Tag: urban fantasy

The Lady in the Blue Dress

November 19, 2021

Recently, I decided to take a chance and dive into something completely different. If you haven’t already heard about it, Amazon has launched a new way to publish books called Kindle Vella. Instead of a complete manuscript, books are published by continuous episodes reminiscent of the old days when Charles Dickens and other Victorian writers like Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, George Meredith, and Robert Louis Stevenson would publish in literary magazines in a serialized format. At Kindle Vella, the first three episodes of the novel are free and subsequent episodes are unlocked with tokens which are purchased.

The Lady in the Blue Dress is my first foray into this new publishing venue. It’s a book I actually began a good while back but have returned to often over the years, combining fantasy, paranormal, and my love of Pre-Raphaelite paintings. I hope you’ll drop by Kindle Vella and read my first three episodes for free and then decide if you’d like to take this adventure with me. From what I gather, you get you’re first 200 tokens free when you join.

Mika Devalieur desperately wants to refuse her grandmother’s last wish, but she can’t. Reluctantly, she travels from New Orleans to rural Virginia to deliver a precious Pre-Raphaelite painting into the hands of James Clairmont, someone she’s never laid eyes on before. But something isn’t right, and James Clairmont knows much more about her family and the painting than he is letting on. There are so many secrets about him, about her, and most especially, The Lady in the Blue Dress.

Kindle Vella Link

The Witches’ Own – Just Released

November 12, 2021

Just in case you haven’t quite gotten Halloween out of your system, here is one more chilling tale for you. The newly revised edition of The Witches’ Own has just been released and is available at Cornerstone, Amazon, and most other online book and eBook retailers.

The Witches’ Own

On the surface, things seem quiet and serene in the picturesque coastal village of Kilmarnock, Virginia. But something unseen roams its lush forests as the past and present collide and the unthinkable begins to wreak its vengeance. Young Lucy Bonner is executed for witchcraft in the town’s distant and brutal past. Her death triggers an unholy chain of events which grasp at the restless heart of novelist Peter McQuade, spurring him towards a quest to uncover the dark and terrifying truth.

Cornerstone
Amazon
Excerpt

The Broken Vow – Newly Revised Edition

October 25, 2021

Just in time for Halloween, the new edition of The Broken Vow is now available at Cornerstone Book Publishers, Amazon and most other online book and eBook retailers. I hope you’ll check out this pivotal episode in the adventures of my favorite lycanthrope Ethan Garraint.

The Broken Vow

In the heart of every man, there is a history. In the heart of every monster, there is a story. In The Broken Vow, (the first installment of The Clandestine Exploits of a Werewolf), Ethan Garraint is on a vendetta that begins in the heart of the Pyrenees with the fall of Montségur and leads him to the streets of New Orleans nearly five hundred years later. But the person he chases isn’t really a man anymore, and Ethan has been a werewolf for almost a millennium. With the aid of a gifted seer, he is on a blood hunt that will culminate in a journey that crosses the line between heaven and earth and ends somewhere in between.

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Amazon
Book Excerpt

Book Excerpts

July 17, 2021

Check out my new updated page for Book Excerpts! Just pop over to the Book Excerpt Page and you can either click on the link on the book covers or on the excerpt page on the side menu to see my most recent additions. Take a little time to forage through the Evelyn Klebert Collection. 🙂

Book Excerpt Page

The Tethering: A Portent of Crows – Just Released!!

July 10, 2021

My new paranormal romance, The Tethering: A Portent of Crows, has just been released at Cornerstone Book Publishers, Amazon, and most other on-line print and eBook platforms.

Deborah Brandt’s beloved Aunt Gena always told her that she was special, a bit different, and would have to live her life unlike other people. Of course, this she disregarded as the ramblings of her lovely but notably eccentric aunt. Although there were the things that Aunt Gena said that seemed true — like Deborah being sensitive to energy shifts, having potentially psychic impressions, and dreaming of a spirit guide — none of it could be real. But the most ridiculous thing that her Aunt Gena told her before she died is that there is someone special out there for her. She said that he is an extraordinary man who is not only her perfect match but someone who she would learn from so that they could help the world in difficult times. How ridiculous! It sounds like a fairy tale, and no such person exists.

Daniel Wren is unique. He has been raised and trained from a young age to hone his psychic gifts. He lives in a world unimagined by most. And he has been waiting for years to contact his counterpart, soulmate if you will. But the problem is that she is painfully unaware of the type of life that he lives and the life she would be entering into if they came together.

His dilemma becomes how best to proceed. How can he win her over and move forward before outside forces take that decision away from him?

