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The Lord Apparent’s Razor

December 28, 2019 Comments Off

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Haunted by the ghosts of mutilated servant girls, desperate Castellan Dubric risked his staff to catch their killer. His bold move failed, and page Lars Hargrove nearly died. But Lars saw a scratch on Dubric’s prime suspect, Lord Risley Romlin who is grandson of the king and Faldorrah’s lord. Risley has motive, opportunity, a collapsible razor similar to the killer’s, and an ever-increasing obsession with linen maid Nella.Each morning brings another dead servant girl in the snow, each girl missing her kidneys and hair, each razor-slashed more viciously than the victim before. Residents of the castle grow angrier every day and demand Risley’s arrest, but Dubric has to be certain of Risley’s guilt before risking war. At least until Dubric’s own guards are killed beside the women they failed to protect.

The Linen Maid’s Choice

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An unseen killer has hunted servant girls in the halls and courtyard of Castle Faldorrah for days, leaving eleven dribbling ghosts to haunt aging castellan Dubric Byerly with the weight of their deaths. The three surviving victims—Dubric’s page Lars, herald Beckwith, and, finally, linen maid Nella—offer only more questions until Nella’s benefactor and romantic pursuer, Lord Risley Romlin, defiant grandson of the King and Faldorrah’s Lord, forcibly kidnapped Nella and held her in his private suite, supposedly to protect her.

Dubric knew better.

A package soon arrived at Dubric’s suite, a vile, taunting collection of gruesome mementos, all leading directly to Nella and Risley’s desperate need to possess her. Now certain of Risley's guilt, Dubric arrests the young lord and locks him deep beneath the castle.

Risley's imprisonment and the lack of new murders does little to quell the fury as castle residents demand Risley’s immediate execution. Nella alone stands true, insisting her beloved is innocent. Despite assurances assurance that justice prevails, Nella takes steps to protect Risley, steps that undermine Dubric’s desperate attempts to avoid a war.

Protection of the Holy Knights

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Haunted by the ghosts of mutilated servant girls, desperate Castellan Dubric risked his page to look for ghost-stuff and catch their invisible killer. His bold move failed, and his page, Lars, nearly died. But Lars saw a scratch on Dubric’s prime suspect, Lord Risley Romlin, grandson of the king, who has motive, opportunity, a weapon similar to the killer’s, and an obsession with linen maid Nella.Each morning, another servant girl dies under the killer’s razor, each murder more vicious than the last and their bodies left in the snow. Details of the murders suggest dark magic is involved, magic Dubric had fought a war to defeat, and soon guards are murdered beside the women they were ordered to protect. Meanwhile Risley, determined to win Nella’s heart and ensure her safety at any cost, makes a bold move of his own.

Rabbits and Wasps

July 19, 2020 Comments Off

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One by one, young men in the kingdom’s outer reaches are vanishing into the dark. So far, two bodies have washed up on the local riverbank. But Dubric Byerly, head of security at Castle Faldorrah, soon realizes there are countless more victims . . . for it’s his curse to be forever haunted by the ghosts of those whose deaths demand justice.

The latest to vanish is Braoin, a seventeen-year-old painter whose mother came to Dubric’s aid when he most needed it. All Dubric knows is that the boy is still alive. But time is running out...

The Killer’s Lair

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An invisible slasher hunts Castle Faldorrah, slaughtering servant girls and stealing their kidneys and hair. Only Nella, Risley Romlin’s beloved, survived an attack which had left her battered in the snow, and soon the castle’s people called for the young lord’s head. Faldorrah’s aging Castellan, Dubric, declared Risley innocent but, with the killer’s dark magic tainting the food supplies, the castle’s people remain convinced of Risley’s guilt. Furious, they form a mob to bring him to justice even if they have to disassemble the castle to get to him.

