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In this chapter we meet our old friend Count Leroi Shenen. *Note* The book is currently going through final edits and will be out in the next month.

Disgust almost curled the corner of Lord Marshal Leroi Shenen’s lips as he regarded the men and women around the table. Most were nobility so freshly minted he could smell the stink of lower class upon them. With a deep breath he suppressed the need to grimace. None of them deserved the positions they held, but good Kin...

Queen Terestere returns, plotting her vengeance. (Remember this is a chapter from the first draft prior to edits and thus, may change.)

Atop Danalyn’s great bulwark, Terestere watched King Ainslen leave the safety of the castle. Five Blades and one wiseman followed him, their horses cantering across the field toward the ranks of enemy soldiers in gleaming armor. A Blade carried a pennant flying the king’s Hand of Soul, the scaled fingers and pale blue depiction of so...

King Ainslen joins us in this chapter. (Remember this is a first draft before it has seen the editor and therefore it may change.)

“Doom.” King Ainslen Cardiff smiled as he uttered the word and maneuvered a gold-limbed Dracodar warrior across the game board and onto a black square in Queen Terestere’s castle.

The queen pursed her lips and tipped over her dragon king. “Well played.”

“Same to you.” The king analyzed the board, all the pieces he’d lost, and considered the pre...

Winslow’s partbegins in the third chapter of Crown of Souls, The Quintessence Cycle Book 3. (Remember, this is a draft before edits.)

I won’t fail this time. Brows furrowed in determination Winslow Giorin wobbled on a thin branch of an ancient white ash tree at least a hundred feet above the ground. He caught his breath and clung to the sliver of soul that kept him attached to the branch through tern, certain he would fall at the slightest breeze or that the sweat soaking hi...

Thar’s story begins inChapter 2 of Crown of Souls, Quintessence Cycle Book 3.

(Remember this is a raw draft before it has seen the editor)

Wrists and ankles chafed by the manacles, Thar followed the line of prisoners along a beach churned by battle. Heads down, they trudged beside their Farlander captors, offering as much resistance as a feather might to the wind. The clink of chains between hands or feet was near incessant, so was the crash of distant waves agains...

As the title says, here is the first chapter in Crown of Souls, the Quintessence Cycle Book 3. (Remember this is content before it has seen the editor.)

The yellowed infection of mineral deposits spread along the mountainside opposite and below Keedar Giorin. A honeycomb of mines pockmarked the rock face like entrances to the Ten Hells. Smoke billowed up from the brick ovens scattered across the incline. Noxious. Acrid. A henhouse filled with rotten eggs. Despite th...

The next installment of the Quintessence Cycle here!

Madness. Death. Bounty hunters. A fanatic cult. Assassins. A ruthless king. That is what seven year old Clara Rostlin faces now that she has calledupon her soul magic.

Follow her mother, Aidah Rostlin, as she tries to save Clara and Elysse from the ruthless King Ainslen who wants to feed on the young ones’ souls, from the Farlanders who wish to slay Clara, and from the Order of the Dominion who would use the little girl’s powers for their own...

Yup, Soulsworn, a Quintessence Cycle novel, now has a cover. The book will be out within the next few weeks. Had to check and double check to get everything all lined up. Prefer that to a release that wasn’t ready. Well, here she is.

This book is set between Game of Souls and Soulbreaker. It followsAidah Rostlin as she tries to save her daughters from Ainslen Cardiff, thieves, bounty hunters, and zealots. It delves into the western lands of Carador and Berendal and gives the reader a glimpse i...

Yup, Soulsworn, a Quintessence Cycle novella, now has a cover. The book will be out within the next few weeks. Had to check and double check to get everything all lined up. Prefer that to a release that wasn’t ready. Well, here she is.

This book is set between Game of Souls and Soulbreaker. It followsAidah Rostlin as she tries to save her daughters from Ainslen Cardiff, thieves, bounty hunters, and zealots. It delves into the western lands of Carador and Berendal and gives the reader a glimpse...

Yes, it is. many of you enjoyed Game of Souls, well, after over a year, finally here is book 2 in the Quintessence Cycle.

Chaos rules in the wake of Succession Day, even in the heart of the Empire’s capital, Kasandar, where commoners revolt and counts and priests plot. All across the world, armies rise to strike at King Ainslen’s fledgling rule.

Queen Terestere is captured and returned to the city where they murdered her husband, intent on saving her people, and set on vengeance. Keedar and Win...