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Years after a comet hits the world of Veyrdel, the food supply is dangerously low. The Niveti, who are carnivores, finally stoop to killing Veyrdel's other race. After his classroom is attacked, Rohan gets up the courage to go into his father’s time-shifter to try and prevent the violence. But a miscalculation sends him back much further than he intended, and he gets the chance to change not only his future, but everyone’s.

Forced to evacuate over a severed world, Logan's mind is more on how to complete his reluctantly-accepted mission than on how to find his fellow survivors. Then he encounters Jia, an Inako who was banished from her village, and his priorities about a lot of things begin to change. ((Romance)) Read the first chapter here.

After a messy divorce, Amelia wants to get out of the city. After getting into trouble one too many times, Lucy needs to get out. The sisters find refuge in Vermont-- but their new home has its own share of problems. ((Horror)) Read the first chapter here.

Various short stories are available for free at my Smashwords page.


Coming Soon:

Faerietale
Written by me, Angie Barry, and Colleen Toliver
Dark Fantasy
A combination of every Grimm fairy tale with Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, and the Wizard of Oz, twisted into darker or weirder shapes. This is a world where Beauty has been cursed with ugliness for her vanity, where the "charming" Prince keeps a harem, where Little Red Riding Hood is a heartless assassin, and where Alice falls in love with Snow White.
Two excerpts from this novel are available for free on Smashwords-- Through the Looking Glass, and Goodnight, Sleeping Beauty.

Anabel meets Trader above the surface of a flooded world, full of questions about what happened to the inhabitants. He knows the answers, because the creatures that murdered this planet also murdered his. The two of them help start the Karavan, bringing together both victims and adventure-seekers on a quest to stop the Bianandrin.
Written by me and Kathy Couture
January 2012

Rachel's Village (sequel to Jia's Charms)
Romantic Fantasy
Rachel thinks she has enough on her plate when she has to deal with a scavenger crew that arrives to take apart the defunct Caspian. But soon they realize that's not all the crew is there for . . . one of them has been sent to not only complete Logan's mission, but to kill him for his betrayal of their employer.
March 2012

Redemption
Religious Fiction
Until now, Sarai and Joanna have had common problems-- dating troubles, career choices, crises of faith. Then the strange visions start. They struggle to hold on to their friendship, but that seems impossible when they realize they're doomed to fight on opposing sides in the coming apocalypse.
May 2012

Atmidos: A Steampunk Story of the Greek Pantheon
Fantasy/Alternate Universe
Set in an America where worshipers of the Greek Pantheon are the majority, the first book follows a young woman as she tries to make a new life for herself after the revelation of a secret destroys her relationship with her sister. She thinks she's found peace in the small town of Oracle, but when a stranger who believes he's Orpheus decides she's his Eurydice, she realizes her problems are far from over.
July 2012

Pale Moon
Fantasy/Alternate Universe
It's a universally accepted fact that ghosts, werewolves, and such exist. The problem is how to deal with that. Some people set up Ghost Tours, showing tourists around the places where trapped spirits keep reliving their deaths. An enterprising corporation invents the SD-- the Supernatural Detector, which will go off should a vampire or werewolf masquerading as a "normal" approach. And some people, like Elspeth, try to create a place that's a haven from politics and modern-day witch hunts. That plan works better on some days than others.
October 2012
((Note: This novel and Changeling were originally projects at the fun make-your-own-TV-show community I Surrendered. If you want to see more info and read a few short stories, head there and hit the by:allthelivesofme tag.))

Eight Ruby Slippers for Charlotte
Written by me and Kathy Couture
YA
An online writing collaboration results in friendship, but then an emergency forces the four writers to meet in real life, pushing their secrets out into the open.
January 2013


In the Works:

And This Is Fate
Written by me and Kathy Couture
Fantasy
Over a decade after we first started working on We Were Strangers together, Kath and I have decided to revisit it-- this time as a more adult-oriented fantasy than as a kid-friendly fable. An unlikely trio-- a quiet pacifist, a trained killer, and a temperamental faery-- find themselves needing to travel together in order to safely get back to the new settlement of Chalet. But Chalet turns out to be far from a sanctuary.

Changeling
Fantasy
In the Emerald Clan, human and fae children are sometimes switched soon after birth. Though the fae children are eventually returned home, the human children grow up as slaves among the fae. The Amethyst Clan hate the practice, fearing what might happen if the human world at large finds out about their existence. Now their paranoia is justified, because Slave #53 has found her way into the human realm, and she wants her life back.