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The Valensi Chronicles

Urban fantasy across three books. Ancient, morally complicated beings navigating survival, identity, and the weight of centuries, in a world that mostly does not believe in them and that they remember from before it was the way it is now. The trilogy is complete.

The Valensi Chronicles · Book One

WAIF

One law her kind does not forgive, and two seconds to break it.

Paris has been High Guard for over a century, loyal to the Citadel, good at the only thing she was ever trained to be. Then the Hierarchy marks her oldest friend for death and sends someone to collect. Under the Eiffel Tower, in the gray hour before sunrise, Paris has a second to decide. She kills one of her own. That law is older than any Valensi alive and there is no version of it that bends. Now she is a hundred and thirty-nine years old, still getting carded, running with a death warrant behind her while a three thousand year old telepath decides which hunter to send. She has always done what survival required. This is the first time she has to live with it.

The Valensi Chronicles · Book Two

WIDOW

She made three promises on a mountain, alone, and kept every one of them for eight hundred years.

Brianna Van Demir has spent eight centuries not knowing what happened to her husband. High in the mountains where their cottage once stood, she swore she would never Birth another Valensi, never take a life, and never let anyone close enough to do this to her again. She has kept all three. She has a careful life in Charlotte, a job at the district attorney's office, and a woman named Daphne who has waited seven years for her to look up. Then the past comes to collect, and Brianna learns that Garth never left her at all. By the time she has the whole answer, none of the three promises are left standing.

The Valensi Chronicles · Book Three · Out now

WITCH

Neutral ground does not mean passive ground. Not anymore.

For eighty years Rahne has kept Eclipse neutral. Valensi, Garou, and the humans who know better all drink under the same roof, nobody fights, and nobody asks why. She built those rules around herself for a reason, and she has not broken one of them yet. Then three of her people die in six days, killed with a weapon that leaves nothing behind but ash, and the Hierarchy sends a Protector into her city to find out who is pulling the trigger. Untold centuries behind her, and everyone thinks they know exactly what she is. They are wrong. About so many things.

The New Scions

Greek mythology reimagined for the twenty-first century. What if Zeus still ruled from Olympus, but the throne room had Wi-Fi? Tragedy dressed in modern clothes, in three books. Complete.

The New Scions · Book One

The Broken Night

Ancient gods. Modern stakes. And a girl who has never once forgotten anything.

Alexis Rain remembers every moment since she was three and sleeps about two hours a night. She has been the strange one since she was nine, and she made her peace with that a long time ago. Then her mother dies on a quiet road before dawn, a man named Pitts turns up at the viewing to remark on how convenient that was, and her father tells her the truth about where she came from before someone makes sure he cannot say it twice. The mother who raised her is buried. The mother who bore her is an actual goddess. And the god quietly taking her family apart has been envious of everything since before the world had a name.

The New Scions · Book Two

The Chaos Arena

A debt to Chaos cannot be refused, and it is never collected when you expect it.

Three weeks after the worst night of her life, the artifacts start disappearing. Ten thefts in three weeks, and then something worse: the connections between the gods and their mortal children begin to sever one at a time, cleanly, as though somebody has finally worked out how. Alexis crosses into the ether to chase an old mistake and comes back owing a debt to Chaos, who will not say what he wants or when he intends to collect. Waiting at the other end is a man who calls himself the architect of all of it, an arena the gods themselves turn out to watch, and a victory that fixes nothing.

The New Scions · Book Three

The Jealous Dark

He has been at this for thousands of years, and he started because someone took a mortal lover.

The thefts were never the point. Something older than the gods has spent three thousand years cutting the divine away from the human, patiently, one severed thread at a time, and it is already inside the compound wearing a face they all trust. Alexis still owes Chaos a debt she can neither refuse nor predict, and her mother will not say what she knows. Before this is over the Network buries one of its own, and Alexis finds out exactly what she agreed to in the ether.

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WARLOCKS

Whatever he takes, you never had.

Jace Adair does the one thing for the Agency that nobody else can do. He walks into a mind and takes what is in it, and what he takes does not come back, not to the subject, not ever. Then he is sent after a defector and hits a wall he cannot get through, a defense built by somebody who knows exactly how he works. Following it back leads to the brother he has not spoken to in years, a research program that was thought shut down decades ago - it was not - and a woman from his past building toward something Jace will have to decide whether to stop. Jason Bourne meets Stranger Things by way of John le Carré. Published here in episodes, free.

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Blood and Amber

Dallas homicide does not have a form for this.

Detective Sean Byrne catches a body in a Dallas apartment complex and knows before he reaches the top of the stairs that it is worse than anything he worked in Miami or Orlando. What he is looking at is a message. Two centuries ago the Red Queen of Codigoro pulled a dying seventeen year old out of his father's barn and made him her plaything before he managed to escape. She has found him again. Now, Byrne is standing between them as the only person in the room who does not yet know the rules. A standalone novella, free the moment you join the newsletter.

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PALADIN

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Small Repairs

A cozy mystery, and the first Walt Kessler novel. A quieter register, the same conviction that the other side has an argument.
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KNAVE: Rising

A modern military and assassin thriller. A man who, on paper, should not exist, and the thirty years of filing that made him that way.

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