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Novels
Current Project
Saturnalia (a clockwork Gothic)
The City so vast it has forgot its own name is running down. Has run down, and Zachariah Lane, once a blues musician and now a middle-aged, drug-addicted failure, can do nothing but watch. Nothing, until his bandmate and roommate Gregory brings home a half-dead teenaged girl born on a level lower than either man has ever ventured: at the bottommost works, where her foster father Janus has poisoned the machine at the heart of the city.
Zeke and Gregory don't want to be heroes. But when the decay finally comes for their home on the eve of Saturnalia week, where master is servant and up becomes down, there is no choice but flight – and foundling Kaira leads them down, through the dead levels of the bloodied city, to the lightless cavern where she was raised. The journey through their tainted and broken city forces them through withdrawal, love-strained friendships, and the shattering of everything they've ever known. But Zachariah Lane is a fuckup, not a hero. And he's missing the answer to one crucial question:
How do you unrot a world?
Finished Novels
Above (an unconventional urban fantasy)
Matthew's father had lion's feet and his mother had gills, and both fled the modern-day city to live in underground Safe, a secret community of freaks, ghost-whisperers, and disabled outcasts hidden beyond the subways and sewers. Raised underground, Matthew is responsible for the keeping of both Safe's histories and the traumatized shapeshifter Ariel, the girl he took in, fell in love with – and can't stop from constantly running away.
But Safe is no longer safe: the night after a frightening encounter in the sewers, Safe's founder Atticus is murdered by the one person Safe ever exiled: mad Corner, whose coup is backed by an army of mindless, whispering shadows.
Only Matthew, Ariel, and a handful of unstable, crippled compatriots escape to the city that cast them out; the dangerous place he knows only as Above. Despite Ariel's increasingly erratic behaviour and with the odds against them, Matthew must find a way to rescue Safe from Corner's occupying army. But as his quest leads him through abandoned asylums and the dregs of urban poverty, Matthew discovers that the histories he's devoted his life to aren't true: Corner's invasion -- and Ariel's terrors – are rooted in a history of Safe much darker and bloodier than Matthew ever imagined.
And even if he manages to save both home and Ariel, he may well lose himself.
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