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The Day Magic Died
Book 1: The House in the Old Wood
When a game of hide-and-seek leads to a magically hidden house, Karia must grow up quickly. She discovers her family is not what it seems. Good intentions lead to her neighbor’s arrest. Her hopes and dreams crumble. Worst, she learns that magic desires to consume and control her. She will not allow that. She will end magic.
If she only knew how …
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Book 2: Karia’s Path
Karia’s quest is simple … but very dangerous. To destroy magic, she must learn its ways, learn how to use it, learn how to speak its language. But that opens the door for magic to begin trying to wrest control of her heart. Which thoughts and desires are really hers? Who can she trust?
More importantly: Who is she trusting?
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Book 3: The Hall of the Prophetess
By now, Karia should be used to finding out everything she thought she knew was wrong. Girls can’t do magic? Wrong. Faeries aren’t real? Wrong. No such thing as redbears? Wrong again. But there are more surprises in store for her.
And nothing could have prepared her for what is being withheld from her.
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Book 4: The Dwarf’s Legacy
Destroying magic never seemed easy. But is it even possible? And who can Karia trust? The man who no longer loves her? The woman who does? The girl who keeps secrets? The old man who says he’s her grandfather? The sorcerer?
The future uncertain, Karia decides to take the best next step.
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Book 5: The White-Silver House
Reaching the halfway point in her quest is not exactly satisfying to Karia. It’s not simply a matter of convincing the rest of the First Ones to go along with her plan – as if any part of that is going to be simple. It’s also a question of how final the ending is for Karia personally. Must she die? Is there any other way to remove magic from the world? Or perhaps to remove its malignancy?
Perhaps the answer lies in the strange properties of white silver.
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Tentative publication date: Summer 2016
Nascent Payne Mysteries

The sort-of Murder of Fiona Galloway
Nascent Payne — sometime bounty hunter, smuggler and currently private investigator — sets out to find who killed dear sweet Fiona. Among the suspects are her boss at the saloon, her boyfriend, the smitten ranchhand and even her self-proclaimed “bestest” friend. He makes the collar alright … and finds out Fiona is not completely dead.
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The Man with Two Eyes
Payne isn’t exactly happy to hear from Col. Milton “More Guts” Popov. But because of Fiona’s thoughts leaking into his head, he ends up taking on the case of finding the colonel’s missing daughter. And his best clue is not exactly helping narrow things down.
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The No-Good Book
By now, Payne knows he is playing cat-and-mouse with a vicious serial killer. A big-time mobster and a hard-nosed cop aren’t exactly making things easier. And to top it all off, his mechanic’s old friend, the Wallaby, is somehow caught up in all of this. Perhaps the answer lies in the strange book, The Assassin in Apartment 13G. Tentative publication date: Fall 2015
Devotionals
The Focus of Prayer
We often overlook three important facets of prayer. In this 30-day devotional, we go through those in depth, and then see how they harmonize in a balanced prayer life.
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