Lumen Reese

A grieving mother.A monster.A ship crewed by the damned...

Fault

Alanna Rhee believes that all mothers deserve to deliver safely, even the monsters of the world. As a human enslaved to the fairies of Aerin, she made a pact with the king when she was just a child. She signed in blood. After studying midwifery, and for ten years attending to the most dangerous births of other magical creatures -earning wealth and prestige for the kingdom- she would win her freedom.With three years left to serve, multiple fairy kingdoms are on the brink of war. Queen Esmera of the Westlands is hated, feared, and called a 'classless woman'. Worse still, she carries a child with no father, conceived from a deal with an 'Old God'. Not knowing what deformities the baby may show, only the most experienced midwife in the land will do. But Alanna has other things on her mind: Prince Killian's interest in her has increased to a dangerous level, and the castle's other slaves are justifiably bitter of her privilege. Even worse, her only friend Hasan is a Muslim stable hand, and he is starving rather than betray his faith by eating the leftover pig bits in the stew; pork is what the humans are being served three meals a day.Alanna is trusted by all. She is asked to attend to Esmera. She is also asked not to intervene in the difficult birth, and by her inaction, to cause death. Alanna must decide if even her freedom is worth the horror of allowing a woman to die in her most vulnerable moment.

Monster Midwife

Every five years the girls of Elk Mountain wake up in the woods, where the simple farm boys they grew up with become predators and hunt them for brides. Lizzie is twenty, deaf since childhood and worried that she could end up married to a man who won't learn to communicate with her, that she won't have a voice in her own home. Beck is seventeen, exchanging secret letters with a girl from the other side of the mountain, and she'll kill or die before she'll marry anyone else. Nellie is only fourteen, and all she wants is a few more years, to grow up on her own terms. All three Marlow girls live in the shadow of their beautiful eldest sister, Julia. Five years ago -at the last Bride Hunt- she refused the man who caught her, and she was killed for it. The barbaric ritual is a sacred right of passage to a fringe sect of Catholicism in post-apocalyptic, small town Appalachia. Dan Lightman is one of the hunt's only critics. He was once too afraid to fight for Julia -the girl he loved- but now he returns to the mountain with a hired cutthroat and a plan to save the remaining Marlow sisters from their gruesome fate...

The Bride Hunt of Elk Mountain

To You Shall All Flesh Come

#TeenSheriff Evelyn Lassiter

In Brooklyn in the year 2147, amateur PI Stella Grady is offered a job in the exotic Four Quarters of Imagination; it's a vacation spot where the rich and powerful can live out their wildest fantasies. The poor are the extras hired to fill roles in their storylines. Their words, their lives and their deaths can all be scripted for a price. Stella has been warned never to sell herself, but her back is against a wall; her family are in crisis ahead of the year's taxes. If they can't pay, their children will be requisitioned and sold to plantations or sweatshops in the south to pay down the debt. She takes a job hunting a fugitive through the Quarters, not knowing if he's a rogue 'story-jumper', a radical human rights activist, or just a hardened cop from her own 83rd precinct on a mission to rescue his sister. Her reward is for bringing him in, and he'll let her if she'll first work with him to expose the human trafficking ring beneath the world's shiny surface.Book One of the Four Quarters of Imagination Trilogy.

The Four Quarters of Imagination, Book One

Monarch Falls

In New Haven, Connecticut, a decades-old cold case resurfaces. As charges are brought, the details grow stranger and stranger...An antiquities dealer and amateur children's magician named Edward Fox is charged with three murders, dating back to the 1980's, when he should have been only a child. Fox is a wanderer and a fall-down drunk. The case's unnatural timeline combined with one alleged victim's status as a teen beauty queen set the stage for the State of Connecticut v. Fox to become the trial of the century.Maggie Stowe -insomniac, Private Investigator, dream thief- has been following Fox for months. She is a crusader for women and girls and can still hear them screaming in Fox's dreams every night. But reality has begun to blur for the exhausted Maggie. Defender Ben Cartwright -the son of a murdered civil rights activist- knows to never take justice for granted. To him, the case reeks of prosecutorial overreach. All three counts are alleged murders without cadavers, linked to his client by circumstantial evidence rooted out by an obsessive PI with a direct line to her girlfriend at the State's Attorney's Office. Edward insists that Ben is the man to defend him. Never mind that he's young, or only just passed the Bar, or that he speaks a bit slowly because his mind works differently than most people's.The trial becomes a battle of wills. A jury and a nation are asked to consider -as the evidence strongly suggests- that Fox has been around and interfering with the lives of humans for a very long time; back to the Depression-era streets of Chicago, through decades with a traveling circus, and during the Selma to Montgomery marches that took place in Alabama, 1965...

Trial of the Lovebird Butcher

A brilliant Chief of Surgery and his team ensnare vampires, harvest their organs to donate or sell on the black market, then tag them like sharks and release them back into the wild. Encased within the 'pacetaker' attached to the heart are a toothpick and a monitor of the levels of human blood in the vampire's system. Their levels rise too high, and they get death by toothpick. It's a barbaric new method to keep vampires docile. Apparently, they've been on the honor system this whole time...

To you all flesh shall come 

In New Haven, Connecticut a decades-old cold case resurfaces. As charges are brought, the details grow stranger and stranger... An antiquities dealer and amateur children's magician named Edward Fox is charged with three murders, dating back to the 1980's, when he should have been only a child. Fox is a wanderer, and a fall-down drunk. The case's unnatural timeline combined with one alleged victim's status as a teen beauty queen set the stage for the State of Connecticut v. Fox to become the trial of the century. Maggie Stowe -insomniac, Private Investigator, dream thief- has been following Fox for months. She is a crusader for women and girls and can still hear them screaming in Fox's dreams every night. But reality has begun to blur for the exhausted Maggie. Soon she is unsure of anything except for the fact that she is a pawn in a perilous game. The trial becomes a battle of wills. A jury and a nation are asked to consider that Fox has been around and interfering with the lives of humans for a very long time; back to the Depression-era streets of Chicago, through decades with a traveling circus, and during the Selma to Montgomery marches that took place in Alabama, 1965...

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