The Liar of Red Valley

Don’t cross the King.
Never, ever go in the River.
And don’t trust the Liar.

In Red Valley, California, you follow the rules if you want to stay alive. But even that isn’t enough to protect Sadie now that she’s unexpectedly become the Liar: the keeper and maker of Red Valley’s many secrets.

In a town like this, friendships are hard-won and bad blood lasts generations, and when not everyone in town is exactly human, it isn’t a safe place to make enemies.

And though the Liar has power — power to remake the world, with just a little blood—what Sadie really needs is answers: Why is the town’s sheriff after her? What does the King want from her? And what is the real purpose of the Liar of Red Valley?

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The Name Thief

How can she not remember her own name?

Everything started to get weird after her trip to Ellis Island. It was supposed to be educational, and it was, until she was confronted by a ghost-like little girl who left her head spinning...and her name missing. And it isn't just her own memory that's been messed with: her name is missing from her school papers, family photos, even the handprints in the sidewalk in front of her house.

Her name was taken by the Name Thief.

She learns that there is another world, hiding in the shadows, full of creatures myth and legend never even guessed at. One such being has stayed alive thousands of years living off the power that comes from stolen names. Even worse, without her name, she is now fair game for other, darker things. Hungry fiends who long for the taste of blood. Ancient hunters who prowl in the night. Monsters that wear human faces.

But she’s ready to fight back.

She never asked to be pulled out of her normal teenaged life into a secret world of secrets, rules, and fangs. This wasn't how she planned to spend her senior year. But even as some of the oldest, most powerful beings start circling her, she isn't about to give up. Her name is out there. She just has to get it back.

Names have power. Shadows have teeth.

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Breach

In the first novel in the Cold War Magic series, Karen O'Neil is summoned to Berlin to be use her talents as a magical researcher to help the CIA. But she doesn’t know she’s walking into a powder keg of explosive secrets.

AFTER THE WAR, THE WALL BROUGHT AN UNEASY PEACE.

The world was outraged when Soviet magicians conjured an arcane Wall to blockade occupied Berlin, but they let it stand for the sake of peace. Now after 10 years of fighting with spies instead of spells, the CIA has discovered the unthinkable:

THE WALL IS FAILING.

While refugees and soldiers mass along the border, operatives from East and West converge on the most dangerous city in the world to stop the crisis, or to take advantage of it.

Karen, a young American magician with the Office of Magical Research and Deployment, is sent to investigate the breach in the Wall and see if it can be fixed. Instead she will discover that nothing can be trusted in this divided city, and that even magic itself has its own agenda.

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE WALL IS ABOUT TO BE REVEALED.

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Revolution

In the second novel in a thrilling Cold War fantasy series, American magician Karen O'Neil searches for a powerful young girl, hoping to find her before the Soviet agents or Cuban revolutionaries capture her and change the balance of power of the whole world.

AFTER THE WALL FELL, NOTHING COULD BE THE SAME.

In Cold War Berlin, American magician Karen O'Neil defeated the ghosts of Germany's past and sealed the breach that threatened the whole world, but in doing so she learned a terrible truth: Magic cannot be trusted.

Despite her wariness of the new and growing powers she gained in Germany, Karen agrees to help an old friend and is drawn to Cuba, a world of opulence run by a corrupt government and ruthless, magic-obsessed mobsters.

In Havana, while the fires of revolution kindle, Karen searches for a missing girl whose fate is intertwined with impossible and deadly magic. And she knows she's being watched; both the Soviets and the CIA have designs on this island paradise, and their eyes are everywhere. But spies and rebels aren't the only dangers hiding in Havana's long shadows, and Karen will learn that the future can be just as dangerous as the past.

MANKIND WILL ALWAYS FIND NEW WAYS TO CREATE MONSTERS.

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