Published novels
Stories from
the shadows.
Step into Blackridge or beneath the city of Caldris. Both series begin here.
Debut novel · Book one of the Elliott Mercer series
The Quiet Between Us
Twenty-five years ago, eight-year-old Emma Mercer disappeared from Blackridge, Ohio. No body was found. No one was arrested. After years of searches and unanswered questions, her older brother Elliott did the only thing he knew how to do: he left.
Now his father is dead, and Elliott has returned to the town he spent half his life trying to forget. Hidden among Thomas Mercer’s belongings is evidence that he never stopped searching for Emma—and that shortly before his death, he may finally have found something.
As Elliott follows a trail of conflicting memories, old stories, and questions leading back to the woods where Emma was last seen, the past becomes less certain. Blackridge has spent twenty-five years telling itself a story about what happened to Emma. Thomas died believing that story was wrong.
The Dead Gods · Book one
When Gods Wake
The gods have been dead for centuries. Caldris built an empire from their remains.
Dr. Sera Voss has spent eleven years studying the anatomy of Aestra, the dead god beneath the city. She knows every vessel, chamber, and impossible structure carved into the divine body. More importantly, she knows dead things don’t move.
Then a cutter dies inside a chamber that shouldn’t have been able to kill him—and something shifts beneath Sera’s hand.
Someone knows what is happening beneath the city. Someone has worked very hard to keep it hidden. And if Sera is right, Aestra may not be the only god who was never truly dead.