Dubric and Risley’s brother Aswin, the Seer of Truth, hide Risley, Nella, and their knights in the castle cellars while they hunt the slasher, but Risley, desperate to protect Nella, flees right into the slavering mob. Attacked, injured, and unable to track the beast who had preyed upon the castle, Risley soon becomes overwhelmed helpless to watch Nella disappear into the slasher’s magic.
Risley has to escape the mob and rescue Nella. Somehow. Before the slasher kills her too. But that’s tough to do when the man who kidnapped her is invisible. It’s tougher still with a cabal of concerned citizens calling for your execution and a noose tightening around your neck.

A Film of Blindness

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Risley Romlin killed the murderer who’d plagued his grandfather’s castle and tortured his beloved Nella. The horror of the castle slasher finally behind them, Risley and Nella thought they could rest and heal in a nearby village, but Inek, the man who’d corrupted the slasher and sent him to slaughter servant girls, wasn’t done.

Hells, he’s barely started, and now he needs a new apprentice.

Only Risley and Nella stand between him and another murderous rampage. But Risley’s still injured, Nella can’t walk…

And Inek can wield magic.

Morgan’s Run

July 21, 2020 Comments Off

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Abuse survivor Morgan Miller doesn't do complicated or Tricky.
She runs.

When the one person she trusts - her online employer and best friend, Darcy Harris - dies, Morgan lands in rural Minnesota, stranded with Darcy's messy house and a smashed hard drive, locking away access to her website and work. Morgan hires IT Specialist Nick Hawkins who promises to unravel the damage and get her up and running again.

Disturbing phone calls and recovered data arouse the suspicions of local police. Morgan's first instinct is to break ties and flee. But Minnesota's so welcoming, and Nick's so sweet...

And Darcy's killer is watching her every step.

Weight of the Castellan’s Curse

December 28, 2019 Comments Off

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For Dubric Byerly, aging head of security at Castle Faldorrah, saving lives has become a matter of saving his sanity. A silent, unseen killer stalks his castle, mutilating servant girls while leaving no clues or witnesses—only the gruesome ghosts of the victims. Ghosts only Dubric can see.

Caught in the grisly tangle is Nella, a linen maid working to free herself from a tortured past—if she can survive the invisible killer and pay off her debt to Lord Risley Romlin, grandson of the King and Dubric’s prime suspect. Every snowy dawn brings a new victim, a new ghost, and Dubric must resort to unconventional methods to unravel the few clues. With the future of Faldorrah and countless lives at stake, including his own, he can’t afford to be wrong. And if he’s right, the entire kingdom could be thrust into war.

Seeking the Devil’s Eye

July 19, 2020 Comments Off

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Dubric was summoned to The Reach to find an artist taken by the dark, but found the ghosts of twenty-three murdered young men instead, all violently tortured before they were killed. Despite the best efforts of Dubric and his team, Braoin Duncannon, the young artist they had been called to find, was murdered by a madman’s needle through his skull. Most of Dubric’s clues are lost to the river after the bodies are dumped—if the bodies are ever found at all—and local officials remain more concerned with blame than providing assistance. Despite numerous ghosts and limited clues, Dubric has to press on, has to find the thread leading him to Braoin’s killer, because the long-dead Demon of The Reach has returned to take Otlee into the dark.

The Seer of Truth

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Eleven murders, eleven ghosts, and one lone linen maid.

An unseen killer has slaughtered ten servant girls and one guard, leaving disemboweled corpses in the castle courtyard. But Nella, a linen maid, survived her attack. The slasher took only her hair, not her life.
Nella loves a nobleman, the King’s grandson Risley—she admitted it with a bloody razor held to her throat—then she woke in Risley’s bed, surrounded by shining Holy Knights who pledged to protect her at any cost. Soon her beloved fled, insisting he left to get help. Without Risley near, the knights remained true to their vow and killed a man who attempted to assault her.

The castle people grow ever angrier in the wake of the knights’ ruthless protection and demand Risley’s arrest and execution. Castellan Dubric does little to quash their fury, but Dubric has burdens of his own—the heavy, dribbling ghosts of the eleven slaughtered victims, mostly servant girls like Nella. Dubric’s set a high bounty for Risley capture and return to the castle alive, but Nella, now isolated from even her friends, fears the reward may not be enough to save Risley’s life.