Coming In 2008 in the award-winning  Celaeno Series...

Shadow of the Knife (March 2008)

Militia rookie Ellen Mittal is well aware that the world cannot be reduced to simple questions of black and white, but she has no idea of just how complex and dangerous her life is about to become. The most vicious gang in the Homelands, led by the infamous Butcher, is extending its operations to Roadsend. By her oath as a member of the Militia, Ellen is sworn to uphold the rule of law, no matter what the cost to herself. But as the body count starts to rise, Ellen finds her task made all the harder by a wall of silence from ordinary citizens, a commanding officer with her head in the sand, and the attentions of an attractive young farmer who is probably not who she claims to be.  

Ellen must work out who to trust, because if she gets it wrong she might easily lose her heart, or her life.

Another action packed sci-fi adventure/romance in the Celaeno series, a 2005 Lambda Literary Award Finalist.

 

Current Releases:

The Lyremouth Chronicles

 

 Book One:  The Exile and The Sorcerer

 

Two women, ensnared by the conspiracies of their rulers, become reluctant allies in a dangerous quest.

Monsters, sorcerers, and treacherous journeys all await Tevi on her quest to find the stolen Chalice.  If this isn't enough, her search leads her to join forces with Jemeryl, a tempestuous sorcerer who dreams only of the day when she will have completed her studies and be able to return to the sanctuary of Lyremouth, with her books and her research.  It is all very straightforward—until she meets Tevi.  Romance, adventure, and intrigue abound.  New Revised edition. 

(Previously issued as Parts One and Two of Lorimal's Chalice - the Gaylactic Spectrum Award finalist for best novel of 2003)
 

 

Book Two: The Traitor and The Chalice

 

Tevi and Jemeryl, soldier and sorcerer, are sworn to the service of the Protectorate of Lyremouth, the greatest civilization the world has known, and will risk all to ensure its survival.  Yet a traitor is working to uncover a long hidden secret that will destroy the Protectorate and threaten the lives of its citizens.  The two women are sent to hunt down the traitor and retrieve the chalice that can bestow such dangerous powers.

Without allies to help them, Tevi and Jemeryl will need to rely totally on each other; something made all the more difficult when the rest of the world seems intent on pulling them apart. Events will force them to re-evaluate their assumptions about society and their places in it. Difficult choices wait them, even as they battle for their lives. New revised edition.

(Previously issued as Parts Three and Four of Lorimal's Chalice -the Gaylactic Spectrum Award finalist for best novel of 2003)

 

 

Book Three: The Empress and The Acolyte

 *2007 Lesbian Speculative Fiction Goldie Winner*

After three years of studying with the Empress Bykoda, Jemeryl has learned all that the elderly sorcerer can teach her and is ready to return to Lyremouth. However, before she leaves, Bykoda reveals a grim secret—an oracle of death—and asks her to perform one final assignment. Jemeryl must take Bykoda's talisman to a place of safety. Failure will mean complete destruction not only in the present, but also the past.

While in Tirakhalod, Tevi has been working as an officer in Bykoda's army. It has been a difficult time for her, living in a land where those who cannot work magic are treated as insignificant. Only Jemeryl's love has made life bearable. With the return to the Protectorate drawing close, she hopes that the worst is over. However, somebody is after the talisman, and that person is willing to commit murder to get what they want. ALL NEW

 

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The Celaeno Series

 

The Walls of Westernfort

 

 Golden Crown Literary Society Award Winner - 2005 SCI-FI/FANTASY

All Natasha Ionadis wants is to serve the Goddess, and she volunteers eagerly for a near-impossible  mission to infiltrate a band of renegade warriors and imprinters. One of three temple guards sent to infiltrate Westernfort and assassinate the rebel leaders.  Natasha accepts that she will likely die in the process.

But, once away from the temple, the issues are no longer so simple, and she must revaluate her allegiances and her beliefs.  Living undercover alongside women she has sworn to kill, Natasha discovers friendship and, with one woman in particular, something far more.

Is it already too late to discover what she really wants from life?

 

 

The Temple at Landfall

 2005 Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror Lammy Finalist

Lynn is an imprinter, one chosen by the Goddess to receive her greatest gift, that of creating new life.  So why does she feel like a prisoner in the Temple?

When Lynn learns that she is to be relocated to the temple at Landfall, the arduous journey seems more like a gift—her last chance to see something of the outside world.  She does not anticipate the dangers and temptations she will encounter along the way, nor does she expect Lieutenant Kim Ramon, an officer in the squadron of Rangers assigned to protect her.  Despite all prohibitions forbidding it, attraction grows between the two women.

Against them stand the powerful religious Sisterhood and their holy warriors—the Temple Guards.  In a world ruled by the Church, what chance is there that Lynn can escape?

 (Previously released as The World Celaeno Chose)

 

Rangers at Roadsend

 

A Celaeno world adventure fraught with danger and romance.

Sergeant Chip Coppelli escaped the manipulative plots of her powerful family by becoming a soldier. After 9 years in the elite Rangers, dealing with thugs and wild predators, she has learned to spot trouble coming—and that is exactly what she sees in the mystery surrounding her new recruit, Katryn Nagata. But even so, Chip was not expecting murder.  (Previously released as The Wrong Trail Knife)

 

Dynasty of Rogues

When you're short on friends and long on enemies, things can't get much worse.  Until they do...

Ranger Riki Sadiq is known as a troublemaker, and in the close knit heretic community, a bad name is hard to lose.  Standing sentry duty on a winter's day, all she can see lying ahead is an afternoon of being cold, miserable, and bored.  Her mood isn't helped by deliberate goading from people who are supposed to be working with her. Even so, retaliating in kind isn't one of Riki's better ideas.  When Riki is dispatched to Westernfort for one last chance in the Rangers, the hostile reception means her list of enemies has become still longer, and prime candidate to head the list is her new patrol corporal, Tanya Coppelli.  It is hate at first sight.  The way Riki sees it, Tanya may have good looks, talent and sharp wits, but is that any reason to like her?  However, if Riki but knew it, trouble of a deadly kind is heading her way.  With their lives at stake, Riki and Tanya will have to overcome the mutual antagonism and learn to work together. 

Another action packed sci-fi adventure/romance in the Celaeno series, a 2005 Lambda Literary Award Finalist.