Thursday, September 28, 2017

Herein my Open Wounds series

Old homes, old castles. Old ghosts.

Ghosts don't just appear. They don't just wander in from the ether and take up a place at the table.

They come from open wounds. The parts of life that never quite heal.

Shame. Terror. Murder.

Imprisonment.

In a forgotten place, far away from the center of life, the centers of power, in a land of ice over fire, a castle was built.

Not as a home. Not to project power, or to defend territory.

It was built as a prison.

And this prisoner is not content to remain there.

What will his jailers do? What will they sacrifice to insure that this prisoner is never again allowed to inflict himself upon the innocents he feasts upon?

What won't they sacrifice?

Open Wounds (Open Wounds Book 1)

Long before jailer and jailed, they were friends. Monsters don't always begin that way.

A time of beginnings...

Names of power, legends of glory. Stories don't always start at the point where the heroes enter and vanquish the monster.

In this case, two friends will end up facing each other as prisoner and jailer, queen and ultimate subject. Their decisions in that place and time will shatter a distant corner of the world, leaving the fate of many to random chance and the viciousness of winter.

But first, long before they face off as bitter enemies, two children, on that verge between leaving childhood behind for the pathways of adulthood, must answer the most delightful question imaginable.

What's in the box?

Open Wounds is the first book in the Open Wounds series. It is available at Amazon as ebook and paperback, from Nook as ebook, from Kobo as ebook, from Smashwords as ebook

Passing Fancies (Open Wounds Book 2)

Far and away. Forgotten.

Almost. No single generation is long enough to erase certain memories from the world.

A time for testing. A time for betrayal.

Far to the north, where the ice grabs, and the volcanoes rumble, a queen has carved out a tiny kingdom. A borderland at the edge of an Empire, mostly forgotten by those who stand at the center and grasp for power.

Mostly. There are those who remember that the queen placed her kingdom at the edge of nowhere for a reason. Those that know that Megan built her kingdom to constrain the power of the leading magician of the age. The most powerful, the most insane magician of the age.

One of that mage's former cult remembers, and vows to free her master. She will do anything, and everything, to free her master and avenge the insult that has held him prisoner, encased in stone for a generation.

Will Megan, and the friends and family she's gathered around her, stop the cultist before she succeeds? Assuming first that they'll find out who she is...

Passing Fancies is the second book in the Open Wounds series. It is available at Amazon as ebook and paperback, from Nook as ebook, from Kobo as ebook, from Smashwords as ebook

Train In Tow (Open Wounds Book 3)

What routes open to you, when your faithful return to your bidding. No prison can hold you when the true believers will tear apart the world over the barest hint of your word.

A time when webs spin and grow.

Freedom, so close he can taste it. The prisoner knows, expands his reach, his grasp. To those who welcome his call. And to those who will risk everything to stop it.

Jane has listened to that call since birth. She's given everything to follow the trail that led her to this place of ice and snow. All that she was, that she might have been, has been sacrificed to free Chad from his imprisonment.

Jane has killed. She will kill again. Whatever it takes.

But her master has other plans now. Other means of getting what he wants. And Megan, the queen, is close, ever so close, to knowing Jane's secret. The queen, her daughter, her daughter's tutor and best friend. Each and every one of them has a piece of the puzzle.

They know. Justice chases her heels, and the path Jane travels shifts beneath her feet. Will she fall?

Or will her master throw her to the wolves first?

Train In Tow is the third book in the Open Wounds series. It is available at Amazon as ebook and paperback, from Kobo as ebook, from Smashwords as ebook, from Nook as ebook

1 comment:

  1. This page is clearly a work in progress. I'll be amending it for readability as I go along.

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