Two series. Choose where to start.
Two series. Choose where to start.
Darkly funny psychological mystery for readers who like their suspense plated beautifully and served cold.
Tonight, she plans to seduce her therapist.
Instead, she finds Dr. Harry Lawson dead on the floor.
Inconvenient. She shaved for this.
Before the police arrive, Clara touches the crime scene, steals a notebook, pockets a pearl, and gives herself several excellent reasons to look guilty. Detective Nathan Cole notices. He also notices the missing time in her memory, and the way each new body is arranged with the precision of a tasting menu.
By the end she is asking the one question no suspect should have to ask herself: is someone framing her, or is there a reason the evidence fits so well?
"If I'm going to lose my mind, I'd rather it happen somewhere edible."
Book One of a two-book mystery arc. The story finishes in Appetite for Ruin, which publishes 20 April 2027.
Out now on Kindle. Kindle Unlimited members read it free.
Adult dark historical fantasy with a central love story, for readers who believe some of them are older than the people living them.
Anath is High Priestess of the goddess Bastet and the living seal between the ordered world and Apophis, the serpent of the Void. Apophis takes Khem slowly — seduces him, hollows him out, remakes him into the Shadow, the one weapon she will never raise a hand against. And Khem kills her. He understands what he has done only after she is cold.
Death does not release her. Seven years later she returns as Amisi, with no memory of the life she lived, the man who murdered her, or the god still hunting her soul. Fragments of that lifetime begin to surface, and she has to decide what they mean — and whether the man who keeps appearing at the edge of them is protecting her or hunting her.
Apophis has waited seven years. This time he means to finish it.
"Let the lion rise. Let her roar scatter the night."
Kindle $6.99 · Free with Kindle Unlimited
20 October 2026
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