Works in progress


Digital Magics

Abandoned in our world Puck the Trickster from Chasing the Bard is much changed. Magic has dimmed, and science has taken its place. In the small English village of Penherem though memories of the Fey are stirring. Puck senses things he has not for centuries, and is drawn to find out what lurks beneath the surface of the village. Magic may be gone from most of England, but Art still dwells in other lands, and a child from distant New Zealand, may carry within her the seeds of its rebirth.
Status:Slated to be released by DragonMoon Press August 2008.

The Gifts trilogy

In a world of chaos, there are heroes turned villain, and villains whose motives are not necessarily dark.
Talis is the Hunter for the Caisah, and a wreck of a once proud person. She has lost her people, and her soul. Salvation though is looking for her, and it wears the face of gentleness and strength.
A tale of redemption in a land of darkness, where determination is not always a positive attribute.
Status:being pitched



Geist


Deacon Sorcha Faris has plenty of supernatural problems and also her fair share of real life ones. A terrible riot caused by a geist attack has left her partner and husband badly injured and is assigned a new partner that she doesn't want. Merrick Chambers is young, talented and tormented by what he saw Sorcha do to his family years before. A good start to any partnership. As Active and Sensitive they are supposed to work seamlessly as a team. Sorcha wonders what their Abbot was thinking.
In the north, the Young Pretender to the throne that Sorcha’s Emperor now sits on, is struggling to find a safe harbor to make repairs to his ship. When Raed Rossin is offered the isolated village of Ulrich, he is grateful. However he cannot know that his ancient familial curse and the rising threat of the unliving were combine to make this place the most dangerous place for him to go.
Status: 1st edit being produced

Tales of the Awakened Epoch

First Child

Jack Cunningham comes home from the Great War. He has served his country, but in doing so has opened his mind to the symbiote found only in the first generation of children born in New Zealand. With the mixed blessings of the seraphim in his head, he faces magic and madness and rejection by his family.
Faith Louden has been Awakened since a child. She loves her seraphim but dreads the power he enables her to touch.
In a world that values and fears the children of New Zealand, there are those that will hate them and those that will try to harness their power. Faith's cousin Lily has been thrust into being Awakened. She and her damaged seraphim may be the answer to many questions.
Set in an alternate New Zealand, where magic and isolation have created a unique place.
Status: 1st draft completed, awaiting editing

On Southern Seas

Missionaries, whalers, escaped convicts and adventurers are all drawn to distant southern shores as the nation is on the cusp of creation. Captain Jocelyn Bennetts was born here, among harsh missionary parents, and she has learned the secret that only the first people of the land, the Maori know. She has become one of the first of the new Awakened. The power that her seraphim lets her control must now be put to use in defence of this emerging nation, as the whole world seeks to control the magic it alone holds.
Taking to the seas with an American adventurer of undoubted charm, Joce must master that power, stymie both French and English slave ships, and work out what exactly has the seraphim so afraid.
Status: on hold

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