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Upcoming Book Releases

Marked in the Spire

Marked in the Spire is an adult epic fantasy with a strong romantic throughline, set in Harbor’s Edge—a fogbound port where brass engines run on shardlight and every miracle has a price.

Rook Voss survives on quick hands and quicker instincts, skirting the city’s wardlines and power brokers until one wrong night drags him into a conflict he doesn’t understand and can’t walk away from. When he’s marked by an otherworldly force, the city’s factions start hunting him for what he might become—and for what he might unlock.

Pulled toward the Spire itself—a god-built ascent that turns mortals into weapons—Rook is forced to choose who he trusts, what he’s willing to sacrifice, and whether love can survive in a world where power always demands payment.

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Shadows in the Spire

Shadows of the Spire continues the Spire saga with a darker, hotter kind of danger—one that doesn’t just threaten the body, but the will.

Rook Voss arrives in Velisse, the Spire’s Lust level: a neon-fog city built on humming rails and frictionless motion, where desire isn’t just a feeling—it’s a force that bends choices and blurs lines. When children start vanishing off the skimming routes and “too-perfect” strangers begin appearing in the wrong corners of the light, Rook is pulled into a street-level war between desperate orphan crews, the overworked Reclaimers trying to keep them alive, and predators that wear kindness like a mask. Alongside Captain Lyra and the Glassjackets, he’s forced to navigate gang politics, corrupt incentives, and a rival power broker whose “mercy” comes with chains.

As the investigation widens, the danger stops looking like random violence and starts looking like design—a pattern of influence, leverage, and hungry bargains stretching across the Spire’s systems. Rook’s bond with Aria deepens under the constant pressure of Velisse—turning intimacy into an anchor, and romance into something tested by temptation, jealousy, and consequence rather than wish-fulfillment. The result is an epic fantasy that keeps its scope high and its emotions sharp: action on the rails, moral weight in every “necessary” choice, and love that matters because it costs something to keep.