(Debut novel)
Synopsis:
"On a cool evening in Kolkata, India, beneath a full moon, as the
whirling rhythms of traveling musicians fill the night, college
professor Alok encounters a mysterious stranger with a bizarre
confession and an extraordinary story. Tantalized by the man’s
unfinished tale, Alok will do anything to hear its completion. So Alok
agrees, at the stranger’s behest, to transcribe a collection of battered
notebooks, weathered parchments, and once-living skins.
From
these documents spills the chronicle of a race of people at once more
than human yet kin to beasts, ruled by instincts and desires blood-deep
and ages-old. The tale features a rough wanderer in seventeenth-century
Mughal India who finds himself irrevocably drawn to a defiant woman—and
destined to be torn asunder by two clashing worlds. With every passing
chapter of beauty and brutality, Alok’s interest in the stranger grows
and evolves into something darker and more urgent."
(Book two of the Caeli-Amur)
Synopsis:
"With the seditionists in power, Caeli-Amur has begun a new age. Or
has it? The escaped House officials no longer send food, and the city is
starving.
When the moderate leader Aceline is murdered, the trail
leads Kata to a mysterious book that explains how to control the fabled
Prism of Alerion. But when the last person to possess the book is found
dead, it becomes clear that a conspiracy is afoot. At its center is
former House Officiate Armand, who has hidden the Prism. Armand is vying
for control of the Directorate, the highest political position in the
city, until Armand is betrayed and sent to a prison camp to mine deadly
bloodstone.
Meanwhile, Maximilian is sharing his mind with
another being: the joker-god Aya. Aya leads Max to the realm of the
Elo-Talern to seek a power source to remove Aya from Max's brain. But
when Max and Aya return, they find the vigilants destroying the last
remnants of House power.
It seems the seditionists' hopes for a
new age of peace and prosperity in Caeli-Amur have come to naught, and
every attempt to improve the situation makes it worse. The question now
is not just whether Kata, Max, and Armand can do anything to stop the
bloody battle in the city, but if they can escape with their lives."
(Book four of the Flavia Albia series)
Synopsis:
"On a typical day, it's small cases---cheating spouses, employees
dipping into the till---but this isn't a typical day. Her beloved, the
plebeian Manlius Faustus, has recently moved in and decided that they
should get married in a big, showy ceremony as part of beginning a
proper domestic life together. Also, his contracting firm has been
renovating a rundown dive bar called The Garden of the Hesperides, only
to uncover human remains buried in the backyard. There have been rumors
for years that the previous owner of the bar, now deceased, killed a bar
maid and these are presumably her remains. In the choice between
planning a wedding and looking into a crime from long ago, Albia would
much rather investigate a possible murder. Or murders, as more and more
remains are uncovered, revealing that something truly horrible has been
going on at the Hesperides.
As she gets closer to the truth behind
the bodies in the backyard, Albia's investigation has put her in the
cross-hairs---which might be the only way she'll get out of the wedding
and away from all her relatives who are desperate to 'help.'"
(Story collection)
Table of Contents:
"The Blameless"
"Word Doll"
"The Angel Seems"
"Mount Chary Galore"
"A Natural History of Autumn"
"The Fairy Enterprise"
"The Thyme Fiend"
"The Last Triangle"
"Hibbler’s Minions"
"Rocket Ship to Hell"
"The Prelate’s Commission"
"A Terror"
"Blood Drive"
(Debut novel)
Synopsis:
"Since Newton witnessed a bubble rising from his bathtub, mankind has
sought the stars. When William III of England commissioned Capt. William
Kidd to command the first expedition to Mars in the late 1600s, he
proved that space travel was both possible and profitable.
Now,
one century later, a plantation in a flourishing British colony on Mars
is home to Arabella Ashby, a young woman who is perfectly content
growing up in the untamed frontier. But days spent working on complex
automata with her father or stalking her brother Michael with her
Martian nanny is not the proper behavior of an English lady. That is
something her mother plans to remedy with a move to an exotic world
Arabella has never seen: London, England.
However, when events
transpire that threaten her home on Mars, Arabella decides that
sometimes doing the right thing is far more important than behaving as
expected. She disguises herself as a boy and joins the crew of the
Diana,
a ship serving the Mars Trading Company, where she meets a mysterious
captain who is intrigued by her knack with clockwork creations. Now
Arabella just has to weather the naval war currently raging between
Britain and France, learn how to sail, and deal with a mutinous crew…if
she hopes to save her family remaining on Mars."
(Book three of the Thessaly series)
Synopsis:
"More than sixty-five years ago, Pallas Athena founded the Just City
on an island in the eastern Mediterranean, placing it centuries before
the Trojan War, populating it with teachers and children from throughout
human history, and committing it to building a society based on the
principles of Plato's
Republic. Among the City's children was Pytheas, secretly the god Apollo in human form.
Sixty years ago, the Just City schismed into five cities, each devoted to a different version of the original vision.
Forty
years ago, the five cities managed to bring their squabbles to a close.
But in consequence of their struggle, their existence finally came to
the attention of Zeus, who can't allow them to remain in deep antiquity,
changing the course of human history. Convinced by Apollo to spare the
Cities, Zeus instead moved everything on the island to the planet Plato,
circling its own distant sun.
Now, more than a generation has
passed. The Cities are flourishing on Plato, and even trading with
multiple alien species. Then, on the same day, two things happen.
Pytheas dies as a human, returning immediately as Apollo in his full
glory. And there's suddenly a human ship in orbit around Plato--a ship
from Earth."
