Cover Art and New Release: All Mad Here, a Four Courts Novella

Coming in March

A Wonderland Romp for one lucky Knight

and the two princesses who long for his heart

 

Chronicles of the Four Courts:

Goblin Fires

All Mad Here (Coming Soon!)

Get to Know the World of the Four Courts

 

Top Ten Things to do in Thairy

When You're a Half-Sidhe Knight

10. Race with the Hounds of Herne – If you're fleet of foot, you can take your chances trying to run with the goblin hounds. The High King of Autumn sends these puppies after those who most annoy him... because he likes watching the dogs run their prey to ground.

9.  Go for a Ride with the Puca – This shapeshifter has been known to travel the roads as a dark black horse in the middle of the night. Climb on his back, and he'll run wild across the countryside until he bucks you into a ditch at dawn. Some of the Unseelie faeries like to keep a betting pool to see if any Knight has what it takes to keep from being thrown. So far, none has.

8. Visit the Hookah Dens of the Drow – Share a traditional pipe with these Winter fae. Rather than tobacco, they enjoy a unique delicacy from the lands of Oberon with a crisp, sweet flavor, a rare bloom they call "snowdrop".

7. Take a Walk Through the Hanging Gardens of Tír na nÓg – In the land of the Springtime Elves, you'll find the breathtaking gardens of the Faerie Queene, Glorianna.  She keeps scores of beautiful flora from all over the mortal world, and the unknown reaches of Thairy. As an added bonus, you could run into Ladies Nineva and Nerissa... the stunning princesses of the Court of Elves.

6. Listen to the Mermaids Sing – Titania's famous mermaid choirs are great, as long as you can keep from throwing yourself into the deep to swim into their arms.  They'd be more than happy to welcome you, of course...but they're not keen on letting go.

5. Celebrate May Day with the Shining Throng – Summer fae love holidays and parties.  May Day is quite a favorite! And if you're the frisky type, you'll find no shortage of like-minded playmates to share the festivities.

4. Arm Wrestle with a Buggane – These massive, black-haired ogres used to terrorize humans on the Isle of Man, but they never venture outside the realms of Thairy anymore. The Knights are among the only fae with the strength to pose a challenge to them when it comes to arm-wrestling, and the bugganes actually like a bit of friendly competition!

3. Scale the Glaciers of Oberon's Realms – The cliffs of ice in The Winter King's backyard rival any of the great peaks in the mortal world. Only the most physically primed dare to attempt then—and even the Knights have to be at the top of their game.

2.  Win a Dance with an Enchanted Moura – These ghostly fae ladies frequent monoliths and dolmens throughout Thairy and the mortal world. They're usually looking for mortal men to set them free from their enchantments, but they’ve been known to come up from their thrones to favor a Knight with a dance... if he's charming enough.

1.  Join the Neverending Bacchanal – If you can find the wild ring of Unbridled faeries in service to Sovereign Medb, they are rumored to hold an everlasting celebration of wine and fruits of the earth. Rebellious fae from all Four Courts are said to have been taken by the Bacchanal, and now eternally celebrate in a timeless party.  If any Knight has located the Bacchanal before, they haven't let the secret slip; others warn that those who enter into the ring of Medb's faeries may not find the will to leave it for centuries, if ever.

Friday Free Read: Dysmorphia

Here's a bit of an experimental "challenge" piece, prompted by a fellow author. It needs a little cleanup, for sure, but I'm actually very pleased with the results.

“Oh, honestly, Harold?”

Francesca Delaney threw down the handful of business mail she’d just retrieved outside. Crossing her arms over her chest she glowered. Not even twenty-four hours back from his latest jet-setting jaunt –this time to Greece – and here sat her soon-to-be-ex husband, in her home office, being straddled by some new twenty-something. The little cunt’s simpering giggles carried well out into the hall and any of Francesca’s staff might hear it, just as they would surely witness the blatant sex-play with their own eyes simply walking past the wide-open double-doors. Harold wouldn’t mind any of it, of course. Humiliating Cesca just made him more pleased with himself.

As Francesca walked in on them, Harry’s red-headed bit of candy was holding both ends of his loosened tie in one fist. The bright, shimmering gold tips of her nails bit into his almost-naked chest a little above his heart. Francesca wondered if the cunt undid the buttons of his tailored dress shirt with her teeth. He’d always liked it when Cesca herself nipped them off. Back when he and Cesca still fucked. Now the two interlopers glanced up, feigning surprise. It must be feigned of course. They hadn’t ended up in her office by accident, after all.

Audio Free Read: Dichotomies, a Blood and Fire Short

 I've been wanting to go back and record some of my earlier short stories, and Dichotomies has been itching for my attention. With a new Blood and Fire novel on the way to e-book shelves, I thought it would be a great time to revisit my supernatural demons and their wicked ways.

Genesis -- A Friday Fantasy Free Read

Wizards have been the co-conspirators of dragons from the very beginning...

For in the beginning, the lords of nature looked upon the first dragons—immortal creatures, divine in their way, and dangerous under the wrong circumstances—and forbade the breeding of more. The first seven dragons were bound by Green Man's law never to entwine, and give rise to new undying beasts. They were divided, each to their own realm, separated by mirrors wrought of glass and green beryl, magic mirrors warded so dragons might never cross them.

"So they might never touch..."

Dichotomies - A Blood and Fire Free Read

A Friday Free Read

From the World of Blood and Fire

Velvet can be so cruel...

The witch Tarja twisted in her rope bonds with a low, lusty groan. It seemed it could be hours before Braeden would lash her again, and the skin of her back crawled in anticipation. His whip was long and crept along her back like tongues: eight tails in lush purple velvet, like soft, slithering fingers; small steel balls sleeved along the lengths at arbitrary intervals to carry the hard bite of punishment with each stroke. The ache of the balls far outlasted the caress, but each new lash lavished her bruises like a luxurious kiss.

Angelic

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Friday Flashers!

I've recently joined a group of writers who flex their writing muscles every Friday by writing a bit of 100-word (no more!!) flash fiction, based on a picture posted for inspiration.  Here, lovelies, is my first attempt!

 

 Magic means Brennan and Sarayana. I just had an excellent guest post on sex magic here. So I give you my first 99 words of flash erotic fiction.

Damp air danced like electricity on sweat-soaked body; naked flesh radiating heat and energy. Brennan, chanting, stroked himself, staving off climax until the sex-charged magic reached its height—the wizard's erection throbbed, his cock twitched— 

Finally the spell took hold and the energy erupted from him; he took himself over the edge, stroking himself hard to orgasm and gasping out loud as he came into his hand.

In the silence afterward, he heard Sarayana moving close. One wing closed around his drenched, naked body. The dragon nuzzled him and he curled up against her warm hide to find sleep.