Melisandra has taken over Oz’s kingdom and redecorated it – in red. A queen should be able to do what she wants, when she wants and to whom she wants, right? If only the magical shoes didn’t extract such a toll for all their teleportation magic.

Tam has become the assassin Lyssa accused him to be. His curse forgotten, his heart lost along with the box, life has no taste anymore. Until a king displays a “newly acquired magical object” to his guests and Lyssa walks back into his life.

Will Tam tame Mellie or will she resist her happily-ever-after? Will Mellie be sane enough to remember him? And how does it feel like to hold the heart of the one you love in your hands? Literally.

Pre-order book #3 in the Cursed Hearts trilogy when it becomes available and find out.

Melisandra is up to her elbow in nappies and milk. All her plans – for her beauty shop, for becoming someone, for love – all gone up in smoke. Thievery or tying down Oz are her only chances at a good life now. If only she could find that philandering beast first!

Tam can’t watch his Lyssa make one mistake after another. His heart would be broken – if he had one. Not even in his wildest dreams could he have predicted that the fortune-teller’s magic box would come in handy.

Obsession always demands a price.

Will Mellie find Oz and have her happily-ever-after? Will Tam be able to forget Mellie? And are shrews meant to be tamed or waited out?

Pre-order book #2 Your Heart to Tame and find out. The Cursed Hearts trilogy is a dark, cross-generational (YA/NA) fantasy of love, betrayal, and the fragile line between survival and villainy, spanning torturous decades while a selfish protagonist is forced to grow up.

A novellette about what happens when you try to steal stuff (or people)

What if you were tasked to draw dragon after dragon after dragon – ad nauseam and in captivity – to resurrect an entire realm?

Well, I cursed the lot of them.

Heartbroken over the treachery of the angel who was supposed to guard her, Lottie is trying to keep busy. Drawing one dragon after another and watching them leap off the page and out the window. If only she could leave her tower. But her captor said no without giving any reasons. If to believe all the storybooks, her happily-ever-after should be here soon. In the guise of a charming prince, no doubt.

Except her happy ending has been five hundred years coming and her only visitor is an annoying dragon she drew to life who keeps loitering about her tower. Doubtlessly to steal something.

Why couldn’t her affections be reciprocated centuries ago? Why is Gil so annoying? And where is her HEA?

This novella is a Rapunzel / Snow White mashup retelling and links to the author’s other works, but can be enjoyed as a standalone short story and a soundbite of the author’s writing style.

In case you love dragons, this novelette is also featured in my single-author anthology “Tales of the Dragons”.

Melisandra was never meant for polite society. As the fatherless daughter of a witch, she has learned to beg, borrow, and steal her way toward respectability—because no one hands girls like her a future.

So the prince chose another girl. Fine. Mellie never planned on letting anyone into her frozen heart anyway.

At seventeen, she has a far simpler dream: escape Borough village and save enough coin to open her own beauty shop. How hard can it be to find a decent apothecary who needs an apprentice?

Tamerlin knows better than most how words spoken in anger can become an unbreakable curse. Traveling the neighboring lands incognito, he is searching for the one girl who might help him break his own. When he catches sight of a sharp-eyed vixen in a tavern—sweet as candy, spying on patronsand stealing food —he can’t take his eyes off her. But what if the girl of his dreams isn’t the innocent she pretends to be?

Some choices shape monsters.

Because survival always demands a price.

What would you do to make sure you never went hungry again?

Your Heart to Seek is the first book in the Cursed Hearts trilogy, a dark mixed generation (YA/NA) fantasy tale of curses, betrayal, and the fragile line between villainy and survival.

After her abusive ex Victor drives himself into a tree, Grace is scarred off men for life. Two years later, she rescues an orange tabby kitten and suddenly, a tall, blond and handsome man—the complete opposite of her ex—becomes a hovering presence.

When the monitors at the Agency of Guardian Angels start recording Grace’s uneventful life, the Watchers know it’s a warning. To save the girl from an impending bullet, Gabriel jumps to the rescue – in cat form.

Will Gabriel be able to find out the identity of the elusive assassin before there is an “again”? Can Grace get over her past to trust a guy who, strangely, is not angling for a date? And why does the existence of that particular orphaned girl make the Tally of Good & Evil go crazy?

Save Me is the main book in the Agency of Guardian Angels series and happens thirteen years before Charm & Mayhem and/or Cinders. Although it features Grace who later becomes the stepmother in Cinders, it can be read as a standalone from both of the author’s other series. The series provides a glimpse into the saves Gabriel undertook for the Agency before he retired and had anything to atone for in Charm & Mayhem.

Well, then, all you have to do is ask and one will be provided for you, free of charge by the Agency of Guardian Angels, in any hour of night or day in any of the known 63 dimensions.

Having nightmares and wish to be rescued from them? No problem, Helreginne, the permanent guardian of the Hel dimension, will sort you out.

Delve into these tales of temporary and permanent recruitment and find out how angels, Charmings and knights differ and how the Boss of the Agency manages the supply chain of things to help those in need. Not just damsels, mind you. Some damsels, can, of course, help themselves, but if not – a plea for ANY help usually does the trick.

Recruit Me is a prequel novella to the Guardian Angels Agency series. It was originally part of the book “Someone To Watch Over Me” and gives the backstory of the guardians and damsels you meet in the duology.

Mirrors and shoes are definitely magical artefacts. But who created them? Where? And how? Read this short story and find out.

This is a standalone prequel novella to my Goddesses as well as Magic Mirrors Saga series, which can be read without delving into the why’s and the how’s.

Tales of the Mirrors is a set of 5 short fairytale retellings:

1. To Thaw a Heart – a Snow Queen retelling with a Romanov curse;
2. To Make a Wish – a twisty mashup of Aladdin, Alice in Wonderland, Anastasia, the Frog Prince, Hans & Greta and other fairytales;
3. To Kiss a Frog – the Frog Prince retelling;
4. To Kill a Beast – Belle’s jilted huntsman’s HEA;
5. To Cure a Curse – a Belle & Beast retelling.

Grizelda the witch from Cinders (aka Marina the Goddess of Fate from Charm) takes center stage in this set, meddling through the consequences of her wish. Belle and the vainest bachelor of the village make an appearance as well. You might remember the silver and bronze mirrors from Cinders, the iron one from Ash and the golden one from Charm. Or get introduced to them here.

These short stories link to the author’s other books, but are related standalones that can be read separately as small soundbites and enjoyed by both young adult and new adult audiences. If you’re a fan of Roald Dahl and Sarah Pinborough’s twisted tales, this should be up your alley.