Even in the Darkest of Times

October 25, 2020

My next short story for Halloween month is a tale about a young woman in the midst of one of the darkest times in her life finding hope and a new beginning in the most unexpected way. “The Tear” is a paranormal short story that I first published in a collection called Dragonflies. And it has always been one of my favorites. Hope you enjoy! Follow the link below.

The Tear (link)

Treading on Borrowed Time New Edition

December 15, 2019

Join the quest across time itself this holiday season. The newly revised edition of Treading on Borrowed Time has just been released.

For Julia Moreau, life seems complicated. Rather isolated after emerging from a failed marriage and managing a lifetime of insulin-dependent diabetes, she lives alone in her childhood home. Of course, being an extraordinary psychic sensitive, she does communicate with the spirit of her long-deceased Great Aunt Lilia. But Julia really doesn’t have a clue what complicated is until she is abruptly thrust into being the key chess piece in a power struggle between two powerful men of extraordinary abilities

An Englishman, Christian Monamet, considers himself a collector of sorts. His latest potential acquisition has driven him overseas. It is a mythical creature whose power, he believes, is his family legacy.

His rival, Dr. Nicholas Burke, has a disturbingly similar goal. Determined to use all weapons at his disposable, he seeks to obtain mastery and control over the very same fantastical entity so deeply shrouded in mystery.

What they both have in common is the discovery that somehow Julia Moreau is their only lead. Will Julia lose her soul to the karma of a devastating past life or her heart to the love of a man driven by dark forces? Travel across their battleground, the enigmatic city of New Orleans past and present, as all three race against fate before time itself runs out.

A Quiet Moment

January 23, 2019

Bundle up this winter season and lose yourself in an otherworldly romance. Now available at Cornerstone Book Publishers and Amazon.

 

Jacob Wyss is caught in a rut, in fact on the verge of being engulfed by it. After an excruciating and disillusioning divorce, his life as an artist in a sleepy-college town at the foot of the Appalachian mountains has become quiet, routine, and maddening in its predictability. One wintry day, his deep restlessness drives him out in precarious conditions to a largely empty bookstore nearly devoid of another living soul, nearly.

Aimee Marston isn’t like everyone else. On the surface, she lives a sedate life working as a feature writer for a small local newspaper in addition to several other editorial jobs to help make ends meet. But just beneath, her existence is largely not her own. She is a sensitive, an empathetic psychic, guided by her calling to use her gifts to help others. Unfortunately, as a result, her secretiveness has made her defensive, protective of herself, and prevented her from having much of a life of her own.

A psychic call for help sends Aimee out on a freezing January morning where her destiny and Jacob’s collide sending both their lives spiraling onto an unexpected and often disturbing track. Two lonely souls connect, not by accident, but by design. Theirs is the intersection of two spiritual paths, two lovers who must struggle to overcome the phantoms of a past life, as well as the challenges of their own inner demons to carve out an extraordinary future together.

CORNERSTONE BOOK PUBLISHERS

AMAZON

Just Released Travels into the Breach

December 4, 2018
Released 2018

Just Released!! Hop on board the paranormal adventures of Malachi McKellan and Simon Tull this holiday season as they tangle with ghosts, witches, demons, vampires, and everything in between.

At first glance, his life seems quiet, serene, and even uneventful. Malachi McKellan, a 65 five year old widower and author of esoteric books, lives largely as a recluse in a house situated just off the banks of Bayou St. John in New Orleans. But unbeknownst to most, he is also a bit of a detective, a specific kind of detective whose specialty is psychic attacks. Alongside his lifelong companion and spirit guide Simon Tull, a nineteenth century, twenty something English gent, Malachi battles the unseen, and is an unacknowledged hero to the most vulnerable – most of the population who have no idea what is really happening beneath the surface of the world in which they live.

In this collection of adventures, Malachi McKellan and Simon Tull wage war against the most insidious elements of the paranormal. In “The Three,” Malachi and Simon come to the aid of a young woman being victimized by a group of dark witches. An old apartment building is the scene of an unimaginable battle against monstrous forces in “The Lost Soul.” Malachi and Simon find themselves strategizing against a psychic vampire in “Obsession,” and “The Hotel” turns back time to the 1980’s where Malachi confronts a demonic spirit. In “Between,” a past life is revisited as Malachi attempts to rescue a beloved sister from committing her existence to vengeance, and “The Wedding” takes a personal turn when Malachi must confront painful truths while endeavoring to protect his niece from a potentially devastating union. Travel into the Breach with a pair of paranormal warriors who choose to confront overwhelming forces on a battlefield unsuspected by most.

Now available in paperback and eBook formats.

CORNERSTONE BOOK PUBLISHERS

AMAZON