Elemental Truth (out December 13th)
It’s my first trilogy! One romance – and substantial plot – playing out over three books. I’m so excited to share Thessaly and Vitus’s stories with you – along with everyone else in these novels.
This trilogy is about finding the difference between what you’re told to want and what you actually desire. It’s full of siblings making different choices about how to love and support their brother or sister (or in one case, not.) It’s about the patterns that families make and uphold – some much better for everyone than others. And it’s about falling in love, finding a way through the difficult times together, and coming out into the sun with hope for the future. And it’s about how the spirit of invention and experimentation brings both great delights – and new threats.
Oh, and it’s also full of Council politics, six deaths, and a wedding.
This trilogy dives into the Victorian era of Albion, giving us a chance to see characters who appear in later books (Cyrus Smythe-Clive, Niobe Hall, Alexander Landry, and several others), much earlier in their lives. Our happily ever after comes in book 3. There are many mysteries along the way, and Thessaly and Vitus solve many of them, but not every last detail is known to them.
Enchanted Net, book 1, will be out on September 20th, 2024.
In March 1889 (the opening of Enchanted Net), Thessaly is betrothed to Childeric Fortier, golden son of his generation. It’s everything she was born and raised for, joining her magic with an ancient line for everyone’s benefit.
It’s not like that. And when Thessaly meets someone she’d love to talk with more – about her illusion magic, his talisman crafting, and their shared sense of art and beauty – it becomes even more complicated.
When Thessaly’s work is shaken to its core, she doesn’t know where to turn or who to rely on for support. And that’s where things start to become truly complex.
In Silent Circuit (out on November 15th, 2024), Thessaly is trapped in a situation she does not want, and she’s not sure how to change her situation. Vitus, for his part, wants desperately to help, but he doesn’t have the sort of power or resources that might shift things. (He also needs to establish himself as a talisman maker, without alienating all of his potential long-term clients.)
When Thessaly’s situation changes again, in a way absolutely no one expected, it gives them new hope and options, but no real answers.
The final book, Elemental Truth, will be out on December 13th, 2024. Thessaly and Vitus are trying to solve a central mystery, the question that might make everything make sense. At the same time, the pressures from Thessaly’s parents and the rest of the world are piling up, more and more challenging to deal with.
And coming next May, Grown Wise, Ursula Fortier’s romance, will pick up a few threads of this story nearly 60 years later, in 1947. (Specifically, the parts that Thessaly and Vitus had no way to know or find out.)
