Science Fiction/Space Opera

Mercury in Retrograde (A Shot in the Dark 1)

Aralyn Solari spent the last three years of her life in the galaxy’s worst prison after a compromised run ruined her flawless smuggling record five years prior. Now that she’s free and has the promise of an easy job with a ridiculously large pay off, her last gig should be a cinch. As long as she follows the runner’s standard, anyway: get in, get out, get paid. Then, she can spend the rest of her years retired on Earth, hidden away with some well-deserved credits.
All of that changes, however, when she runs into her ex-boyfriend Caden Madigan: the man she suspects of setting her up all those years ago. Now, he’s wearing a UDA badge and uniform, and says that she’s in danger and being set up again. To Aralyn, the benefit of a huge payday outweighs the risks–or so she thinks until her “easy” job turns sour and she ends up wanted for a crime she didn’t commit, her smuggled goods get stolen, and her ship–down to the toilet paper–gets trashed.
Now, Aralyn’s got no choice but to try a last-ditch effort to get her payload back, get her money, and maybe even some closure… which proves difficult when she finds herself caught in a conspiracy that threatens everything and everyone around her. With government agencies and stone-cold killers on her trail, Aralyn’s life has literally become a ticking time bomb. Caught up in lies, revenge, and a harrowing game of blackmail, one misstep could end with her captured, enslaved, or perhaps even worse: thrown back inside the galaxy’s worst prison for the rest of her life, waiting to die.

Grand Cross (A Shot in the Dark 2)

Aralyn Solari has always followed the runner’s standard: Get in, get out, get paid.
But that was before Eladia Galven, the woman responsible for the orachal trade in Sol, went and made things personal by kidnapping Kragg, the man who’d raised Aralyn as his own daughter. Now, after months of searching down every dead-end lead to find him, Aralyn and her team, Caden, Kita, and Riordan, finally have a chance to not only find Kragg, but to track Eladia down and make her pay for what she’s done and all the people she’s hurt.
When they get arrested and brought in for questioning, however, all of that changes. Now, Aralyn and the others have no choice but to work with a UDA informant in order to help bring down a rogue agent or get sent to Tartarys, the system’s cruelest prison.
Becoming unwilling undercover operatives isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be, unsurprisingly, and until they can deliver the necessary goods, they’re on their own.
With rumors of a new, more powerful strain of orachal on the market, Eladia and her people closing in on them, and little time to spare in order to uncover the truth, Aralyn and the others have no choice but to trust the informant, follow the trail, and hope that it winds itself back to Eladia before it’s too late.

Opposition (A Shot in the Dark 3: coming soon)

Urban Fantasy

Cross Faded (Mythos and Pathos 1) 

The last thing Ezra Ashford expects to see in his apartment after waking up from a four-day bender is a woman in medieval armor hunting an invisible scarab the size of a Great Dane. But being an addict can do terrible things to the brain, and while he’s no stranger to hallucinations, this seems a little too real to be just in his head.
Despite the woman’s warnings for him to forget everything he’s seen, Ezra’s once tepid existence is quickly overwhelmed by bizarre monsters. From the siren in his local bar to the fly-faced man packing fish at his day job, he can’t seem to stop seeing these creatures everywhere. Ezra can’t tell if he’s burned out or if he’s going crazy like his mother did years before.
And doing what comes naturally to him—getting high to forget it all—isn’t working either. Ezra soon finds himself in a turf war between two rival dealers that lands him directly in police crosshairs, wanted for arson and murder.
The harder Ezra tries to ignore his problems, the more abysmal things become. And the threat grows substantially graver once he finds out that an ancient monster, Bandon, has taken a sudden and irrevocable interest in him; and that all the others he’s taken a liking to have disappeared to parts unknown, never heard from again.
After a lifetime of running from his problems and chasing down his feelings with every new high, Ezra feels powerless to stop his downward spiral out of control. Lost in a world he feels rejected him and plagued by monsters that may or may not be in his head, Ezra must try to find out what’s happening before it’s too late and his personal demons end up consuming him completely.

