She’s not hiding because she doesn’t know what she is.
She’s hiding because she does.
Alex has spent her entire life making herself small — not out of fear, but out of strategy. She married the most gloriously ordinary man she could find, built the most deliberately unremarkable life she could construct, and kept the door locked on a power that would have consumed everything she knew.
Now she’s stranded in a town with a mind of its own, one that has trapped an immortal alchemist, the souls of the previous residents it killed in one fatal blow and is holding a deep, ugly grudge. A town that has managed to trap her husband as well.
If Alex is going to escape this trap, she’ll have to own her power, reveal herself in a way that will end the life she built and will send her into a world she refused to acknowledge.
Ghost Town is a romantasy about the price of hiding, the grief of loving someone you can’t reach, and the particular devastation of finally being seen by someone who knows exactly what they’re looking at.
Magic that costs everything. Love that extracts the highest price. A woman who spent a lifetime pretending to be ordinary — forced out of hiding.
Some ghost towns are just old buildings. Empty windows. Quiet streets. History that ran out of people. This one is different.
Alex and Thane are now working as a magical couple, learning each other and the full scope of what they are together. The red powder is increasingly drawn to Alex.
Alex has mastered the the red powder, the Philosopher’s Stone, and become a Red Adept — but she’s isolated by who she has become. Now she must decide what’s left to live for.
I think one of the most difficult things to come to terms with was that I’m not just one thing and I don’t want to follow just one path and so I was completely torn. I love my fiction writing, but I also love my non-fiction writing. Both fulfill me. Both provide something to others that can assist and uplift them. And I wanted to bring both to life in the world. But we’re told that we have to follow one course, one path, one career.
Redd Lioness is a story that’s been burning through my mind and soul for years, but for a long time I just couldn’t find the words, her words.
Alex has mastered the the red powder, the Philosopher’s Stone, and become a Red Adept — but she’s isolated by who she has become. Now she must decide what’s left to live for.
Magic, light and love.
A human being built by a lifetime of direct experience, rigorous curiosity, and the kind of living that asks the big questions out loud.
I didn’t find these stories. They found me — because I’ve spent decades living inside the questions they ask.
If any of this resonates, I think you’ll feel right at home in my worlds.