Clockwork Kingdom
NEW FICTION! Never before published!
Steampunk fairy YA. Need I say more?
Okay.
Adele, queen of the fairies, despairs when the Master Tinker for the kingdom dies before he finishes the clockwork machinery that will drive all humans away. Then she meets Dale, a human boy and a natural tinker, who can finish the machine. She enslaves Dale and binds his will with fairy magic.
However, Adele fails to capture Dale’s twin sister Nora, who only recently discovered that she is a Maker and has power of her own.
Can Nora accept the magic that makes her different and save both her brother and herself before the fairy kingdom clockwork can be turned on, killing millions of innocent humans?
The Jaguar and the Wolf
Originally published by Roc in 2005, now available as an ebook!
We know Vikings reached North America. What if one Viking ship goes down along the coast, into the Gulf of Mexico, and lands on the Yucatan Peninsula? This novel is told following two story lines: the conflicts between the two groups of humans, and the conflicts between the two pantheons of gods, Norse and Mayan.
Tyrthbrand, a Viking, wears the band of Tyr on his sword arm. Through the grace of his god, he’s has achieved much. But Tyrthbrand wants to be his own man, completing worthy deeds that he alone can take credit for. When he accidentally kills a man at Leif Erikson’s camp in Vineland, he flees south with his ship and his crew, seeking a land free of skraelings and gods, where he can gain riches and fame.
Lady Two Bird, a Mayan, is the high priestess of the goddess Ix Chebel. Her power has faded with her age. She has been forced to step down, and is facing retirement without fame, afraid of fading into the earth without her name written on the temple stairs.
Thrown together into an unlikely alliance, the Viking warrior and the Mayan priestess must save each other in the coming battles between the Itza city-states, as well as survive the collision of the gods that threatens both Heaven and earth.
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Caves of Buda
Originally published by Roc on 2004, now available as an ebook!
Zita made some bad choices in her early college days. Now she has a stable job, a stable relationship, but she really isn’t happy in anything. Her grandfather, Laci, who has always been dear to her, has started showing signs of dementia, complaining that demons are now coming to attack him. He insists that he must return to his home city of Budapest because demons don’t die: they must be killed. An ancient enemy is shaking free of its binding, intent on destroying the world.
When Laci runs away back to Hungary Zita must follow him, striking out on a new path that will change her life and her world like nothing before.
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Paper Mage
Originally published by Roc in 2003, now available as an ebook for the first time!
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Set during the T’ang Dynasty, Xiao Yen, with the help of her aunt, becomes a paper mage: she folds paper into an animal or a thing, then does magic, so the paper becomes what she’s folded. However, she is still a woman trying to fill a man’s roll. The only people who will hire her are foreigners. She must leave her beloved home and travel with them, protecting their cargo, from the end of the Silk Road to the northern reaches of the Middle Kingdom. She accepts her obligation to them and her aunt, though she’s torn between her duty and a longing for a normal life, with children of her own.
Just before she leaves, Xiao Yen loses her lucky amulet. Things get worse after that, between misunderstandings with the foreigners, the dangers of the trail, and their traveling companions. Before long, Xiao Yen gets involved with a goddess’ battle against a northern warlord. But attacking a rat dragon, and destroying a Taoist immortal, are the least of the battles Xiao Yen must face.
Praise for “Paper Mage”:
—”An enchanting novel, skillfully rooted in Chinese history and myth. . .mythical, unusual, and thoroughly convincing.” –Terri Windling, Editor of “The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror”
—”A magical world as solid and believable as our own.” –Cecilia Dart-Thorton
—”An exceptional tale by an exception writer. . .It doesn’t get any better than this.” Dennis L. McKiernan