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The Lost Road Chronicles and Books 1-3 of The Madness Method are available for purchase. See book details below for buy links.
The Madness Project (The Madness Method, Book 1)
In a world that shuns magic…
…the Crown Prince hides his power.
But how long can he keep it secret?
Seventeen-year-old Prince Tarik is only too happy to ignore his magical powers, until an underground society of mages is blamed for a ruthless assassination plot.
None of his father’s spies can get close to the group.
Tarik is the only one who can, if he uses his long-buried power. But who can he turn to for help?
Friendship is a strange word on the streets…
…and trust is stranger still. But as Tarik fights to stay undetected with plots of rebellion tightening around him, he wins an unlikely ally in Hayli, a shapeshifter mage.
Hayli has spent her life on the streets, trying to forget her own strange magic. Meeting Tarik brings her closer to her power than she ever believed possible. But is he too dangerous to trust?
If they join forces, will they be strong enough to survive the city’s darkest currents…
…or will they fall together?
You’ll love this dark fantasy, because a little madness never hurt anyone.
A Dark So Deep (The Madness Method, Book 2)
Beloved prince, rebel, traitor…
…Tarik brought his country to the brink of war.
Can he now bring peace before he loses his own sanity?
With Hayli in the grips of the Science Ministry and his allies in hiding, Tarik must wrestle his own demons before he forgets his reason for fighting.
Some believe he is the key to defusing the hostilities.
Some believe he is the only one who can save the mages from annihilation…
…but at what cost?
While Tarik fights to protect his people, Hayli must defend her life and her sanity long enough to escape her captors. But can she ever truly be free?
As the lines between loyalty and betrayal blur, only one question matters.
If the price for peace is too high…
…is war the only option?
You’ll love this dark fantasy, because war is all fun and games until someone gets hurt.
A Sea Like Glass ( The Madness Method, #3)
Tarik, Hayli and their crew tried to stop the insurgency…
…but they failed.
The monarchy has fallen, the nation is leaderless, and world war looms.
Heartbroken, Tarik escapes Cavnal and risks everything on a perilous voyage to the harsh and hostile country of Istia…
…to secure an alliance that could stop the war.
But the only way to win the Istians’ support is to take power. Can he win their trust before it’s too late?
Or is his mind already too lost to madness to be saved?
Without Tarik’s leadership, Hayli and the remnants of his crew try to put the pieces of their lives back together. But then a rogue mage arrives in Brinmark with a claim that should be impossible…
…a claim that threatens the last fragile threads of stability in Cavnal.
And even as nations rise and fall and war creeps closer, ancient powers are stirring, sweeping everything—and everyone—into their eternal conflict.
You’ll love this dark fantasy, because when the gods go to war, no one can escape the fight.
Down a Lost Road (Lost Road Chronicles, Book 1) — YA Fantasy
The way her summer vacation is beginning might be everything 16-year-old Merelin Lindon ever imagined — in her wildest daydreams. It begins the day she receives a strange medallion from the convenience store clerk, of all people. When she learns that the medallion belonged to her father, who has been missing for four years, her whole world starts changing. Literally. Before she realizes it, she finds herself drawn into a strange world somehow linked to Earth’s mythical past.
Better still, waiting for her there is the most fascinating, attractive, and at times infuriating boy she has ever met. Only Yatol seems to know an awful lot about her already. And…her father. That’s when things take a turn for a nightmarish worse. Merelin learns that her father not only came from this world, but is here now, held captive by his people’s ancient enemy. The quasi-dead beings called the Ungulion are preparing for open war, and they are hunting Merelin obsessively. Supported by Yatol’s mysterious strength and the growing bond between them, Merelin chooses to hazard everything, to suffer things she never imagined, in a foolhardy quest to rescue her father and save his people. But it may cost her more than she can imagine…
Subverter (Lost Road Chronicles, Book 2)
A year has passed since the Judgment, and Merelin Lindon is beginning to believe she will never return to the world she loved. But when she begins to suffer from strange visions of a life and a love she left behind, visions that grow darker and harsher with each passing day, she comes to understand that her role in Arah Byen is far from over.
But nothing can prepare her for what she will find. Peace should have been returning to the world, but a new enemy has crept from the shadows, plotting the overthrow of all that Merelin holds dear. With everything turned upside-down and nothing as it seems, Merelin must discover whose side she is really on, and who she can trust, before it is too late.
But how can she know who to trust, when she isn’t even sure she can trust herself?
Prism (Lost Road Chronicles, Book 3)
Forced to take on a new identity to protect herself from a still-angry people, Merelin Lindon wants nothing more than to help bring the world of Arah Byen into some kind of balance. But nothing is going as planned. The High King Zhabyr is falling apart. Merelin’s allies have scattered, and even Yatol is acting more mysterious and tormented than ever. And just when Merelin believes things can’t get any worse, she is framed for a terrible crime, and deserted by those who should have defended her.
But Merelin soon realizes that she is not the victim of a horrible plot, but just one more pawn in a deadly game she never really understood. It is the game immortals play, and nothing can prepare her for the truths that are coming to light, or the enemy she knows she will have to face.
In the coming fight Merelin cannot stand alone. But can she bring her allies together before it is too late?
OTHER STORIES
Runes of Light and Shadow
Shadow and Light. Night and day. The war between the Ethers has no beginning. No one believes it will ever have an end. Though human life depends on their stalemate, the Ethers have little concern for mortals…until one girl finds herself at the very heart of the war. Caught between Atan, the Splendor, and Emery, a Shadow, Therrei must learn that the price of freedom is love, and that survival never comes without sacrifice.
The Grey Tide (fantasy)
Braden Lockail is the son of the greatest living hero. His father, Tharon Tescelin, is the subject of songs and legends; he is Dragonsage, Knight, King’s Lord and most trusted Councilor. Though Braden is only seven years old, he understands that behind all the honor and glory, a hero’s life is one of great sacrifice and sadness—spending long years away from home, abandoning loved ones to loneliness and uncertainty, being hated as much as loved…and sometimes even more.
A hero is the last thing Braden wants to become.
But as he grows, the ten gifts of the Ten Tyrin begin awakening in him, and Braden realizes that the simple life he longs for will never be his. And as he tries to sort out the overwhelming burden of the gifts, he discovers that he is embroiled in a political struggle that is just one facet of a larger conflict with the Bolistran—the cult of sorcerers—and their leader, the Grey Lord Alidur himself.