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Into a Vault of Blood , book #3 in the Pearl Dragon novella series, is now available on Amazon and Amazon Kindle Unlimited! The blurb New Orleans. A city brimming with spiritual energy and magic. Art thief Pearl Tham is lured out of hiding. The Fortingris werewolves might still be after her for what she did in France, but the promise of long-lost treasure is too tempting.  She travels to a Haitian vodou shop in New Orleans expecting to learn the location of a painting she’s long wanted. Instead, she finds trouble of the worst kind. It isn’t in her nature to run, so she does what she does best: go into full battle mode.  The problem is, she’s fighting the most bloodthirsty of the supernatural entities that call New Orleans home. Laissez les bons temps rouler. Let the good times roll.  Dive into this fast-paced adventure if you love strong female antiheroes, monster slaying, high stakes, werewolves, and vampires.  *********************************** These novellas a...

Book #3 of the Pearl Dragon series is now available for preorder!  The novella will be released Oct. 15, in the midst of spooky season. Bwahahahaha … Check it out here . Blurb:  New Orleans. A city brimming with spiritual energy and magic. Art thief Pearl Tham is lured out of hiding. The Fortingris werewolves might still be after her for what she did in France, but the promise of long-lost treasure is too tempting.  She travels to a Haitian vodou shop in New Orleans expecting to learn the location of a painting she’s long wanted. Instead, she finds trouble of the worst kind. It isn’t in her nature to run, so she does what she does best: go into full battle mode.  The problem is, she’s fighting the most bloodthirsty of the supernatural entities that call New Orleans home. Laissez les bons temps rouler. Let the good times roll. Dive into this fast-paced adventure if you love strong female antiheroes, monster slaying, high stakes, werewolves, and vampires.  If you...

Look what I got today from a fortune cookie at the Panda Express. Not bad for an author, right? Do you set any store by what a fortune cookie says?  As for me …  Have you been to Ye Olde Curiosity Shop at the Seattle waterfront? The shop was founded in 1899. There are all kinds of “curiosities” inside, including two mummified bodies, a “mermaid” and a collection of shrunken heads. Yep, it’s a spooky place. Well worth seeing if you’re in the area, and into spooky.  When I visited the shop many years ago, I tried the fortune teller machine for fun. The fortune I got was so specific, so accurate and so timely that I was a little freaked out. It was a problem with which I was wrestling. I took the machine’s advice, and things turned out well.  Anyhoo, let’s just say I don’t ignore good advice, no matter where I get it.  A fortune cookie also played a role for my husband’s family. You can read about it here in my blog. 

On a recent road trip to southern Virginia, we stopped by the Union Level ghost town, which touts itself as the state’s most photographed ghost town.  The town of Union Level, like so many other jurisdictions in the South, went through periods of bust and boom. Situated in the heart of Virginia’s tobacco country, Union Level prospered alongside the vast plantations that surrounded it.  The Civil War in the 1860s hit the town hard. In the early 1900s, the Southern Railroad ran a line through Union Level, and it began to thrive again.  Then came the Great Depression in the 1930s, from which the town never recovered. Businesses shuttered and people departed. The final blow was dealt when the rail line left in the 1980s.  Tobacco is still grown in the nearby farms. All that remains of the once-bustling town, however, is a row of derelict storefronts and a church.  As I was photographing the ghost town, I was startled by something moving between the buildings. To my ...

Under a Hunter’s Moon , the second book in my Pearl Dragon series, will be available on Amazon and Amazon Kindle Unlimited starting Aug. 1. If you can't wait, you can pre-order the novella right now!  Blurb A castle in the French Pyrenees. A priceless relic.  Art thief Pearl Tham is presented with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. And the truth is, she can’t afford to pass it up. The underworld art community has shunned her following the disastrous tomb-raiding incident in China a year ago. Pearl has another reason to take the job. She has her eye on something that could secure her reputation with her customers. The assignment, however, isn’t what it seems. An unforeseen complication springs up, the lycanthropic kind. Pearl is forced to fight for survival under the light of the full moon. It helps that she herself is one ornery, tough-to-kill, badass bitch. Pick up this fast-paced adventure if you like strong female antiheroes, Asian magic, and werewolves! Click here to che...

My novella Offerings for the Dead is now available on Amazon and Amazon Kindle Unlimited! The book features Pearl Tham, a grave robber and art thief with magical abilities. She can manipulate qi, the vital essence or life force flowing through living as well as non-living things.  If you’ve read The Geomancer’s Apprentice series, you’ll know that Pearl is geomancer Joe Tham’s half sister, and a thorough badass.  Offerings for the Dead is the first book in the Pearl Dragon novella series, revolving around Pearl’s early adventures in her quest for treasure and relics.  Under a Hunter’s Moon , the second book in the series, is now available through pre-order . The books were previously available only to my newsletter subscribers. I hope you check out the new novellas. I’ll be adding to the stories in time. This series is for you if you want a quick read with fast-paced action. Blurb for Offerings for the Dead A tomb hidden in a remote mountain in China, filled with treasu...