Fire and Shadow
(available now from Drollerie Press)
Every evening, when the mist began to rise, mothers came out to call their children home...
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Frayed Tapestry
(available now from Drollerie Press)
The first time it happened was almost a year after he'd married her. They were giving a drinks party, and the spacious top-floor apartment was filled with sleek, beautiful people...
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Falling
(available now as part of the StereoOpticon anthology from Drollerie Press)
Although Linnet could hear the city, she never saw it. If she leaned out of her bedroom window she looked down through clear air, past the shining sides of tower blocks, to the smog where it shifted around the lowest levels of the towers...
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Dust and Dead Roses
(published in Scattered Things ezine)
She looked dead, and it threw him.
Everything else had been as he'd anticipated - more or less. The forest, undisturbed for a hundred years, had been thick with a green twilight almost as dark as night, but that, of course, was part of the legend.
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Helen
(exclusive to Drollerie Press)
At first I just accepted it, as all children accept the story of how they came to be.
But as I grew - eleven, twelve - I began to think, what had it been like for her? For my mother?
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Meeting in Darkness
It was her voice he heard first, coming light and sharp across the hotel lobby.
"No ground floor rooms? But Uncle Kerian, you promised."
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Gaps
Over and over, Meg kept thinking she could see something behind the glass panels of the door.
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Fantasy, science fiction, re-imagined myths and fairy tales...
crossover fiction for young adults and adults.
Welcome to my website. Right now I have three ebooks for sale - available from Amazon, Fictionwise, Mobipocket or direct from my publisher, Drollerie Press. To try out my writing, please help yourself to the current free reads listed further down in the sidebars.
Coming in September
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Heart of the Volcano
Caught between love and duty, can she make an impossible choice?
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Fern has lived half her life in fear of the Shadows, predatory creatures who move within the darkness and whose touch means death. When she discovers she has the legendary gift of fire-starting, she knows she may hold the key to their destruction.
But the unpredictable gift is curse as well as blessing. With the help of Nik, the enigmatic magician, Fern must learn - and learn fast - how to use it.
But can Nik be trusted? Or is he hiding secrets of his own?
Click to buy Fire and Shadow
direct from Drollerie Press
or here to buy from Fictionwise, Amazon or Mobipocket.
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comments on Fire and Shadow:
"...definitely a story anyone can enjoy from young to old, a young adult dark fantasy that will keep you turning the pages till the very end."
(Orange Blossom at
The Long and the Short of It)
"...Once again, I loved every moment!"
(Michelle at
Book Club Forum Book Reviews)
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To read an excerpt from Fire and Shadow, click
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For reviews click
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Candy's living a very sophisticated happily ever after...
Except her husband is a little scary, she doesn't remember how she got here, and she's pretty sure that's not her real name.
Click to buy Frayed Tapestry
direct from Drollerie Press
or here to buy from Amazon or Mobipocket.
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comments on Frayed Tapestry:
"...a fascinating and refreshingly different take on an old myth."
(Isabelle Santiago at
Twisted Fairytale)
"...sets the bar incredibly high and surpasses it. Her descriptions are rich and
lush. Her writing is like a good glass of wine at the end of the day.
To have a taste of her stories is to fall in love with words all over again."
(Jennifer Leeland at
The Redneck Romance Writer)
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To read an excerpt from Frayed Tapestry, click
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Safety is an illusion.
When the world crumbles into chaos, only a chosen few can afford the luxury of life in towers built to soar far above
the pollution and destruction on the ground.
Life up in the air is full of beautiful things and beautiful people. What happens when you're not one of them?
What happens when everything you believed about the world turns out to be a lie?
You fall. Or you learn how to fly...
Falling is now only available as part of the StereoOpticon anthology from Drollerie Press.
Click to buy StereOpticon
direct from Drollerie Press
or here to buy from Mobipocket.
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comments on Falling:
"...intriguing, involving, and unassumingly unique." (
Teen eBooks)
"...your voice is one that I really enjoyed." (
Dear Author)
"Falling is a wonderful young adult romance." (
Coffee Time Romance)
"...beautifully written, pulling you straight in, and not letting go until long after you read the last word." (
Book Club Forum Book Reviews)
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To read an excerpt from Falling, click
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