The Broken Keystone
An eighteen year old cold case in ancient Babylon. The victim was their god. The city has one man willing to reopen the file, and an Assyrian army on the horizon that will not wait for his answer.
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Fourteen novels since the age of fifteen.
I write epic fantasy from the Rocky Mountains, where I grew up and still live. The habit started the night my dad put on his VHS copy of The Fellowship of the Ring, and it has not let go since.
I have been finishing novels since I was fifteen. Twelve years and fourteen manuscripts later, I am still most at home in the long form: invented histories, cities with their own logic, and a story that needs a hundred thousand words to say what it means. I write mostly epic fantasy, though I like stepping into contemporary fantasy when a story wants to be set closer to home.
Three of those novels are below, each with the opening pages attached.
The Novels
Ashes of the Painted
On the night two gangs were to sign the treaty that would merge their districts, Vox killed his best friend and rival, and the whole of the magic district burned with him. His three newly orphaned children are left to survive humanity's last city, and to find out what actually happened that night.
Read the openingInk Stained Legacies
In a corporate dystopia built on ink magic, a prodigy has spent twenty years rotting in an island prison. When a second young ink mage is sent to the same rock, she finally has a way off it, and a way back to the people who put her there.
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