Genre: YA Romantasy
Coming April 2o26
Keylight Books
Caraval meets The Scorpio Races in this lush YA romantasy inspired by historical Florence, Italy and legends of the Medici family.
On the mystical island of Bardia, Bell of Asbury’s sister is dying. A girl with an extraordinary but volatile gift for fusing magical elixirs, Bell was eleven when she accidentally struck her sister, Roza, with a magic that left her with an incurable illness. Six years later, she overhears her sister’s fiancé buying illicit ingredients for a brainwashing elixir. Alarmed, Bell tries to end the engagement, but Roza’s fiancé is from a noble house, the sisters’ father is in debt, and their mother is eager to have a connection to a powerful family.
Desperate to find a cure for Roza’s disease and an antidote to the brainwashing elixir, Bell uncovers a tangled web of secrets that leads to a man called the Seller of Secrets and his plot to use the brainwashing elixir to force the entire island to obey him. Bell alone can create an antidote, but her experiments risk the sanity of those she loves.
Rian, a dangerously charming spy, offers to help her defeat the Seller of Secrets—for a price. Although she knows Rian is a master of deception, Bell is drawn to him when his façade slips and he shows his true feelings. But as deadly secrets come to light, Bell doesn’t know who she can trust and who is working to control her gift.
Genre: Fantasy Flash Fiction
Havok Publishing
Find my story THE MOON DUCHESS in this captivating anthology from Havok Publishing. Inspired by a series of stories I wrote for #flashfictionmagic featuring Lux and Autumn, THE MOON DUCHESS sets the stage for their first, kingdom-altering meeting. Not to mention gives you a window into the power hungry court that shaped Lux into who he is now.
Genre: Science Fantasy
Status: Currently Drafting
When someone sabotages Birdie’s mechanical wings and she plummets from the floating city of Spiraldown, she needs all her skills to survive the fall and escape the monsters and savages that live in the Timberland below. She’s captured by a band of Timbers led by Forest, a fierce hunter who deeply distrusts Spirals, is determined to use Birdie’s knowledge to free the Timbers from the deadly djenus that stalk them. As Birdie learns what lies beneath Forest’s aggression she’s unable to stop her heart from opening to him. When she learns the truth of the djenus’ origin, she must choose between returning home and saving the people—and the man—she’s come to love. Can she bring Timbers and Spirals together before the djenus destroy them all?
Everything Forest knows about Spirals is shattered when Birdie drops into his hunting camp. Determined to end the djenu threat and drive out the Spirals—the ones who roused the djenus years ago—he drags Birdie back to the Timber village. An encounter with a djenu reveals she has a secret to controlling them, and he’s torn between his mission to protect his village and his growing attraction to Birdie. When the village turns against Birdie, Forest must trust her dream of unity or watch his people be devastated.
Seal up the Stars
Genre: Dark YA Fantasy
Status: Completed, on hold.
Fear not, those who follow His fire, for He shall light your way. The stars that have been sealed up will break free and sing.
Ravenna Lastoria has three days to escape Celidom and its leader, Vitrel. Vitrel keeps the entire city captive under the Ambitus, a vast dome. Ravenna was born with the prophesied Mark of the Tyger, and in three days Vitrel will force her to marry his cruel son and fulfill the dark side of the Prophecy. If she refuses, her younger brother, Brend, will be made to drink the sacred water of Vitrel’s dark god.
In the middle of the night, Jasper, Vitrel’s nephew, kidnaps Ravenna and drags her from Celidom. She’s devastated to leave Brend behind, but she can’t turn back once she learns Jasper’s secret.
There is another side to the Prophecy, but to fulfill it, Ravenna must choose to trust Eloi, the God who gave it.
Together they search the Sharrah Desert for an army strong enough to rescue Brend and crush Vitrel. But what Ravenna and Jasper set in motion may destroy the people they’re trying to save.
Seal up the Stars is Book I of The Great Rescue.
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