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Book 1 of the Landers Saga
The odor of burning flesh and the screams of those condemned to the flames disturb the dreams of young Safire of Long Marsh. Safire struggles to keep the curse of her psychic abilities secret, lest she be burned at the stake as a witch in her native land Cormalen. Forced to keep her talents hidden instead of learning...

When quiet artist Sewell of Landers and soulful selkie Rhyannon fall in love, they yearn to marry as soon as possible. But their families have doubts about the match, for they come from different worlds. Rhyannon is a peasant, while Sewell is not only a noble, but a son of the phoenix, whose song remains the most powerful weapon in the realm. It...

Lycora drifts off to sleep one night in her tower chamber and awakens a century later to snow falling through the crumbling roof over her bed. Stunned and grieving her lost world, she discovers her cousin also shares the curse. They set out together to learn how a hundred years passed while they slept and find themselves caught in a web of...

When a warlock steals an egg from a phoenix nest and brings it to the afterlife, he hopes to bargain his way out of Hell. However, the thief’s wicked scheme doesn’t work out quite as he plans, and the egg winds up in the possession of Hades, the ruler of the dead. Desperate to hatch the egg, Hades and his loyal servant Dante seek Zeus’s advice....

Grieving the death of one family member and the loss of another, the remaining Landers draw even closer than before. Together, they search for the means to recover their lost wife and sister and daughter, in the process exploring the furthest reaches of their realm and beyond. Their adventures revive an ancient magic that offers the chance to...

Book Three of the Phoenix Realm.
The Landers have so far foiled the sorceress Saranay’s attempts to lure their beloved bird-girl Avreal to the Eldest Realm. Desperate and thwarted, Saranay sinks to new lows to gain power over her prey. Meanwhile, the conniving Spider King, newly apprised of his granddaughters’ ability to become hawks, threatens...

Book Two of the Phoenix Realm

One spring night under the scimitar moon, Princess Kelene of Numer and her mother frolic as mermaids in the ocean waves, unaware until it’s too late that her youngest brother has followed them--and drowned. When this tragedy plunges her mother into grief-stricken shock, Kelene sets out to find Dominic of Landers,...

Book One of the Phoenix Realm

Avreal of Landers just knows there is something wrong with her, despite her family’s protests to the contrary. She has no navel, and she loses her voice on occasion, sometimes unable to talk for months at a time. Her older brother Dominic, a young warlock struggling with his own demons, remembers what his sister...

When Queen Jazmene of Sarneth assassinates her brother with the help of her lover Lord Toscar and the witch Undene, she hopes to gain control of her ancestral throne. However, the unexpected birth of an heir thwarts her plans . . . for the moment.When young witch artist Safire of Landers travels with her husband Merius to Sarneth, she no longer...

Book 3 of the Landers Saga

An embittered priest. A hidden history of ancient magic, long suppressed. An ambitious noble family with too many secrets. And at the center of it all, a witch artist named Safire . . .

Book Four of the Landers Saga

What if tragedy forced the one you love best to become the world’s most powerful weapon? What would you tell your children?

The Landers are no strangers to international intrigue. However, when bizarre circumstance suddenly thrusts them in the center of the known world’s stage, they find themselves beset from all...

Kiss the flame . . . Love defies family, king, religion, even death itself in a skewed Renaissance world of witch burnings, swordfights, and court intrigue. Read how the Landers Saga begins in the prequel Fledgling Witch,

In the wake of her mother’s death, young Safire fights for her footing as an artist and a witch in a world that punishes...

Books 1 - 4 of the Landers Saga

This omnibus edition includes The Witch Awakening, Tapestry Lion, Phoenix Ashes, and The Curious Fear of High and Lonely Places.

Kiss the flame . . . Love defies family, king, religion, even death itself in a skewed Renaissance world of witch burnings, swordfights, and court intrigue. Safire, a psychic artist...

"THE TIME SHOP . . . what does it mean? Can you buy precious minutes there? Priceless hours? Slightly used months from a wastrel's life for cheap? Fifty years for a golden jubilee? Six decades for a diamond one?" These poems invite us to explore our shadow and our fragile, yet beautiful, mortality and what may come after through stories in...

Far across the sea from the mortal world lies a vast wilderness where phoenixes have existed for a thousand years. They guard the dream garden, a sacred place of untapped spiritual power. Now that Dominic of Landers has vanquished the warden of the western seas in a magical fight and broken the spell binding the phoenixes to their land, they are...