to secretly fix her classmates’ hangovers. But when a vacation getaway puts her in a situation where her magic is noticed, Mckenna soon finds herself put up for sale in the notorious Auction House and sold to a mage family that is in desperate need of someone to run their emergency room. The hours may be atrocious, and the pay may be nonexistent, but for the first time in her life, Mckenna has the freedom to use her powers to help people. She can make friends, date, and build a life for herself. But her new world takes a hard turn when a dragon shifter named Dex is brought into her emergency room.

Saving this man’s life will change far more than just Mckenna’s budding love life because the date of Dex’s arrival coincides with the date that a long-standing dragon prophecy suddenly changes. Something has changed the future, and the ruler of the dragon shifters believes it is Mckenna’s doing. He has wiped out entire branches of his own family tree for getting in his way, so he has no qualms about destroying a few more lives if it ensures that the future returns to being exactly how he wants.

Getting out from under the king’s gaze unscathed isn’t an option, but with a bit of resourcefulness and luck, surviving him and returning to the life she was building just might be possible.

Note: As with all of the Mage Blood series, this is a dark contemporary fantasy that follows a woman surviving in a world full of powerful men with some serious control issues. This is not a fairytale or romance.

Trying something new

Hi! Welcome to my experimental blog post. As this is the first and I’m not confident about the mechanics of this site yet, I’m not going to write much today. But here, look at the cute cover for Don’t Pay the Piper.

What is Don’t Pay the Piper, you ask? It is the second book in the Patience Red series. I wrote the first book several years ago. And although I published it in 2023, I didn’t market it hardly at all. It’s a very niche, lighter (compared to my normal darker fantasy content) new adult contemporary fantasy adventure about a young immortal woman named Patience and her attempts to survive the hand she’s been dealt in life long enough to get her life debt marked as paid. It’s got some action, some unknown magic abilities, more than a little accidental trampling of supernatural bureaucracy, and a main cast of found family characters who are near and dear to my heart. So near and dear, in fact, that when I need a break from main projects, I will work on this series.

And through the power of procrastination, the second book is now done. So I’ve decided to put it out into the world for the people who want to know what happens to the crew next. The second story picks up several months after the first leaves off. The crew is back to working odd jobs and attempting to lay low. But laying low is taken off the table when a prison bounty hunter arrives at their door and threatens the group to find Stence’s biological father by the end of the month or else he’ll open an investigation into their adventure last year. So the crew is going back onto the road once again.

Don’t Pay the Piper will be out on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited after Christmas.

If this doesn’t sound like your jam, don’t worry. Our regularly scheduled control issues content is all right on schedule. Mage Healer and Mage Manticore are both well into edits, and the second Ravager book is slated to be out in the second half of 2025.

And… that’s it. That’s the end of my first blog post. Later!