Novels

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Last Fire of Sunset

Thomas and Leta Howard are, on the surface, typical new homesteaders in the Dakota Territory in 1863—a young couple with a baby, just starting out in the world. That surface hides a deeper secret. Leta is half black, her mother a former slave, and her marriage to Thomas is illegal. The Civil War is raging, but hundreds of miles away. Leta and Thomas think they're safe to raise their son in peace and isolation.

But when neighboring landowners discover their secret, their safety is revealed as an illusion. Thomas dies to the bullets of a posse, and Leta and her son John are badly wounded. All Leta has left is her life and her son—and vengeance. With the help of a Sioux man outcast from his own tribe, she will hunt down the posse, one by one...

She will kill every one of them, or lose her life trying.

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Every Sacred Thing

"The Tower must fall."

In Roman Constantinople, the Tower of Hagia Sophia is a law unto itself. The mages who reside there do not interfere in mundane political affairs, and the Empire turns a blind eye to the magic they practice.

Livia Neria's husband, an imperial advisor, has just been murdered in his bed by a demon. Livia must discover who sent the demon who killed him before it strikes again at her and her young daughter.

In a city where words can be deadlier than daggers, nothing at all is as it seems. Livia finds herself playing a desperate game of shifting alliances as she tries to uncover the secrets for which her husband died. Words, blades, intrigue, magic: all of these are weapons one grieving woman must learn how to wield to avenge her husband, and keep herself and her people safe.

The attempt to unravel her husband's secrets will lead Livia into deadly places, and she will find that to defeat her enemies, she may have to become them...

Current Projects

Title: The Twilight Cycle
Status: in rewrites (The Blood Lily) and awaiting rewrite (The Ice Rose)
Estimated date of completion: late 2007
The Twilight Cycle is an epic story of love, hatred, sacrifice, and the gods. Magic is slowly dying in the world. Mortal and immortal alike are struggling for power as the old world dies by inches. Those who win the power struggle will determine what the new world will be like, but as even the purest of souls descend into darkness, the future of the world is in doubt, no matter who wins. The first draft of this series can be read at http://www.bloodlily.com/ .

Future Projects

Title: Not For Jade
For Iyotushi Reiko, the past, present, and future are melding together. Her story takes place simultaneously in three times: ancient Japan in the pre-Edo period, the turbulent period just before the Edo era began, and modern-day California. Reiko is a kitsune, a Japanese fox spirit...and she has no idea who and what she is. She must find out, because a powerful necromancer is in the process of exterminating the fox-spirits, and unless she comes into her power she will end up as the last of her kind in the world.