Soul Court ascension: A paranormal romance trilogy

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Winner Agent’s Choice RWNZ Great Beginnings Contest

Finalist, Best Novel, Sir Julius Vogel Awards

The Soul Court Ascension trilogy is a fake relationship, enemies to lovers, urban fantasy romance featuring necromancy, sexy wings and secrets for fans of Kate Daniels and Guild Hunter. It’s part of my Melded Earths world where our Earth of humans and technology has melded with an Earth of winged elementals and magic and it’s set in my hometown of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. You can get a taster by subscribing to claim the free prequel short story ‘From the Ashes’. If you’re a kindle reader, you can grab the complete trilogy in the ebook box set edition.

 
 

A bounty hunter desperate to pass as human is forced into faking a relationship with the winged necromancer she despises to fight a dark threat tearing at the fabric of their reality.

City of Souls is an enemies to lovers, fake relationship, Paranormal Romance with a side of Urban Fantasy.

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Under attack from outside and within, Hel and Bast fly from Court to Court in desperation as their tenuous truce with the other rulers crumbles. Inextricably bound together, their only hope of survival lies in the same bond that’s killing them.

Shards of Stasis is the second book in this steamy paranormal romance trilogy.

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The worst has happened.

It all comes back to the contagion that's left a shrine of dead stars in its wake and the unbreakable bond between Hel and Bast that will be either their saviour or their death knell. It's not just their lives and their world that hangs in the balance. It's everything.

Shrine of Stars is the third book in this steamy paranormal romance trilogy.

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Other Melded Earths World Books

 

Free short story Prequel

Subscribe to claim the free prequel to the Soul Court Ascension trilogy and the Melded Earths world.

 

Coming 2024

An enemies to lovers MM Melded Earths standalone set after the Soul Court Ascension trilogy.

 
 
 
 

Against the grain

A contemporary (sub)urban fantasy witchy fiction novella set in New Zealand about coeliac mountain biking witch Trinity and her demon familiar.

Alt-ernate

My debut short story collection including 37 science fiction, fantasy and horror stories from micro fiction through to novelette length.

Censored City Series

A trilogy of near-future thriller novelettes starting with Would She Be Gone. A post-analog world on the tipping point of Orwellian dystopia and the women whose choices will determine which way it falls.

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Sir Julius Vogel Award Finalists
Sir Julius Vogel Award Finalists

I’m a finalist for Best Novel and Best Short Story in the 2023 Sir Julius Vogel Awards!

2022 Awards Eligibility Post
2022 Awards Eligibility Post

A 2022 awards eligibility post. I’m especially proud of my debut urban fantasy/ paranormal romance novel City of Souls, and two short stories.

Wellington Heritage & A Love Note to Home in City of Souls
Wellington Heritage & A Love Note to Home in City of Souls

It’s Wellington Heritage week so I thought I’d write a quick piece about a couple of the Wellington heritage research holes I fell into while writing City of Souls and explain a few of the little things I added into the story as a love note to home.