Currently under construction: Several standalone novels outside the Celestial Flora Series are in the works. Check back here for updates.
A Flicker in the Dark (In progress.)
On the junk moon of Acheron, salvage mechanic Jax is struggling to make ends meet. Having the Chrome Kings breathing down his neck about his debts isn't helping his stress levels in the slightest. Mina is a phase shifter -- a bio-engineered infiltrator from a ghost nebula colony who excels at espionage in low-light situations, thanks to the feline DNA integrated into her own. When an accidental EMP surge traps a phase shifting Mina in his shop, locking her molecular frequency to his biometric ID bracelet, they both end up with a companion they didn't want, because she can't get more than ten yards away from him without feeling like she's being shoved through a fuel hose. Infuriated by his perceived imprisonment, no matter how unintentional it was, Mina decides that making Jax's life a living hell is the best way to spend her time. That all changes when the Chrome Kings realize Jax is sitting on a veritable gold mine. Now the two have to escape the criminal syndicate, to save both their lives. But danger breeds strange bedfellows, and it seems something neither expected is starting to grow. When the impish infiltrator decides the grumpy mechanic is her person, will he choose her in return? Or will he set her free?
Bound in the Void (In progress.)
Ni'ara is on the run from the Order, a magi-technocratic society intent on using her for who knows what nefarious purpose. Raze is a demon hunter, pursuing her for the bounty put out by the Order. The only problem is, Ni'ara is no demon -- she's a Kyre, a species long thought extinct, valuable for their ability to process the raw energistic power of the extremely rare Solas stones. When Raze catches her, he quickly learns the bounty was lying about her being a demon. His intent to turn her in for the credits becomes a scramble to protect the female who has clawed her way beneath his skin, and to find her a way back home to her people. Despite her initial terror, Ni'ara soon begins to feel safe under his sheltering presence, and a part of her hungers for the sensations only he seems able to give her. But the Order is close behind them, and it's clear Raze will have a choice to make: To stay in the reality he's always known, or follow Ni'ara into a world few know anything about?
Starlight and Iron (In progress.)
Kavar is a wandering mercenary with a staunch personal code: Protect the innocent. Don't put down roots. There are no gifts, only transactions. The past stays there. When he makes an emergency landing in the frontier city of Horizon, his ship's engine throwing off an alarm for a malfunctioning part, his code is immediately activated at the sight of a man abusing a woman and two terrified children. He is judge, jury, and executioner. The man is put down like a diseased animal, with no thought to the consequences. Elara has lived fifteen years suffering the temper and cruelty of her husband, striving to protect their children from him, and thinks she'll never be free. Then a stranger in unfamiliar armor puts a bullet in his head, and suddenly, her future is wide open. Grateful and enamored, she invites Kavar back to their homestead, where her infatuation quickly becomes something much deeper. He makes repairs, he shows her children how to survive, he is gentle with his phase hound, Dagger -- who absolutely adores the whole family, to Kavar's annoyance. But he's unintentionally cruel, refusing to accept her kindness without making it a transaction, and she starts to lose hope of ever seeing his heart. Little do either of them know that his act of protection has started a chain of events that will force some very difficult choices. Will Kavar choose the life he's lived for years, or the simple life he could have with them? Or will Elara give up before he can decide?
Embers of Night (In progress.)
The Shattered Verge is a stretch of the galaxy defined by two extremes. The Spires, a series of floating bio-tech "world tree" space stations that house the Aurelians, a species of technomancers who disdain emotion almost as much as they do humankind. And The Rust Belt, a collection of city-planets where the dregs of the galaxy struggle to survive. Lyra is an Aurelian techno-empath, able to read data streams and digital memory by touching any technological item. When her people detect an energy signature belonging to ancient piece of technology, it can only be one thing: The Heart of the Dawn, an extremely powerful bio-tech battery that could restore the dying Spires. Lyra is sent to retrieve the sacred item with a stern mandate: Do no harm. Davin is a devil-may-care mercenary with cybernetic enhancements, in debt to the Neon Cards, a criminal organization that owns the Rust Belt moon of Dredge. When the boss of the Cards comes to Davin with a threat to get the powerful tech and have his debt cleared, or have his enhancements harvested off his corpse, he has only one choice. When the haughty techno-empath and the irreverent mercenary collide in the wake of a magnetic storm that disabled their ships, sparks fly -- in more ways than one. She hates him. He needles her. But passion takes many forms, and antagonism can easily become something more. Will the two give in and face the consequences? Or let it slip by like stardust on a solar wind?
