Book 1 of The Misbegotten Series, Flames of a Falling God, is now available on Amazon!
On the Summer Solstice, Mesopotamian gods broke free from their celestial prison and landed across North America in a series of destructive firestorms. Called “The Misbegotten” because of their petty and cruel natures, the gods brought back their idea of normal: subjugating humans and building personal territories through the use of etemmu, or life force. Now humans are rebuilding society within those territories, dependent on the personality of the deity.
Flames of a Falling God
The end of the world begins as fire rains down from the heavens. Ancient gods are released from their prison, eager to reestablish their long-lost power. But Rachel Deneuve has bigger, more contemporary concerns than a divine war.
Her son Adam is in the middle of a fight against leukemia, and Rachel is determined to keep focused on that battle. But when humans begin picking sides and the fighting escalates, their home in Baltimore becomes a war zone, one she can’t ignore.
Desperate to stay away from the carnage—as well as the germ-ridden refugee center—Rachel and Adam flee to their remote mountain cottage, only to find their refuge marred by mutated, grotesque plants and animals. Eventually, the cancerous cells in Adam's body begin evolving as well, threatening his life and forcing Rachel to venture back into the eye of the storm. Left with no other choice but to sacrifice her own freedom for her son's safety, she must become an unwilling warrior in a battle unlike anything seen in millennia, or lose everything she holds dear.
I wrote the first version of this novel when I was staying with my young child at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD. That's the Inner Harbor on the cover.
Ashes of Regret
What if ancient gods from the Old Testament returned and carved the United States into territories that reflected each deity?
What if these Mesopotamian gods, called “The Misbegotten” for their pettiness and cruelty, started subjugating humans and planning for war?
What if the gods brought back magic with their deadly firestorms?
A clever-but-impulsive human survivor, Tamaki Hayashi, has never credited her grandmother’s stories about plant magic until desperation forces her to discover her own plant-bending powers.
Threatened and alone, Tamaki has no one to guide her through learning her power. Anger and rage compel her to tap blood magic in implanting the spirit of her dead ex-boyfriend into the body of a fox.
Determined to fix her mistakes, Tamaki has to decide whether addiction to blood magic is worth the chance for redemption. Sometimes, wickedness is the only way out.
Love blooms in even the harshest places.
Dystopian Ink proudly presents the 2023 anthology, Love and Other Dangers, which includes sixteen stories that are action-packed, romantic adventures set in dystopian futures and post-apocalyptic landscapes where heroines of all shapes and sizes find love at the end of the world.
In "Finders Keepers", set after Flames of a Falling God and Ashes of Regret, Rachel and Captain Lewis fight romantic feelings for each other as they travel to the seventh gate of Hell (Kur) only to find that they will each have to sacrifice to leave.
“It’s like bite-sized romance stories for fans of The Hunger Games, Divergent, Red Queen, The Selection, and Matched. This is an anthology you won’t be able to put down!” -- Amazon Review