The Unwicked Witch
Currently on submission
Two strong, morally-grey women recount their century-separated stories until they team up to bring FINN, a genderfluid ghost — CHLOÉ’s true love and ALICE’s only family — back to life.
Alice is horrified that magic is burning her from the inside out. But it took six hundred years for her to become this powerful. So, instead of letting her excess magic go, Alice hoards it. But magic stored outside the body is dangerous and unpredictable. Alice is devastated when it kills her only family, Finn.
112 years later, Finn — now a ghost — haunts Chloé’s family home and becomes increasingly appalled with her childhood. In a bid to offer guidance, Finn’s ghostly vapour sifts through eleven-year-old Chloé’s spine to settle inside her chest. For ten years, Finn guides whip-smart Chloé through her unsupervised adolescence, homelessness, and finally onto nursing college, all while trying to curb her criminal inclinations.
Nevertheless, twenty-one-year-old Chloé uses her part-time job at Alice’s general store to sell thrift items as precious antiques. All Chloé wants is to make enough money for her and her brother to live in a real home rather than the camper they share. Each swindle brings them closer.
Chloé collides with Alice’s magic stored beneath the general store and is whisked to 1908. Drawn to the beautiful clerk on duty, Chloé’s joyous to realize it’s Finn, still alive.
Finn and Chloé fall in love. But while they’re desperate to be together, they can’t stay alive and healthy in one another’s timelines.
Chloé’s ecstatic to discover that Finn, if not killed, could live forever. Alice is astonished her stored magic catalyzes time travel. All Alice wants is a family, so Chloé persuades her to travel back and reverse Finn’s death. But remaining alive will remove Finn’s ghostly fingerprints from Chloé’s life choices, which will utterly change her as a person.
While Alice must risk plunging herself into volatile time-travel magic, Chloé gambles her past, her personality, and therefore her future to bring her true love to life.
The Unwicked Witch explores the themes of benevolence overcoming greed, life choices affecting self-esteem, and love conquering all.
Read the first two pages of THE UNWICKED WITCH!
This adult romantic fantasy with forays into Irish and Canadian history, is set in North Vancouver alongside the same fantasy world as CROWS OF TRUIMPH and ÉTAÍN’S DAUGHTER.
THE UNWICKED WITCH, was a quarterfinalist in Pulp Literature Press’s First Page Match. Chapter Six, adapted into a short historical fiction called North Vancouver, won third place in Vancouver’s 27th Annual North Shore Writing Competition. My two published short stories, Ghost Story and Gender Neutral, along with the history of my hometown of North Vancouver, inspired the events and characters.
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Étaín’s Daughter
Currently Drafting
Nineteen-year-old Bryar wants nothing more than to graduate from Esplanade Ballet‘s aspirant program with an invitation to the Company. But discovering her inherited immortality, Bryar has a limited number of years before her agelessness becomes obvious, and if not adequately concealed, Ireland’s gods will kill her.
Staying undercover in the modern world costs a fortune and Bryar needs money lickity-split. A mentor advises her to divorce rich men.
But when ongoing evenings of debaucherous dating weakens her dance performance, Bryar must choose between accumulating enough money to keep safe from prying eyes. Or have enough belief in her own immortality plan to gamble on true love and a ballet career.
This contemporary fantasy with romantic elements is set in North Vancouver alongside the same fantasy world as CROWS OF TRUIMPH and THE UNWICKED WITCH. The Least of Myself, a short story published with Pulp Literature Press, is a scene in this novel.
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Crows of Triumph
Currently needs rewriting.
Eighteen-year-old Olivia must prove she’s magical enough to claim her immortal life, and join the fight against human defilement of the environment — at the Tuatha Dé Danann’s behest. Or die. But quickening this magic requires embracing their risqué mores: gender is irrelevant, monogamy inconceivable, and romantic partnerships are group affairs.
This contemporary fantasy with romantic elements is set in North Vancouver alongside the same fantasy world as ÉTAÍN’S DAUGHTER and THE UNWICKED WITCH. Writing CROWS OF TRIUMPH was instructive in developing my craft and instrumental in building my unique fantasy world. I’m excited to rewrite this story and share it with the world.
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