The Terrible Love Series
Genre: Short Stories, Erotica, Romance, Dark Romance, Monster Love, Alien Love, LGBT+
Summary of Sawyer’s Long Shadow: Sawyer lives alone in a garage apartment in the sticks of Tappahannock, or so they thought until a brownie, or shadow creature named Hue, makes his presence known. Their living arrangement is simple: Sawyer pays the rent and provides the snacks, and Hue cleans the house and remains out of sight. But who knew a creature who looks like a sleep paralysis demon could be so enticing? Sawyer certainly did not. Sawyer’s Long Shadow is a friends to lovers, LGBT+, monster lover short story for the urban fantasy lover in need of a little extra spice!
Summary of Love and Sea Monsters: Nu and Cli’ka are strangers in a strange land. Unable to return to their home planet, a world of oceans and storms, they’ve made a new life for themselves in the interspatial refuge of Sidero Square. Safely nestled between universes, the pair of Ceti want for nothing. Being the only members of their species in the square, though, presents a new set of problems that Nu is worried will drive a wedge between himself and Cli’ka. Love and Sea Monsters features intersex amphibious aliens, LGBT+ relationships, childhood friends to lovers, and violent mating rituals!
The White Dragon Saga
Genre: High fantasy, dark fantasy
Summary of The Blood of the Enemy: When she was twelve, Irilith Inimica’s brother told her to run; not from the dragons and beasts he’d warned her of her whole life, but from him. Soon after he caught up with her, she discovered exactly why.
He had become a monster.
Irilith, now known as Ria by her newfound family, lived securely within the dangerous Elleran Forest for five years. On one fateful trip to the city though, she is outed by humans as the relative of the notorious crime lord and self-appointed king Drystan. Being despised is commonplace for Ria as a half-vampire, but being hunted by Drystan is the exact thing she had hoped to avoid.
Because Drystan was the monster her brother had become.
The demon that inhabited her brother had driven him to pursue power at all costs, and he was not going to have any challengers to his new throne. Therefore, Drystan could not allow Ria and those who helped her survive to be left alive. Can Ria evade him as she had done five years prior? Or is she truly a harbinger of death to all those she loves?
In The White Dragon Saga, we follow the lives of the accursed family the Inimicas, fallen kings and queens notorious for their violent ancestor the White Dragon. Any who come in contact with the Inimicas tends to meet an unpleasant end. This doomed family must find redemption or relief through the bonds they make. Some bonds are strictly antagonistic, others helpful and even loving. As meaningful as these bonds are, they are also prone to tragedy.
The Blood of the Enemy is Ria’s story.
Summary of The Amulet of the Phoenix: Three years ago, Drystan was defeated by Ria and her allies. Many were lost in that underground battle, including Ria herself.
Urdresselias, Arungeist, and Kasimira each have their own ways of coping with the loss of their family. Mira feels she must act as a guide for Lias and Geist in their time of grief, as she has lost more than she would like to delve into. However, her past comes creeping back up on her when her estranged biological family requests she help save her cousin Avenasker, who is a member of the Guardians of the Amulet of the Phoenix. Mira, once having been a member of their rival the Black Blood Guild, has only one ally among the guardians.
That ally is Ria’s twin sister, Faewolf Inimica.
Lias and Geist accompany Mira on her journey to save her cousin. Together they encounter past allies turned villains, new villains turned allies, old loves dead or gone, and new loves offering gentle assurances when all else is grim. When the deed of rescuing Avenasker is done, they may even have the chance to regain some of what they lost in the battle against Drystan.
In The White Dragon Saga, we follow the lives of the accursed family the Inimicas, fallen kings and queens notorious for their violent ancestor the White Dragon. Any who come in contact with the Inimicas tends to meet an unpleasant end. This doomed family must find redemption or relief through the bonds they make. Some bonds are strictly antagonistic, others helpful and even loving. As meaningful as these bonds are, they are also prone to tragedy.
The Amulet of the Phoenix explores some of those tragic bonds.
Children of Different Worlds
Genre: Slice of life interdimensional fantasy
Summary of Children of Different Worlds: Running from an unknown tragedy, Eloise Cook stumbles into a liminal space between parallel universes and finds the Valley of the Dolls. Home to beautiful and terrifying gods, she finds within the enchanted woods a gothic manor that houses other wanderers, all of whom are also seeking refuge from their either dead or disturbed worlds. The Headmaster who runs the manor offers her a fresh start. Despite the strange and unfamiliar beings who reside there, she takes it.
Children of Different Worlds follows Eloise and her new housemates as they encounter magical beasts, ominous deities, and wayward souls while they individually confront what forced them to become wayward themselves. From demons to vampires, giant wolves to anthropomorphic ferrets, and cryptids to shadowfolk, everyone has their own skeletons threatening to march out and reacquaint themselves with their new safe space.
The series itself on Tapas has been discontinued for the time being. The complete first third of the Sturmundrang’s story will be published in an omnibus sometime in 2023, and will include edited versions of the chapters thus far as well as those unseen.
Sand and Silver
Genre: Crime and Suspense, Thriller, Dark Romance
Summary of Sand and Silver: Dusty, better known as Desert Rose Jamison thanks to her husband Carlisle, has lived a life of luxury and intrigue. When Carlisle sets her up with renowned hitman and mob leader Sterlyn “Silver” Schneider, however, she goes from being her husband’s prisoner to Sterlyn’s prisoner. In this study of Stockholm syndrome, two detectives hold an impromptu investigation of what happened to this battered woman, and how she managed to not only escape but allegedly kill the man who upended her entire life.
Summary of Dice and Discards: A Companion Novella to Sand and Silver: Joe had always been “Just Joe.” The worst that had ever happened to him was losing his family’s support because of his sexuality, and falling in love with a rich man’s live-in boy toy. Then he met Sterlyn “Silver” Schneider, who called him by his full name and invited him to the seedy underworld that was taking contracts out on people’s lives. He offered to teach Joe how to steal the lives of those who hurt people, while unintentionally stealing Joe’s heart. Going from “Just Joe” to the right hand of an infamous hitman is no small feat, and many ask themselves how a man as insidious as Sterlyn could gain the loyalty of someone so unassuming as Johanan Jeffers. Before Sterlyn ever laid eyes on his eventual captive Dusty, he’d already taken Joe prisoner.
Wild Things Should Stay Wild
Genre: Magical realism, fantasy, interdimensional travel
Summary of Wild Things Should Stay Wild: The multiverse is vast, but it feels so small when stories interlock across time and space. It all starts with a skinwalker looking deeper into what it means to be a member of the Red Cord. Over time, he will realize just how much greater his story truly is. A lonely god. A space adventuress. A coven of witches led by terrifying forces. Terrifying forces that resemble those who are familiar. This is the story of Tea, the skinwalker. Of Bard, the God of Other Worlds. Of Allie, the Saint of Boundaries. Of the people they meet and the worlds they find. Welcome to Wild Things Should Stay Wild.
Rowan Liddell 