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The Pitch: Markham has returned to Seattle, searching for Katarina, the girl who, a decade ago, touched his soul, literally tearing it from his body. But what he discovers upon arriving is dark magick . . . of a most ancient and destructive kind.
An encounter with a desperate spirit, leaping [...]

Celebrating the release of Lightbreaker, there will be a reading on June 16th at Borderlands Books, in San Francisco.
Borderlands Books
866 Valencia
San Francisco, CA
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Time: 7:00pm

From darkness into light. That rushing panic as you remember how to breathe. Your skin, pricked by the points of a thousand needles. Your heart, a supercharged piston pounding in your chest. A vise, loosened one turn from its tight grip on your nuts. And then, finally, after a seeming eternity, the basal senses: sight, [...]

The men outside Pierre’s house had some incentive, hearing the howling echo of the wolf, and they gave up on being polite. The jamb in the door frame splintered the second time someone kicked at the door, and on the third try, wood separated. A piece of metal sang off the floor, and the door [...]

The tiny village of Béchenaux was like a spray of spring mushrooms on the bark of an old tree. A scattering of houses along the line of an old highway: two bars, a handful of restaurants, a post office with administrative services on the upper floor, a grocer, and a rambling old mansion that had [...]

René was leaning against Antoine’s car and smoking a cigarette. His sight line of the twisted road that went up to the ruined castle was partially obscured by his car, parked downslope from Antoine’s, which meant when I couldn’t see him, he couldn’t see me. He jumped when I appeared next to his [...]

From darkness to light. The sun, cresting the building on the other side of the street. The tables outside of Deux Magots, no longer in shadow. Her face, in sharp relief as the morning makes her skin glow. Her smile, as she spots you crossing the street. Her lips, touching [...]

The first two chapters of Lightbreaker are online at Bookspotcentral.
Chapters I & II
“Whom thou flyest, of him thou art,
His flesh, his bone; to give thee being I lent
Out of my side to thee, nearest my heart,
Substantial life, to have thee by my side
Henceforth an individual solace dear;
Part of my soul I seek thee, and thee [...]

[ forthcoming, 2010 ]
Seek the Light
Embrace the Heartland
The Pitch: Markham returns to Paris where he lost his love, and nearly his life. The ancient order of manipulative magicians that once cast him out is now in turmoil . . . a turmoil made all the greater by the swaths of destruction that Markham [...]