Writing

In Print:

My story Of Mouse, and Music is in:

Ravens in the Library
Magic in the Bards's Name

A Limited Edition Collection of Stories and Art dedicated to the health of S.J. Tucker

This special VERY limited edition has been complied to defray the medical expenses and recovery of musician S.J. Tucker.

The collection will NOT be released in stores! It will be available only as long as those expenses remain unresolved. After that, RAVENS IN THE LIBRARY will disappear.

Order your copy today... Before they fly away forever!

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...

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In Process:

I am currently working on a short book titles Spot and Whisk, as I get ready for Clarion West.

Available on the Web:

If you'd like to read samples of my work, you can use the navigation links to the right to do so, or go see my Stories, Poetry, Serials, or Novels.