Serials

I write serial fiction; much of it is cowritten by me and Storm Wilder. I generally release a story every two weeks or so. I am currently working on getting an archive of my serials up on this site.

Currently being written:

I'm on hiatus currently, I'm a little busy at the moment with some other writing work. check back later, though; I like writing serials too much to stay away for long!

Completed Serials:

Imryne, of House Melrae

In a city beneath stone, a forbidden faith is about to raise its head once more...

House Melrae is a family that keeps a deadly secret locked behind heavily carved doors. They worship a goddess outlawed centuries ago, alone except for a handful of families in an entire city of drow who worship the spider goddess Lloth. When one of their allied houses falls, House Melrae is promoted to the ruling council of the city--and Imryne, their third daughter, is sent to the council as the representative of her mother.

The only way Imryne's house will survive being on the council is to take control of it, and to do so she must use all of her house's resources and alliances to destroy the houses above her. She will use all of the cunning that her has inherited from her mother to combat enemies outside of her house, inside of it, and even inside her own mind.

She carries within her a madness that had nearly killed her several times, and now she suffers dreams, dreams which cannot be anything more than the workings of an overwrought mind but somehow keep coming true...

The Water and the Wild

Come away, O human child...

You never ask the fairies to come, but sometimes they do anyway. Fifteen-year-old Grainne O'Gallochobhair has always seen things that others can't, though she keeps quiet about it. She's got bigger concerns on her mind, after all: a possible marriage to her foster brother, the great hunger that is stalking all who live on the farms in the Irish countryside, keeping four little sisters out of trouble. Seeing the occasional troll or pixie is evidence that she isn't quite right in the head, she thinks, and she says nothing.

Then a pair of pixies wake her up in the middle of the night and tell her that she is fairykin, and the trolls she has been seeing more often lately are trying to bring Ireland back into their own land...and in the process kill all of the humans there. The pixies ask for her help to fight the trolls, and keep Ireland in the human world. Soon, Grainne will discover that she has a far more personal stake in the battle. The mother she barely remembers has been taken prisoner by the king of the trolls.

It's not easy to fight this battle and keep it a secret from her family. When trouble follows her home, she must decide whether to throw in her lot with the pixies, or stay in the human world, with all the consequences of being not quite human.

Spiritwalkers

One family is lost, but another is gained...

Nascha is a Navajo, newly married and living with her family on the dry plains of the American west. A raid by the neighboring Arapaho changes all that, and Nascha is captured and carried away, most of her family killed. Her cousin Sakhyo and Sakhyo's son are also captured, and both Sakhyo and Nascha are taken as wives by those who killed their family.

Nascha escapes, swearing to come back for her cousin. But her escape and headlong flight to find help come to an end when she is found, nearly dead of thirst, by an elite band of Apache warriors--and told that she has been chosen to become one of them.

She must become spiritwalker, one of those who can walk in the world of spirits, or die trying. Because those who hold her cousin have a dark power, and to rescue Sakhyo, she must become their equal...

Sleepless Streets
In the mean streets of the city, it's good to have friends. But with friends like these, your enemies may only be the start of your problems...

Martin Riverbend is a bargeman, late of the River Brother monastery and a man whose ambition in life extends no farther than purchasing a barge of his own. All of that changes in a literal flash--the flash of light caused by the death of an angel. Now, along with a teenaged necromancer, a slightly elderly watchmaker, and a genius rat, he has to find the culprits and hand them over to the authorities--preferably without ending up as their next victim.

What he doesn't know is that this is only the beginning of an adventure that will take him and his friends into places they never expected to find themselves. In a city at the crossroads of several worlds, a talent for sniffing out mysteries can get you into bigger and better trouble than you ever imagined.

Black Angel Crossroads
Bon Mambo Odile Sky Without Ending lives alone in the swamp south of New Orleans, in the house her grandmother built, practicing the religion handed down to her and caring for her community--the slaves on the surrounding plantations. She is one of the most powerful vodoun practitioners in the area, and none can match her for defensive skills.

One stormy night, a white man shows up on her doorstep, along with his bodyguard and a dying man. When it become obvious that there is black magic at work, Odile is drawn into a battle that she did not choose and doesn't want to fight, gathering problematic allies and dealing with her own growing feelings for Gabriel, the man who came to her door and asked for her help.

But fight she must, despite the dark secrets she discovers at every turn. The loa Ghede, who guards the crossroads between the living and the dead, has been trapped in a human body, and in his absence there are things that would come through into the world of the living. If Ghede is not found in time, the one who would take his place will turn the world into a place where the living and the dead coexist--much to the detriment of the living.

Shadows and Silk
A sword does not judge its wielder...but perhaps it should.

