The Shepherd of Dreams lives in dreams and can manipulate them. The truth is she uses the dream world to hide from her past and present nightmares. In real life, she does not speak, and she can only voice words with her mind, in dreams and out. Lazarus is a spirit seeker, one who makes sure restless souls move on from the world of the living, and he is a drunkard and womanizer - he is running from his own life, as much as the Shepherd, just in a different fashion. It just so happens, he's the first dreamer that sees the Shepherd. Both characters are pressed with dangers to the dream world and the real world, and together they have to right the balance between dreams and nightmares and life and death.

Genre: Dark Fantasy

♦ Daina's Dance 1 (working title)

Daina is half Denar and half something else. She's too weak to join the Dance and wants to know who her father is. Her only friend follows her on her premature journey, and her worried aunt pursues. I also have two short stories related to this novel, one is the same name as this working title, and the other is "The Awakening," which shows the conception of Daina. This novel is the first in an intended trilogy.

Genre: Dark Fantasy (might be Young Adult)

♦ Eater of Angels

In an alternate world, angels and humans coexist. Chloe is an angel about to undergo her Emerging - an angel adolescence when they sprout their wings. On the day of her Emerging, something comes and slaughters her family - she watches her twin brother die to this thing that spares her. She calls it the Eater of Angels, and she sets out to destroy what is attempting to exterminate her race.

Genre: Dark Urban Fantasy

♦ The Mind Behind the Mind 1

This is the first novel in a trilogy. Leera is a world where the bloody sun is said to be the head of the witch that was killed by the first witch hunter. Tessa is a witch and Bastian is a witch hunter, with witchblood. They're drawn together, caught between others struggling for power, and trying to discover who they are and what they are to each other.

Genre: Dark Romantic Fantasy

Excerpt from Chapter 3:

Bastian attempted to encircle her waist and pull her closer, but Tessa stepped back. She shouldn't have done that, shouldn't have gotten so close. So she turned to the starry sky, hoping she could regain her will. The wave rolling off Bastian jumped, still a surge of desire, but confused hiccups marred the consistency.

"Did you think you'd find a witch here? You didn't answer me."

Bastian's emotions drew in. "They can be anywhere."

Tessa recalled a story her mother had told her as a child--a good distraction. "Well, I think you're right. There's one here."

He moved next to her, hand griping the hilt of his sword. "What?" All his desire vanished, replaced by eagerness and alarm. And something else underneath, darker and more feral.

"There, the constellation." Tessa pointed. "The story of the witch in the sky. She follows you, even in a town like Sierka."

Bastian removed his hand from his sword, the beast inside quieting. "Yes, I know, but that one's already dead. The sun is her head, rolling through the sky by day, soaked in blood."

"So gruesome. My mother told me she'd find her head one day and have her revenge." Tessa laughed. "Fairy-tales." A tale Tessa wished would come true. If it weren't for that first witch hunter, she wouldn't be anguishing over the one standing next to her.

♦ The Mind Behind the Mind 2

This is the second novel in a trilogy. Tessa and Bastian finally know who they're up against. At least they think so, but things are not always what they seem. They need to go down two different paths though. How will they handle their seperation from each other and past actions that still haunt them?

Genre: Dark Romantic Fantasy

♦ Death of the Dragon

This was my first attempt at a novel. The rough draft took me all four years of high school to write (and was maybe half the size of a normal novel). The writing is horrible, the story is horrible - it has no hope of redemption. I revised it a bit in college, but even the revisions stink. It also doesn't help I password protected most of the documents, forgot the password, and have no hope of getting into them (the original draft was hand written, and I still have that at least to look back at and see just how much my writing has improved).

Guess I should summarize the plot at least. Andrew Jacob Masters and Elizabeth (Liz) Rae Laseene are warriors for the kingdom of Serine. They are sent on a mission to deliver a message to the neighboring kingdom of Melina. While they are on their way there, they hear the cannons that signal war - Melina declared on Serine. Andrew had been injured during their journey, so they remain in The Whispering Woods as he heals, plot to sneak into the palace of Meline to take down its Queen (who was Liz's enemy growing up and in warrior training), and fall in love. Spoiler alert (as if it matters - I would be embarrassed if this were ever published)! Everyone dies at the end. The novel is in journal style, written by Andrew, and I mean EVERYONE dies at the end. I was a bit of an angsty teenager. Now you know why this novel has no hope to see the light of day.