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The Madness Project (The Madness Method #1)
In a world that shuns magic…
…the Crown Prince hides his power.
But how long can he keep it secret?
Seventeen-year-old Prince Tarik is only too happy to ignore his magical powers, until an underground society of mages is blamed for a ruthless assassination plot.
None of his father’s spies can get close to the group.
Tarik is the only one who can, if he uses his long-buried power. But who can he turn to for help?
Friendship is a strange word on the streets…
…and trust is stranger still. But as Tarik fights to stay undetected with plots of rebellion tightening around him, he wins an unlikely ally in Hayli, a shapeshifter mage.
Hayli has spent her life on the streets, trying to forget her own strange magic. Meeting Tarik brings her closer to her power than she ever believed possible. But is he too dangerous to trust?
If they join forces, will they be strong enough to survive the city’s darkest currents…
…or will they fall together?
A Dark So Deep (The Madness Method #2)
Beloved prince, rebel, traitor…
…Tarik brought his country to the brink of war.
Can he now bring peace before he loses his own sanity?
With Hayli in the grips of the Science Ministry and his allies in hiding, Tarik must wrestle his own demons before he forgets his reason for fighting.
Some believe he is the key to defusing the hostilities.
Some believe he is the only one who can save the mages from annihilation…
…but at what cost?
While Tarik fights to protect his people, Hayli must defend her life and her sanity long enough to escape her captors. But can she ever truly be free?
As the lines between loyalty and betrayal blur, only one question matters.
If the price for peace is too high…
…is war the only option?
A Sea Like Glass (The Madness Method #3)
Tarik, Hayli and their crew tried to stop the insurgency…
…but they failed.
The monarchy has fallen, the nation is leaderless, and world war looms.
Heartbroken, Tarik escapes Cavnal and risks everything on a perilous voyage to the harsh and hostile country of Istia…
…to secure an alliance that could stop the war.
But the only way to win the Istians’ support is to take power. Can he win their trust before it’s too late?
Or is his mind already too lost to madness to be saved?
Without Tarik’s leadership, Hayli and the remnants of his crew try to put the pieces of their lives back together. But then a rogue mage arrives in Brinmark with a claim that should be impossible…
…a claim that threatens the last fragile threads of stability in Cavnal.
And even as nations rise and fall and war creeps closer, ancient powers are stirring, sweeping everything—and everyone—into their eternal conflict.
Down a Lost Road (The Lost Road Chronicles #1)
Summer was supposed to mean sun, family, and fun…
…not undead warriors, mythical creatures, and trees that glow.
But that’s exactly what 16-year-old Merelin gets.
Merelin’s family has always been a little odd, but ever since her father disappeared four years ago, life has been pretty boring.
Then her world gets yanked out from under her.
Literally.
As if waking up in the desert of an alien world wasn’t bad enough, the only person who sees her arrive is a fascinating — and infuriating — boy who calls himself Yatol…
…and tells her she carries the key that could save or destroy his world.
Can she trust his promise to help her survive, or should she walk away from his world—and the danger that threatens it—forever?
And if she fights…
…what price will she have to pay?
Subverter (The Lost Road Chronicles #2)
A year has passed since the Judgment…
…and Merelin wonders if she will ever return to Arah Byen.
Then the visions begin.
Memories of a life and love she left behind begin to twist into something dark and terrible. Is it guilt that haunts her…
…or is she foreseeing a terrifying future yet to come?
Her role in Arah Byen is far from over, but nothing can prepare her for what she will find when she returns.
She thought she had won peace for the world, but a new enemy lurks in the shadows and plots the overthrow of all that Merelin and Yatol fought for.
With everything turned upside-down, Merelin must discover whose side she is really on—and who she can trust—before it is too late.
But how can she know who to trust…
…when she isn’t even sure she can trust herself?
Prism (The Lost Road Chronicles #3)
In a world that blames her for something she didn’t do…
…Merelin must take on a new identity.
But how long will it take for the truth to come out?
Merelin wants nothing more than to bring Arah Byen into some kind of balance…
…but nothing is going as planned.
The High King raves like a mad man. Merelin’s allies scatter and turn on each other, and the man she loves more than anything stands on the edge of a darkness she cannot comprehend.
Things couldn’t get any worse…
…until they do.
When a terrible crime forces Merelin to flee for her life, she realizes she is not a victim of a horrible plot, but a pawn in a deadly game she never understood.
In the coming fight Merelin cannot stand alone…
…but can she unite her allies before it is too late?
Works in Progress
Runes of Light and Shadow: Episode 1 — Gifts
The first episode in a serial dark fantasy.
Unholy forces seek to unravel the very threads that bind the three realms of the cosmos together…
…the very threads that hold Chaos chained.
Witness to the treacherous plot are three people who ought to be enemies—a Shadow Guard of Nyfalla, Pyria’s Prince of Light, and a mortal girl with powers that should be impossible.
The survival of the cosmos may depend on their unlikely alliance…
…but first they have to avoid killing each other.