The Witch & the Wolfwood (Lies & Legends 1)

Helena Birch is no stranger to the weird and unexplainable. In fact, it’s part of the reason she became a private eye: to turn questions into answers. But Helena’s latest job is unusual enough to leave even a seasoned skeptic like her a little unnerved.
While tracking down straying spouses is pretty typical P.I. work, tailing a woman who left her husband for a magic-worshipping cult is new. And something about this case hasn’t felt right from the start.
From the moment she arrives in Cambria, Helena is haunted by déjà vu and inexplicable dread. Only the promise of a big paycheck at the end of this strange journey keeps her from dropping the case altogether.
But when Helena is abducted by one of the cult’s members and barely escapes with her life, she’s willing to grudgingly admit that she might be in over her head.
With the police on her trail after the death of her kidnapper, the cult hunting her down, and her only ally an unassuming waitress at the local café, Helena knows she’ll need every bit of skill and luck she can muster to get away alive.
Hell, maybe she could even use a little bit of magic…

The Devil & the Dreamer (Lies & Legends 2)

After everything she survived, Helena Birch has more reasons than most to have nightmares. Being a private eye often means airing other people’s dirty laundry, but all she uncovered in her time in Cambria was a whole lot of lies and closets filled with her own skeletons.
Quite literally, in some cases.
Now, with the painful revelations of her past behind her, Helena wants to focus on her witchy girlfriend Iris Wingrave and the peaceful life they have together. But even if she’s done with the past, those proverbial skeletons aren’t quite done with her.
Nightmares and haunting visions bubble through Helena’s dreams every night, accompanied by a mysterious, shadowy figure. And it isn’t long before Helena receives a call from a former Sword of Light member desperately begging for help after her drug-dealing boyfriend gets kidnapped. Little does Helena know that by taking this case she’s getting entangled in a dark world of drugs, magic, and murderous demons—and stepping on the toes of a local coven, to boot.
Battling against monsters and meeting strange new deities isn’t how Helena planned to start her peaceful new life, but with new dangers lurking at every corner, she and Iris must race against the clock and work alongside the coven to uncover secrets that may be both their salvation and damnation…
Or risk a horrifying new threat to their existence being allowed to take hold.

(Lies & Legends 3: coming soon)

Dark Fantasy

We Who Burn

Petra Freyrsdótter can raise an entire village from the dead with her magic—so why can’t she bring her lover back to life?
Petra has spent the last two years trying to resurrect Orrus, the man she loves. And even though she’s a powerful necromancer, nothing works, and Orrus is perpetually stuck as a listless shade at her side while she searches all of Aelamor for a way to restore him. 
But when Petra gets caught by a priest for the God of Truth and Light—an order that burns necromancers at the stake—instead of killing her, he presents her with a strange gambit: If she can retrieve a blade that was stolen from his order, the priest will not only let her live, but will also reveal what he knows about how she can fully resurrect Orrus.
Although making a deal with a burned brother isn’t a good idea, Petra is desperate and out of options. Apart from saving her own life, she must do what she can to fulfill her promise to Orrus so they can be reunited in the world of the living.
When Petra finally tracks down Caspar, the thief who stole the blade, she can’t help but feel attracted to and intrigued by the handsome stranger whose hatred for the order is as strong as her own. 
Everything falls apart, however, when Petra and her companions are captured by the mad priests who serve the God of Truth and Light and they discover the secret of the blade and the vile ritual the order intends to use it for.
Now, Petra and Caspar must work together to keep the blade out of the priests’ clutches and bring the entire order to its knees before it’s too late. And she must be willing to risk everything—including her chance to be with Orrus again—if she wants to make sure the horrible future the order has planned can never come to light.

