Books & Projects

The Mermaid's Sister

 

2014 Winner of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award for Young Adult Fiction

Winner of the 2016 Realm Award for   

Book of the Year

There is no cure for being who you truly are...

In a cottage high atop Llanfair Mountain, sixteen-year-old Clara lives with her sister, Maren, and guardian Auntie. By day, they gather herbs for Auntie’s healing potions. By night, Auntie spins tales of faraway lands and wicked fairies. Clara’s favorite story tells of three orphan infants—Clara, who was brought to Auntie by a stork; Maren, who arrived in a seashell; and their best friend, O’Neill, who was found beneath an apple tree.

One day, Clara discovers shimmering scales just beneath her sister’s skin. She realizes that Maren is becoming a mermaid—and knows that no mermaid can survive on land. Desperate to save her, Clara and O’Neill place the mermaid-girl in their gypsy wagon and set out for the sea. But no road is straight, and the trio encounters trouble around every bend. Ensnared by an evil troupe of traveling performers, Clara and O’Neill must find a way to save themselves and the ever-weakening mermaid.

And always, in the back of her mind, Clara wonders, if my sister is a mermaid, then what am I?

Available on Amazon here:

http://tinyurl.com/z58lx9m

Deep Magic E-zine, June 2016

My short story, The Perfect Specimen, is included in this excellent collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by authors Jeff Wheeler, Charlie Holmberg, and more.

Deep Magic can be purchased here:

https://goo.gl/cjhn0p

The Gold-Son

A shoemaker's apprentice. 

A girl in disguise. 

A Leprechaun's Curse.

All sixteen-year-old Tommin wants is to make beautiful shoes and care for his beloved grandmother, but his insatiable need to steal threatens to destroy everything. Driven by a curse that demands more and more gold, he’s sure to get caught eventually.
When mysterious Lorcan Reilly arrives in town with his “niece,” Eve, Tommin believes the fellow wants to help him. Instead, Lorcan whisks him off to the underground realm of the Leprechauns, where, alongside Eve, he’s forced to prepare to become one of them.
As Lorcan’s plans for his “gold-children” are slowly revealed, Tommin and Eve plan their escape. But with Tommin’s humanity slipping away, the fate-crossed pair has everything to lose unless they can find a way to outsmart a magical curse centuries in the making.

The Gold-Son Audio Book is the winner of the Earphones Award from Audiofile Magazine.  
Audiofile Review

Available here:

The Gold-Son on Amazon.com