Fiction Books
Fiction
I write gritty, heartfelt, sexy mysteries and urban fantasy. I love the twists and turns of both a good story and human connection. My characters are real people even when they’re in super-real situations. They love, lust, yearn, and strive. Most often, they’re also artists of one sort or another. If you’re into that, check out the work below.
Die by the Sword
Die By The Sword, is the first book in the Cassie Belmont Tarot Reader mysteries series. Cassie Belmont, a professional tarot card reader, works with the police to solve crimes in Washington DC. When someone starts killing people and leaving them looking like her tarot cards, Cassie has to find the killer before he strikes again.
Die By The Sword (Order the Book at Amazon, Draft2Digital, Kobo, or for Nook! You can also get an autographed paperback copy from my shop.)
The Functional Tarot Deck featured in the Tarot Reader Mysteries series
In a New York Minute
The first anthology of micro-fiction from the Vegan Writers of NYC, the book was released on February 21, 2023.
How do you write a story that’s exciting, meaningful, and profound in just ten minutes? Can you write one with great characters and exciting plots that will leave readers wanting more? The Vegan Writers of NYC decided to put these questions to the test.
With word prompts providing inspiration, they wrote stories that speak of the human experience. Step inside and perhaps some of those prompts will inspire you to write your own tale.
The Fiddler’s Talisman
The Fiddler’s Talisman: Book One of The Fairy Godmother Diaries
New York City is only a hop, skip, and Ley Line jump away from the Fairy Lands. And if anyone can make it there, it’s Fairy Godmother, Evie Songbottom.
Evie isn’t your childhood Fairy Godmother. She prefers whiskey to glitter, movies to wishes, and music to just about anything.
But she’ll need more than a bottle of Jameson and a bad attitude to guide her Charge, violin prodigy, Joanna Brennan. Born of fairy ancestors, Joanna caught her boyfriend cheating with her Juilliard roommate. Now, her magic-tinged sorrow is flooding New York with disaster.
Evie will have to navigate the treacherous landscape of Joanna’s wounded soul, and her own forbidden new love, before Joanna’s grief rips apart the fabric of all the worlds.
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The Piano’s Key
The Piano’s Key: Book Two of The Fairy Godmother Diaries
Against all odds, Evie Songbottom and Joanna Brennan defeated the Bane Zeke Dunne and the Ramrocks. As a bonus, Evie earned her Level 4 Fairy Godparent stripes. But now, they face new challenges. While Joanna becomes a guide to her own students, Evie leaves New York and her love, Daniel, to continue her training in the Fairy Lands.
After Daniel is attacked and left for dead, Evie returns to New York to find that he has no memory of her or of their lives together. She vows to protect him while he embarks on a new life without her.
Foes, old and new, surround Evie as she tries to help Daniel and guide her new charge to his destiny. When a terrifying new danger threatens the world, bonds are destroyed, alliances are forged, and good and evil clash in an explosive battle that will decide the fate of both worlds.
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Works in Progress
The Gemma Blackthorne True Crime Podcaster Mysteries series. Meet Gemma Blackthorne, a true crime podcaster who solves ancient mysteries (like Jamestown, the Beale Ciphers, or the Dancing Plague of 1518), and she’s funded by a shadowy group called the Need to Know Collective. But her greatest case? That’s the one she’s determined to solve or die trying. The first part of the first novel is available here.
Midlife On Fire
New York State of Crime
Anthology from Sisters In Crime (Tri-State, New York Chapter)
Read a short story in the Tarot Card Thriller world. The Celestial Queen appears in this anthology. Cassie Belmont leaves her native Washington DC and travels to New York where a powerful talisman is stolen. She must use her intuitive and investigative skills to find the object and catch the thief before more grave dangers plague the attendants of the Celestial Concordat.
The sixth anthology from the New York/New Jersey, Connecticut chapter of Sisters in Crime was a Derringer Award finalist and is available for purchase on Amazon.
I’m thrilled to announce that I’m one of the contributors to Midlife On Fire, the bestselling anthology.
This anthology I’m in reached #1 in two Amazon categories!