Minamoto Ayame died when she was six years old. Taken from her family, trained to be a geisha and assassin, Ayame is absolutely loyal to her clan and a ruthless killer, a weapon to be wielded. Taught by her teacher Chiyo to be emotionless and soulless, Ayame thinks of herself as a ghost, one of the teeming world of spirits who watch the living world and cannot touch it. The only time she feels real is when she is playing her shamisen, losing herself in the music that seems to be as much her master as she is its.

Her brother, the leader of the Minamoto clan, has hatched a daring plan to kidnap the two emperors who currently rule Japan and place a man of his choice on the throne. As Ayame works to open the way for the planned rebellion to take place, she begins to encounter curious coincidences that make her begin to think the unthinkable: that she is being betrayed by her own blood.

Ayame must discover who is betraying her, and why. She will be caught up in deadly politics, and have to decide between loyalty to her family, and what might just turn out to be the greater good of Japan.

Guardian's Road
It is 1450 years before the common era, and the Minoan civilization is one of the great powers of the world. Theron is a Guardian of Porta, the goddess of the harvest, charged with the protection of the Daughters of Porta, the priestesses. He's an upstanding man who genuinely beleives in the law he has ordered his life by, the law for which he has renounced the world. He's fallen in love with a priestess from a rival Temple, and has taken ship in order to try to find the strength to fight the temptation to break the vows he lives his life by. Unfortunately, someone has other plans for Theron and his love Melitta, and they find themselves hunted by their respective Temples, trying to unravel a mystery centuries old before dangers yet unseen engulf them.

Shades of the Silent
It is 1220, and the man born as Temujin and now known to the world as Ghengis Khan is continuing his campaign to conquer central Asia. He sends one of his daughters, a young woman named Yesui, to retrieve a magical artifact of immense power, one of thirteen made by a mage of great power and greater evil. She successfully retrieves the item, and then watches in horror as he wreaks horrors on the city of Otrar. Yesui must retrieve and destroy all thirteen artifacts before the dead mage who made them conquers her father's soul, and obliterates her family.

Tiamat's Kittens
From the time she was born, the white dragon Palil has been a member of the military, along with Sondirra, the dark elf she bonded with at birth. Raised by their teachers in a military academy, they are about to embark on their compulsory two years of military service. For them, the world is simple. Do as you're told, stick by your squadmates, and try not to get killed. Then they're approached by military intelligence...and the world gets a lot more complicated. Behind everything they know lurks a darker truth, and it is one that will sweep them up as the tides of history rise and bring with them revolution. They will lose friends, allies, leaders, and possibly even each other--but if they are good enough, they may gain a world...

Every Sacred Thing
The year is 337 AD; the place is the city formerly known as Byzantium and which is now popularly known as Constantinople, or New Rome, the new capital of the Roman Empire. Emperor Constantine has died, leaving the empire divided between his three sons, the regents: Constantine the Younger, Constantius, and Constans. Livia Neria's husband, a senator and advisor to the regent Constantius, has just been assassinated, leaving her a wealthy--and young--widow. Her world shattered by the loss of her beloved husband, she is attempting to put the pieces of her life back together. To do this, she must assemble the pieces of a most daunting puzzle. Her husband was involved in things she never knew about, had a past that she never guessed at, and was working towards a goal that only he knew about. The search will lead her into deadly places, and she will find that to defeat her enemies, she may have to become them.

Flower of War
The center of the Aztec world is Tenochtitlan, and at the heart of Tenochtitlan is a temple--the Great Pyramid of Huitzilopochtli. The Pyramid has just been finished and is about to be consecrated, and a priest named Jade Reed is preparing for the day when eighty thousand people will be sacrificed to her god. Jade has a fateful encounter with her god, an encounter that will bring her into noble--and extremely dangerous--company. Everything she touches will change, but how it changes is up to the conflicted heart of a priest who isn't sure she's up to the task she's been set.

Gaming Recaps:

Yes, I play D&D. I also write long and complcated accounts of the exploits of our group. Each campaign lasts about a year.

All of these are completed.

The Living Sands
It is the fourth year of the reign of Ramses II, 1275 years before the common era. Seven travelers meet on the Nile by chance, each of them on their own journey to their own destination. But soon it becomes apparent that there is something stirring among the pyramids, something ancient and hungry. The travelers find themselves up to their neck in pharaohs both living and dead, hyena gods, air spirits, and ancient grudges that refuse to remain dead.

Illume
The place: Japan. The time: 1583. We begin with a historical event: Emperor Nobunga is captured in battle, and commits seppuku with those who conquered him, Lord Akechi and General Hideyoshi, present. Nobunga faltered, and Akechi took his head. From there, the events diverge from history as it is revealed that there is a malign force moving in the world, and a small group begins fighting what will become known to history as the Spirit War. Told from the point of view of Lord Akechi's wife, this is the story of seven people for whom the world will never be the same again.