Novels

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And the Dark Will Know My Name

Adult – Horror – 68,800 words

Current status: Full available (email me for more details)

Comps: Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen x At Dark, I Become Loathesome by Eric LaRocca x The Faceless Thing We Adore by Hester Steele

Ash has just been released from a psychiatric hold following a suicide attempt, and her life is in shambles. Her parents are angry and overprotective; her best friend Kelsie has abandoned her for being too exasperating; and her graduate school work is suffering, bringing her to the brink of expulsion. Spiraling and overwhelmed, witchy Ash tries to put a curse into the universe, so that anyone who tries to fuck with her will hurt like she hurts. Later, in a moment of clarity, she recants the curse.

Then a man who ghosts her for a date is murdered. Surely it can’t be the curse she recanted? At first, she’s able to shake off the impending emotional spiral with the help of her therapy group friend Leticia and crush Dara. However, strange things continue to happen. Her window is broken by an unknown stranger. Kelsie’s apartment is broken into and Kelsie blames her. But when her skeazy professor is murdered right in front of her, she has to accept the facts—someone is stalking her and the people around her. Someone who looks exactly like her.

With the clock ticking until someone makes the connection between the murderer and Ash, Ash turns to her friends for help. To save everyone from the monster, Ash and her friends will have to work together to figure out what it is and how to slay it. But killing it might mean, for Ash, facing her darkest inner demons, the ones she’s been ignoring for years. If she doesn’t, it could mean the deaths of everyone around her.

The Shattered City

Adult – Dystopian / Dark Fantasy – 93,000 words

Current status: Querying, full available (email me for more details)

Comps: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir x Metal From Heaven by August Clarke x V for Vendetta

You never expect your lover to betray you—even if you were trying to illegally resurrect your dead sister. Daquar and Ritraru, healer-necromancers, were lovers, until Daquar’s betrayal sent Ritraru into a life of hiding, while Daquar rose to prominence as a government healer.

Ten years later, for Daquar, the rules are everything; one wrong move and she’ll be executed like her treasonous parents. But the rules can’t save her from being kidnapped by rebels—including Ritraru, who forces her to heal at his clinic for the poor. While plotting her escape, Daquar witnesses the true ravages of the governmental system and begins to despise her role in maintaining it. Because Thylen, plagued by an eternal epidemic, is a machine; its caste system determines how lavishly you live, and how soon the Rot will kill you dead.

Ritraru still loathes Daquar—at least, he thinks he does. But the closer they work together, the more he sees that her hidden compassion and unrestrained cleverness might lead her into the rebellion—and back into his heart. The deeper Ritraru and his friends are drawn into rebellion, however, the closer they come to a choice: slow dissidence or violent extremism.

To save the city, Daquar and Ritraru will have to rely on each other—and the love resurrecting between them. If they can’t abolish the totalitarian regime, they’ll be executed as traitors just like Daquar’s parents—but when winning means killing, they’ll have to decide whether to protect their consciences or their liberty.

Miracle Girl

Adult – Horror

Current status: WIP

Comps: The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir x Diavola by Jennifer Thorne x The Exorcist by William Beatty

To expel her dead sister’s soul from her body, Beth must seek help from defrocked priest Sebastian—before her sister takes over.

Beth, a thirty-five-year-old insurance broker with OCD, is starting to think that her habitual nightmares are more than just bad dreams. She’s sleepwalking, hallucinating, even trying to strangle her roommate. Her religious grandma is convinced: Beth is possessed. Beth isn’t totally buying it, but she’s willing to seek spiritual guidance from her roommate’s old Theology TA Sebastian, now a Professor—and also a defrocked Catholic priest.

Sebastian just wants to perform a miracle. No small task—but it might be his only way back into the Church’s good graces after his forbidden romantic relationship got him kicked off the pulpit. Repentant and desperate, he agrees to take Beth’s case.

Only neither of them expect to discover that the spirit possessing Beth is her sister Janie, who died before Beth was born. Beth has always lived under Janie’s shadow; now she’s her living vessel. Janie wants out, and she wants vengeance on anyone trying to expel her from Beth. Exorcising Janie will be Sebastian’s chance at a miracle—but first, Beth and Sebastian must answer the terrifying question: how did Janie come to possess Beth in the first place?

The Prophet of Heartland Hospital

Adult – Horror

Current status: WIP

Comps: The Faceless Thing We Adore by Hester Steele x Whisper Down the Lane by Clay McLeod Chapman x The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle

To save their town from being devoured by a demon, Johnny and his friends will have to hone their psychokinetic powers, escape their mental hospital, and take down a cult of ruthless psychiatrists.

The Satanic Panic never ended in Cary, Illinois. In 1994, in its last gasps, eighteen-year-old Johnny tries to take his own life during a manic episode. His distraught parents ship him off to Heartland Christian Hospital for the Mentally Ill, where the psychiatrists try to convince him that Satanic ritual abuse and AC/DC are the cause of his ills. Their repressed memory hypnosis therapy seeks to unlock the truth beyond his Bipolar Disorder.

Johnny isn’t convinced by their therapy; he just wants to finish what he started. Then, strange occurrences distract him: his roommate goes missing, there is a rash of suicides, and Johnny himself discovers that he can move objects with his mind. His psychiatrist Dr. Shepherd wants to hone Johnny’s “God-given” powers, and those of the other gifted young men, to create an army against the Devil. To stamp out Satan from America once and for all.

Only Johnny and his new friends aren’t convinced that Dr. Berger, the hospital’s director, has such divine designs. In fact, every clue seems to suggest that he is responsible for the suicides. He wants the boys and their powers—but for what? To summon a demon? To raise Satan himself? Johnny and his crew had better figure it out, before Dr. Berger can wreak destruction on the hospital, Cary, and the world.

The Priest of Teeth

Adult – Fantasy

Current status: WIP

Comps: The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson x Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir x Gods of the Wyrd Wood by R.J. Barker

Alistair Canter is the Priest of Teeth, the God of Teeth’s main adherent and voice in Aine ma’Caness and the world. And he’s lonely. Always an outcast, he has few friends and, as the priest of a lower god, no political power. He thirsts for fame, fortune, and making a name for himself. When the Priest of Eyes, a greater god, dies of old age, all the priests are summoned to the capital, for the Priest of Eyes left one final prophecy: his successor must be chosen from among the current priests.

Agnet ma’Dale is a soldier in a famed mercenary band. Sold into indenture as a child, she has long dreamt of freedom. She has also just returned from three years of war in Zambar and Salsacia and finds herself twitchy and out of sorts. She’s done with this life. She wants out. She needs a final, lucrative job to buy out her indenture.

While at the capital vying for the position of new Priest of Eyes, Alistair and the others find out that the Priest of Eyes did not die—he was murdered. Terrified for his life, Alistair hires mercenary Agnet to protect him as he battles through the competition, a trek up the highlands to an abandoned castle with nine strange trials across the way.

But two things happen that he never expects: he rises to the top of the competition, and he begins to fall in love with Agnet, which is a crime against his vows. His stay in the limelight makes him a target, and his new feelings make him confused and vulnerable. Leaving means forfeiting the competition but staying might mean death. Alistair and Agnet seek to stay one step ahead of the murderer—before Alistair is next. But what future is there for a Priest and a mercenary?