Horror/Thriller

Ectopic

When Emilie married Vincent Harwood, she didn’t know it was possible to be happier. Nothing—including her mother-in-law Caroline’s burning hatred for her—could change that fact. And now, three years later, Emilie and Vincent are expecting their first child. They’re enjoying their time as soon-to-be parents discussing baby names, planning for nurseries… and worrying about how to break the news his mother.
But Emilie’s life is turned upside down when tragedy strikes. Now, facing being a mother for the first time without her loving husband beside her, she’s overwhelmed with grief and uncertain about what the future will bring. After Vincent’s death, Caroline’s rage at losing her son threatens to boil over—until she discovers Emilie’s pregnancy, that is.
Suddenly the picture of grandmotherly love, Caroline’s endeavors to dote on her grandchild begin to take a dark turn. 
Whether it’s doctor’s appointments or birth and gender announcements, Caroline’s attempts to take the lead in Emilie’s pregnancy aren’t just unwanted, they’re downright intrusive.
Grief can do terrible things to the mind, as Emilie is all too aware. But with the baby’s birth quickly approaching, and Caroline’s possessive behavior growing worse every day, Emilie is starting to worry that her mother-in-law is convinced the baby isn’t Emilie’s child at all, but hers.
And as Emilie soon discovers, there’s no telling what Caroline will do to make sure she gets to the baby before her daughter-in-law does.

Fantasy Western

Trail Blazer (Baptism by Fire 1)

“Verygg was a powerful calamity. Split the land to make the Scar—an impassable gap between us and humans. Scorched the sky and broke the earth in two. Sacrificed herself to save all of witchkind.”

When she was a teenager, Dahlia Galloway decided she’d sooner chuck herself into the bottomless chasm of the Scar than to become a bangtail like most other witches in New Herald City and die in a brothel like her mama did. 
As a fire witch, she’s pretty darn good at burning bridges, but knows next to nothing about mending them, so when she hightailed it outta town, she might have burned more than a few along the way.
Now, years later, Dahlia makes her meager trade as a hex slinger selling magical remedies to humans, usually in back alleys or under cover of darkness. It’s not the life she’d dreamed of, and being recognized as a witch usually gets her a swift kick in the rear out of most establishments. As the only calamity born in the last century, Dahlia has spent her entire life dodging the responsibilities and expectations of other witches, but that all changes when an unusual messenger arrives with terrible news from an old friend, leaving her little choice but to come home.
On top of a spate of mysterious deaths and a strange, tarlike substance spreading across the malapi and town, blighting everything it touches, a powerful psychic has repeatedly seen visions of a fiery and bloody future if Dahlia fails to solve things—and fast.
With precious time to spare and tensions running high between the residents of New Herald, Dahlia must use her unique magic and the help of her companions to track down the killer, discover the source of the magical unrest, and stop the dark visions of the future from coming to fruition before another soul is lost.

Burn the Breeze (Baptism by Fire 2)

The conclusion of the “Baptism by Fire” duology

“We spent a long time not dealing with the heartache in the world and staying hidden here. Safe… purposely ignorant. It’s a hard habit to break.”

In the weeks following the battles that left many dead and the longest-lasting truce between human- and witchkind in shambles, Whitebird Hollow has become a place that’s more likely to produce muffled sobs than songs and laughter.
The dirt has barely even settled on the graves of those they lost and already, death is knocking at their door once more.
For fire calamity Dahlia Galloway, it’s certainly a hell of a time to have decided to stand her ground instead of hightailing it into the distance and leaving burning tracks in her wake.
As refugees begin pouring in from all around Ostra, so too does the evidence of vile, unspeakable experiments on witches in Coyote Snag: A nightmarish prison that up until recently was little more than legend; the stuff of stories told to baby witches by firelight.
As if stopping the murderer in New Herald City and fending off a mob of townspeople wasn’t hard enough, now, the Snag’s very own resident madman, the “Witch Doctor,” has come for the women of Whitebird Hollow.
And it’s looking certain that nothing—not even magic—will stand in his way.
After bearing witness to the cruel, diabolical experiments he’s performed and learning of his plans for the future, Dahlia and the other witches find themselves uncertain of how—or if—they can beat this monster at his own game.
Now, with little more than a bad attitude and some damn-near feral bullheaded tenacity, Dahlia has to stop the Witch Doctor before it’s too late. 
Since the consequence of failure is nothing less than the total destruction of everything—and everyone—with even the barest spark of magic, Dahlia refuses to pull in her horns.
…Even if that means sacrificing everything for the sake of those she loves.