My Fantasy Novels

Four years after the last war, the peace is fraying. On the northern horizon a storm gathers unlike any Talon has ever seen, and the nightmares he thought buried have returned – the maze, the vine, the world drowning in blood.

In the sealed dark far below the world, something ancient stirs against a weakening seal. A cult moves under cover of the northern raids to help her rise, led by a hollowed priest who is the dark mirror of the wizard Talon must trust the least.

Talon, the reluctant leader who once saved a kingdom, must ride out and find his scattered companions – a young bard finding his voice, a half-elf brother who refuses to be tied down, and Tellah, the black-robed wizard everyone fears – and forge a broken company back into something that can hold the north. Old wounds will reopen. Old debts will come due. And winning the first battle may only reveal how much larger the war has become.

The Gathering Storm is Book One of The Storm-Wake Trilogy, the opening chapter of the six-book saga The Sundered Queen, set in the world of Veldrath.

The storm has broken. What follows is worse.

Talon and his reforged company ride south out of the burning north to warn the free realms of Veldrath – the crowns, the elves, the dwarves, the horse-nomads – that the seal is failing and the One Below is stirring beneath their feet. But four years of peace have made the courts fat and deaf, and the cult’s hands reach further into the halls of power than anyone suspects.

To rally an alliance the company must split apart, each riding to a different realm with a token of authority and no time to spare. Meanwhile the Hollow Priest carries a growing key south toward Mount Cavash, unmaking himself grain by grain into the instrument that can turn it. Tellah is watched by his own order and has begun to cross the lines he swore he never would. Faelen is following him down that same road. And a fracture is spreading through the company that no oath and no crown can heal.

Some alliances will be won. Others will be lost, or betrayed. And by the time the company reaches what waits below, one of them will not be riding home.

The Fracturing is Book Two of The Storm-Wake Trilogy, continuing the six-book saga The Sundered Queen, set in the world of Veldrath.

They are six now.

The company rides for Mount Cavash to hold the seal against the One Below. But the Hollow Priest is only weeks from the gate, the key ripe in his marrow, and every day the road grows longer. Tellah has crossed a line he cannot uncross, and it felt like joy. Faelen carries a small door in his soul that the sundered goddess feeds while he sleeps. And south of them all, a free dragon walks the world for the first time in an age.

The realms are turning at last. Some come. Some do not. Some come too late. Old debts are called in and old promises come due, and the company must be forged one final time into something that can stand at a door that was never meant to be held.

They will reach the mountain. They will fight the war they set out to fight. But the seal was never meant to be held forever, and the price of winning may not be paid in any coin their world knows how to spend.

The Held Seal is Book Three of The Storm-Wake Trilogy, the climax of the opening arc of the six-book saga The Sundered Queen, set in the world of Veldrath.