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Those Who Went Before
Available March 2025
The Lady in White and the Hunter of Night is Helvensgate’s most beloved children’s tale. It tells of two lovers, blessed by magic and damned by fate, whose quest to save the kingdom left them cursed to sleep for centuries.
Everything in the story is wrong.
A thousand years ago, Adecca was sent away from her village to serve the spirits of the dead; Mikael was exiled after being cursed by the Wood. They were each other’s best and only friends—or so Adecca thought—until, with one desperate and unexpected kiss, Mikael enchanted them both with eternal sleep.
Now Adecca has awakened to an empire in crisis. The empire’s machines are out of control, and act as if they have minds of their own, and the empress and the engineering guilds are on the brink of a civil war. Surely, as the stories go, the Lady and the Hunter will heal the heart of this broken nation. Adecca could have everything she ever wanted here—a home, and actual friends!—and all she must do is give up the truth of what she really feels for Mikael and who she truly is.
Clearly, something must be sacrificed. But does it always have to be her?
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Justice Unending
Evernight Teen, 2016
Within the walls of the Bastion, it’s an honor to become a host for an Unending–the bodiless, immortal spirits who rule the country.
But for Faye, it meant her sister would have to die.
When Faye sneaks into the Mother Duchess’s manor, she just wanted to see her sister one last time. Instead, Faye finds a manor in chaos, a murdered man, and an Unending assassin named Aris who needs a new body–Faye’s body–to bring the Bastion to its knees.
Now Faye’s harboring the Bastion’s most wanted criminal. And if she wants to live, she’ll have to escape the Duchess and her immortals, all while keeping Aris from harming anyone else.
There’s just one problem–Aris is not the villain. And now Faye is the only one who can help her stop the Duchess before anyone else–and especially Faye–has to die for the Unendings’ whims.
Short Fiction
- Esoteric Wildlife, Triptych Tales, March 2015, Reprinted in Triptych Tales: The Anthology (2017)
- A Long-Forgotten Memory, Triangulation: Parch, July 2014
- Aspidochelone, Spellbound, Summer 2014
Contests
- 3rd Place: Voices from Antiquity, 2015 Parsec Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Story Contest
- 2nd Place: A Long-Forgotten Memory, 2014 Parsec Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Story Contest