COMPLETED WORKS

Shadowsfall

Contemporary Paranormal

It isn’t easy being the Champion, especially when it’s a hereditary position and you’re not the strongest witch in the world.  Thalia Kent has managed, so far, with wit and nerve and every scrap of magic she possesses.  But now, her cousin -- a mortal -- is dead, murdered by a rogue vampire, and if she’d going to hunt him down and survive, she’ll need all the help she can get.  She needs Gideon Damek, immortal vampire.  But vampires shun witches for good reason.  Witch blood is poisonous to vampires.

Soon, Thalia must deal with a reluctant partner, a rebellious witch community, interfering police, a healthy dose of self-doubt, a raging passion for the forbidden Mr. Damek and an enemy who’s following an ancient prophecy that requires both their deaths, all without losing her neck, or her heart.

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Prologue

The corpse on the stainless steel table wasn’t Lily.  It couldn’t be. 

Lily’s skin had a tanned glow, nothing like the icy pallor of this poor soul.  Her cousin’s lips were fuller too, the lines of her face more angular.  And her eyes, well this woman’s eyes were closed, but there was no way she had summer-sky eyes like Lily’s.  And Lily’s hair had been golden, not this dull sandy blonde.

Thalia Kent shook her head in denial, closed her eyes against the burn of tears.  Death had bleached the brightness of her cousin’s skin and hair, stolen the plumpness from her lips and bloated her face, but despite the protests of Thalia’s grieving mind, the lifeless body before her was Lily.

Thalia leaned forward, tracing the contours of her cousin’s beloved face.  The grinding ache in her chest made it hard to breathe. 

Lily looked so cold lying there under the merciless lights.  Thalia knew it made no sense, but she reached out a shaking hand to tug the thin sheet a little higher. 

Lily’s eyes flew open, pupils glowing red.  Thalia recoiled, swallowing a scream.  Lily lurched up and clamped Thalia’s wrist with a hand transformed into a frigid claw.  Her pointed nails bit into Thalia’s flesh.  Thalia wrenched her arm back, trying to break free, but Lily was too strong.  Her cousin snarled, exposing two-inch fangs, and pulled Thalia closer.  A glacial wave of terror washed over her.  Lily’s eyes flashed red-hot.

“You’re next,” she said.

Air exploded into Thalia’s lungs with a whoosh as she sat up in bed.  Panting, she gazed into the darkness of her room.  Sweat chilled her bare skin.  Dread constricted her chest.

A nightmare.  That’s all it was.  Nothing but a terrifying dream -- except the first part had been real.

Lily was dead.

Murdered.

And although Thalia was certainly the weakest witch of her family line, she knew the second part of the nightmare for what it was -- a prophetic dream. 

Goddammit.

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WORKS IN PROGRESS

Shadow Wolf

Contemporary Paranormal

To atone for a mistake, knight and sorcerer Sebastian of Misthaven, took the form of a canine familiar to protect the descendants of the woman he wronged.  Fatally wounded tracking a rogue vampire, he is rescued by another woman from his past -- a woman he thought long dead.
When immortal vampire Arianna turns a dying wolf, she is stunned to discover he is the man she loved as a young girl.  The man who abandoned her at the time she’d needed him most. 
As they race to stop a killer, Arianna finds her old feelings returning, but the centuries old spell Sebastian cast to become a familiar is slowly trapping him back in the body of a wolf.  Time is running out.

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IN CONCEPT

Shadow Time (Lucius and Dana)
Contemporary Paranormal
(Book one in a mini-series within a series)
Turned vampire and taken to the past by an evil vampire, police detective Dana Cole takes strength from fellow prisoner Lucius, a former Roman gladiator, and soon, escape isn’t all Dana wants.

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Shadow Line (Poole and Cherise)
Contemporary Paranormal
(Book Two in a mini-series within a series)
Turned vampire after he was technically dead, former Detective Edward Poole was re-born a daywalker.  Taken to the past and held prisoner as a blood slave for hundreds of years, he emerges, walking the thin line of sanity, with only one goal: to kill all vampires, but his new target, Cherise Jolie is not the vicious killer he expects and when she is threatened by the cult who imprisoned him, he discovers he needs nothing more than her love.

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Shadow Man(Fletcher and Marion)
Contemporary Paranormal
(The final book in of a mini-series within a series)
Born a peasant in the Middle Ages, centuries-old vampire, Robert Fletcher has three rules; never be cold, poor or hungry again. “Do” unto others before they can “do” unto you. And never trust anyone.
Taken back in time and abandoned there by a renegade demon, he has no choice except to turn to beautiful Marion DuChance and soon his rules aren’t the only things in danger of being broken.

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The Chimera Courtship

Separated in childhood, the seven Mara brothers are part man, part beast, part mythological creature, and only Kyle, the oldest, knows their secret – unless they can find their destined mates, the man will be consumed until only the monsters remain.

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The Chimera Courtships -- Jake’s Story

Paranormal Romance
Alone since the age of eleven, Jake Mara is a mystery – even to himself.  Kidnapped by a secretive faction he knows only as “the Group”, he veers closer to madness every day, until he meets the woman who could be his savior.

Dr. Maya Parekh has always had family around her, but when her mother dies, she finds herself suddenly alone and saddled with debt.  A debt she owes to her employer, Thomas Kincade of the Kincade Group.  When he asks her to work on a special project, she can’t say no.  The project is a man, reportedly a convicted killer, but despite his apparent flashes of madness and antisocial demeanor, Maya can’t help feeling a connection to the handsome loner. 

Together, they must escape from the deadly grasp of “the Group” and discover the secret of Jake’s past or they won’t have a future.

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