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Current Project
Pinion (North Texas Gothic)
Jodi Moyer always thought her sister had a guardian angel. Lilah was the lucky one, the fey and flighty one, while Jodi dealt with the realities of a ruined dancing career, of grad school and mounting debts and a nursing home-bound mother. The last thing she needs is Lilah calling after years of silence, begging for help and not explaining why.
But before Jodi can do anything, Lilah dies in a car accident. Jodi wants to sort out the paperwork and go home, one more tragedy to put behind her, but strange things keep happening in her sister's house. Lilah's roommates don't want to talk about it, but they're scared, and the man who caused the accident thinks Lilah is haunting him, and begs Jodi's help.
Soon she's seeing monsters outside the house, and her sister's ghost in mirrors, and dreaming of a war in heaven. Jodi begins to piece together the truth about Lilah's guardian angel, but she's already caught up in its ancient grudges. And as the walls of heaven and hell begin to fall, she realizes that Lilah was never the lucky one at all.
Finished Novels
The Drowning CitySymir--the Drowning City. A lush subtropical port, home to exiles and expatriates, pirates and smugglers. And violent revolutionaries who'll stop at nothing to overthrow the corrupt Imperial government.
For Isyllt Iskaldur, necromancer and spy, the brewing revolution is a chance to prove herself to her Crown, and to forget the heartbreak that haunts her at home. All she has to do is find and finance the revolutionaries, and help topple the palaces of Symir. But the longer she stays in the monsoon-drenched city, the more factions and intrigues she uncovers--even the dead are plotting, and the monsters who live in the flooded canals. And the closer she grows to an Imperial mage, the more her loyalties are strained.
Betrayed by her allies, hunted by the people she meant to aid, and determined to save a man oath-bound to kill her, Isyllt must choose between her mission and the lives of thousands of people. But as the waters rise and dams crack, everything she's worked for may still be swept away.
Liz Drake's dreams--and her nightmares--have always been vivid, her dreamlands as real as the waking world; she can't ignore them, even when she tries. After a week of dreaming of her best friend Blake drowning, she knows he needs her. When she learns he's comatose in a Vancouver hospital, she promises to help, not realizing how dangerous that may be.
In Vancouver Liz meets Blake's new friends and patrons--but everyone is lying, or keeping secrets. The truth has to do with Liz's nightmares, and with the monsters she glimpses moving the shadows of clubs and alleys and art galleries.
As she tries to unravel the truth behind a drug called mania and a modern-day cult of Dionysos, dream-creatures stalk the city and Liz's nightmares worsen. The Dionysian trappings mask something far more ancient and terrible, and she cannot save Blake while in the waking world. To rescue her friend, she must travel to the darkest corners of the dreamlands, where mankind was never meant to go. Even the attempt may kill her.
And if she succeeds, she must face the monstrous Yellow King, whose slave Blake is on the verge of becoming forever.
Future Novels
Prayers to Broken Stone (A Lovecraftian romance)Cate spent her childhood searching for forests behind wardrobes, for fairies in toadstool rings and worlds on the far side of the mirror; she never found them. Now, after a failed relationship and her father's death, she needs a spark of magic more than ever. But when she meets Adrian, and stumbles through a hole in the world, she realizes just how terrifying magic really is. And how hard it is to escape, once she's attracted its attention.
Adrian was the Anubites' golden child, raised in their lightless tunnels, trained to guard the passages between the living and the dead, groomed to take his place on the high council of ghouls--until they tested his loyalty too far, and he fled. Now he lives in hiding, precariously balanced between the worlds of men and monsters. But the walls between worlds are crumbling, and he can't ignore the things slipping through the cracks.
Holly was raised a weapon--assassin and thief, courtesan and spy. But now her Anubite masters are dead, and she doesn't know where to turn. Betrayed by her allies and hunted by an apostate priestess, her only hope is to complete her last assignment--find Adrian, the man whose heart she broke years ago. She just needs to stay alive long enough to do it. And if she succeeds, their enemies are right behind her.
Meanwhile, beneath the skin of the world, a serpent sleeps--the dragon who gnaws the roots of the world, the snake who dreams of eating the sun. And he's starting to wake up.
The Bone Palace (The second Isyllt book)
When a prostitute dies carrying a royal signet, Isyllt Iskaldur, necromancer and agent of the Crown, is called to investigate. Her search leads to desecrated tombs below the palace, and the lightless vaults of the vampiric vrykoloi deep beneath the city. She and the Crown Prince must hide their investigation from the King, or risk a war between the living and the undead.
But worse things than vampires are plotting in Erisín--a long-dead sorceress is making a bid not only for renewed life, but for the throne as well, and both Isyllt's former lover and the Prince's mistress are caught in her schemes. Soon Isyllt is torn between the living and the dead, between the man she still loves and the royal family she's sworn to defend.
As a sorcerous plague sweeps the city and demons stalk the streets, the King slips closer to madness; Isyllt must decide who she's prepared to betray, before the city built on bones falls in blood and fire.
Mist & Chill (Ghosts, Gods, & MacGuffins)
After a childhood shadowed by illness, Alessande Stephanides is happy enough to reach her twenty-seventh birthday, let alone follow it with a PhD and waiting dream job. But all those brushes with death marked her more than she realized. Now the factions of the underworld are after her, and they'll use her in their schemes, or make sure no one else ever can.
Soon all her life's plans are shattered and Alessande is on the run, with only ghosts and half-forgotten gods as her allies. And at her heels follow demons, a man who eats souls, and an apostate angel who seeks to throw open the deepest pits of hell. To stop them, she must descend into the frozen darkness of the underworld to take up the mantle of a goddess who died centuries ago, and rally the unquiet dead to her cause.
Alessande thought she knew a lot about death, but nothing prepared her for the reality.