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Guide to Reading Order
(…which you’ll find surprising flexible.)
The Keeper Chronicles
(A great place to start.)
(But can be read at any time.)
My first published trilogy which is (unsurprisingly) the chronicles of the Keepers.
Who are the Keepers?
They're Historian/Storyteller/Mages
And these are a few of the times they save the World
This trilogy tells the story of three different Keepers as they go about their normal lives:
- telling stories
- reading books
- running from dragons
- writing books
- visiting dwarves
- keeping books
- befriending elves
- smelling books
- being betrayed by companions
- looking lovingly at books
- fighting frost goblins
- did I mention the books?
- oh, and saving the world, several times over.
Book 1: A Threat of Shadows
Book 2: Pursuit of Shadows
Book 3: Siege of Shadows
The Keeper Origins
(A great place to start.)
(But can be read at any time.)
This is my second published trilogy.
But as the name implies, it is chronologically first, being the Origin of the Keepers, and taking place 400 years before the Keeper Chronicles.
Why did I do this? No one knows.
Maybe just to create a confusing reading order.
Traveling Theater Troupe Saves the world.
The world met the Keepers of Queensland in The Keeper Chronicles.
Meanwhile, 400 years in the past, there are no Keepers yet. There’s not even the country of Queensland.
There is only a young woman named Sable who’s indebted to a ruthless gang boss and trapped in the slums.
She has nothing but her younger sister and a longing for freedom.
Oh, and the power to sense when people are telling the truth.
Which comes in handy, if you’re headed for bigger and better things…
Book 1: Dragon's Reach
Book 2: Raven's Ruin
Book 3: Phoenix Rising
The Aenigma Lights
(Not the best place to start.)
(Could technically be read at any time, but probably should be read after Keeper Chronicles.)
This is my third published trilogy.
Chronologically it comes 20 years after Keeper Chronicles and we bump into several beloved characters from Keeper Chronicles.
Recommended Reading Order: After Keeper Chronicles.
Indiana Jones meets Lord of the Rings.
(If Indian Jones was a female Keeper and her best friend, an elf princess.)
Kate thought finding the puzzle box would give her all the answers.
But it only holds far more desperate questions.
A single mystery has evaded Keeper Kate all her life: What happened on the tragic day when two strangers stole not only the puzzle box that hummed with magic, but her younger brother, Evan?
Kate and her older brother Bo have searched for him for twenty years with no luck. Until Venn, a surly elf, shows up on the hidden doorstep of the Keepers’ Stronghold, with that same aenigma box—and a message that Bo has disappeared.
Kate needs a guide back to Venn’s homeland to search for him, and Venn needs to find him for reasons of her own. Reasons she refuses to explain.
Despite their mutual distrust, Kate and Venn form a grudging alliance.
Somewhere in the midst of infiltrating dwarven tunnels, discovering the secrets of the aenigma box, and stumbling onto shocking ancient relics, the alliance shifts to friendship.
But as the search for Bo grows increasingly dangerous, they uncover a complex plot woven through centuries, devastating not just individuals, but entire empires.
And even working together, the inexplicable forces standing against them may be too much.
Half treasure hunt and half rescue mission, this epic fantasy adventure is a tale of puzzles, mysteries, and the kinds of friendships—both old and new—that shape the soul.
Short Stories
(Hmmm...probably decent places to start...)
I have written a handful of short stories, all set in the world of the Keepers. They relate more or less closely to one or more of the trilogies.
But every story stands on it's own as a complete, quick little tale that will give you a good introduction to my writing, or flesh out a story or character that you learned of in one of the trilogies.
For a description of each story, visit the Short Stories page.