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Sometimes After Dark
A collection of thoughtful tales
Among the tales collected here to make you think, question, and wonder …
- A rescue mission in a combat zone on a hostile planet becomes something more
- A young girl, searching for the parents who abandoned her, discovers that some answers only lead to more questions
- A young boy learns that it takes more than superpowers to become a hero
- A man who had led a less-than-perfect life finds out that it’s never too late for redemption
- A dying Afghanistan veteran’s last moments of his life are not what he expected them to be
- And, sometimes, on the night before Christmas, it is not always a silent night
Explore the past, future, and triumphs of the human soul.
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The Jiminy
A man who had led a less-than-perfect life finds out that it’s never too late for redemption.
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Saying Goodbye
A young girl, searching for the parents who abandoned her, discovers that some answers only lead to more questions.
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Best Intentions
Book One of the Glass Bottles Series
When your past is left undone, it will come find you.
Fern Fatelli is a private investigator, specializing in more shady activities than finding children. The situation that launches her deeper into the uncertain realm of Magick is Fern being hired to expose Hervald Thensome, a prominent businessman in Halifax, Nova Scotia, as an adulterer. From this point on, Fern’s situation spirals deeper into the realm of magic and danger.
Attacks by a mysterious man, and her own contracted adventure with kidnapping a general’s family keep Fern walking a tightrope between her own concerns, and those around her, and her past. Her sister Fawn, a police lieutenant becomes involved as attacks on Fern become tinged with Magick and their shared past. The past comes back in full force with a revealing of the true reason why Fern and Fawn’s parents cast the spell that destroyed the family so many years ago.
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Broken Bridge
Book Two of the Glass Bottles Series
Sometimes a broken bridge has to be crossed.
Talk about Byzantine influences.
Fern Fatelli is approached by a desperate father to find his daughter before something bad happens to her, only to find that the job is really a diversion made to have her owe a service to a fae lord.
Cobb, the fae lord, then contracts Fern, not as a finder, but as a wizard, and forces her to re-open the Anolyn way.
As this is going on, Cobb is deliberately obstructing her research, and, more sinisterly, sending creatures to attack her, all the while expecting results.
What does a girl do to get a break?
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Beguiling Voices
Book Three of the Glass Bottles Series
Never trust magic … or the people that hire you.
Fern Fatelli dives back into her job as a ‘trapper’, and is hired to kidnap a girl away from an abusive household — only to find that she’s delivered the child into a far greater danger than she could have ever imagined.
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A Last Good Day
A Glass Bottles Story
Family outings are fun. Getting together, sharing some good times and making good memories. But what kind of memories are made when the world changes?
A loving father, a doting mother, and two children. It’s a rewarding, quiet life.
That life is changed in an instant when the world changes, and an idyllic Friday becomes a shocking nightmare as magic roars to life, changing people, and the world in ways that no one can expect.
A Last Good Day becomes a struggle for survival in a world gone mad, where the merest thought creates a reality that should only belong in nightmares.
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Hot Drop
What starts as a rescue mission in a combat zone on a hostile planet becomes something more.
On a world where perception is distorted, can they find their objective before they lose themselves?