Healing the Void (In progress.)
Axis is a planet torn in two by a belt of perpetual magnetic storms, separating the peaceful scientists of the Golden Sanctum from the highly augmented warriors of the Iron Wastes. The two city-states have been at war for centuries untold, and neither side seems to know how to resolve the conflict. Melira is a bio-medic, she and her sisters revered as priestesses for their healing abilities. Unlike her leaders, she thinks the passive "peace at all costs" temperament they've held for centuries is going to lead them to ruin. Intent on proving action is needed, she ventures outside the protective shield generated by G.I.A., the ancient machine that is worshiped as the Expanse's patron goddess. The last thing she expects to find is Kane, an augmented Reaver of the Iron Wastes, gravely injured in the wreck of a ship, but she does what any good medic does: She takes him back to her sanctuary, and does her best to save his life. When he wakes, they immediately start butting heads. He's grumpy, stubborn, and too handsome for his own good -- or hers. She's spirited, headstrong, and the most beautiful thing he's ever seen. When fighting turns to passion, their forbidden romance is destined to fail. Or is it?
The Gravity of a Crown (In progress.)
The nation of Solara is a collection of floating city-spires in the gold-and-white clouds of a gas giant, ruled over by the Crysalian Hegemony. Their leader is Queen Valeria, a core weaver whose very mind is tied to the life support of the city by a neural link. The nearby moon of Vorgos is a corporate city that runs the mines forming a hive beneath the moon's surface, supplying the crystals that keep Solara afloat. Garrick is a Storm Guard, one of the protectors of the moon's mines. When the primarch of Vorgos goes to Solara to negotiate trade, Garrick is tapped to accompany him. The last thing he expects is to end up married to Valeria, after a malfunctioning drone results in an accusation of inappropriate behavior and a threat of death. Valeria marries him to save his life, thinking it will just be a way to pacify her insistent advisors. But she learns that beneath the gruff demeanor and battered power armor is a gentle man with a protective nature. Danger lurks in the very halls of the floating palace, forcing Valeria and Garrick closer together, and bringing into life a heat that neither could've imagined. Will they have a storybook ending? Or will tragedy claim both Solara and Vorgos?
Storm and Steel (In progress.)
Emahra Untyrid was meant to be the queen of a nation. That all changed when she learned every last soul in her land was dead, wiped out by evil. Thrown into a world entirely unknown to her by dark magic, she found herself embroiled in a civil war between the industrialized Iron Empire, and the magical extremists known as the Jade Covenant. Fighting to keep them from taking over the world by destroying everything manmade with sentient forests, Emahra clashed again and again with a knight of the Covenant in armor so dark, it seemed to suck in the light around it. A man known as the Black Butcher. A man that she felt an inexplicable pull toward. One that she couldn't fight. When Emahra was ordered to cleanse a village of spies, only to find the Imperial soldiers setting flames to homes full of families, she discovered the truth: The Jade Covenant was not the enemy. With their lie exposed and their nefarious intentions revealed, the Empire turned on Emahra. That was when she learned the truth. The last thing she expected was to discover the man beneath the armor. Torin Corvus was nothing like she'd been led to believe. Not a cold-hearted killer, but instead a stalwart protector, atoning for his dark past. A man with a heart he guarded as closely as the people suffering beneath the Empire's hand. But it was a heart that resonated with her own, drawing them together like two celestial bodies destined to clash. Would their collision be the beginning of a bright new future, for the people of the Empire and Covenant alike? Or would it be a herald of the end?