SHADE

​A re-imagination of the infamous birth of Frankenstein during an 1816 trip taken by Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley and John Polidori. Winner of the 2019 Realm Award in Horror and the 2019 Silver Moonbeam Award in Mystery/Horror.

Audio Release
December 1

They played at love and they played at writing, but when the monsters came, they played at survival. Frankenstein meets Dracula in this award-winning Gothic tale.

Audio Release
December 8

The endless winter drove strange beasts down the mountain, creatures with an insatiable hunger that also possessed the power to raise the dead.

Audio Release
​Coming Soon

Before she wrote the book that would change the literary world, she would break all rules of heaven and hell to raise her closest friend from the dead.

​Beware: This re-imagining of Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN also contains elements of Bram Stoker's DRACULA.

Coming in 2021...the Gold Edition of SHADE!

Winner of the 2019 Realm Award in Supernatural/Horror.
Winner of the 2019 Moonbeam Children's Book Award, Silver Medal: YA Horror/Mystery.​
​
The Gold Edition of SHADE: The Re-Imagining of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein will release in
both print and digital and both editions will contain extras--
​like a glossary and a map, PLUS advance chapters of the sequel WRATH.
​
ALSO, this new edition will release with an AUDIBLE version read by British narrator, Katherine Holt.

But you don't have to wait until 2021.
You can listen to a sample of the Audible version NOW on my Soundcloud page. 
Just click the button below!

SHADE
Before Mary Shelley wrote the book that changed the literary world, she broke all rules of heaven and hell to raise her closest friend from the dead...

2019 REALM AWARD WINNER—SUPERNATURAL/
​PARANORMAL/HORROR

2019 MOONBEAM CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD, SILVER MEDAL, YA HORROR/MYSTERY
A re-imagination of the infamous birth of Frankenstein during an 1816 trip taken by Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley and John Polidori.

​For fans of FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley, AND I DARKEN by Kiersten White, SOMETHING STRANGE AND DEADLY by Susan Dennard, and BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA.
Beware: This re-imagining of Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN also contains elements of Bram Stoker's DRACULA.

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RENEGADE: FREE Prequel Short Story

ROGUE: Novella: Coming Soon!

REBEL: Book 2: Coming Soon!

RENEGADE:
​FREE Prequel Short Story

She has one hour to save the world. 
​And the clock is ticking...

It's seventeen-year-old Sara's job to save Earth. The only problem is every time she's tried so far, she's failed. The fact that she can travel through time isn't helping either, especially when everyone believes she's the only person who simply cannot die—because she's the only one who can jumpstart all the events and give humanity one last chance. 

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Seventeen-year-old Sara has seen her brother die fourteen times. He's drowned, burned to death, been shot and stabbed. But this time is going to be different—this time he's going to live. Sara's going to make sure of it—because Sara has a secret. She can travel through time.
2019 YARWA Athena YA Award Winner, Second Place.

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Her life changed when she went
​to the wrong party...
To survive, she made a secret deal
​in the Underworld...

Her life changed when she
went to the wrong party...

Everything changed when Kira turned sixteen.
​That's when she found out the mysterious deaths in her family were actually murders.

And now she's next on the list...

Black Swan meets Fight Club

She can't remember how she went missing,
but the closer she comes to finding out the truth,
the more her life is in danger...
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