Up the Ante and Raise the Stakes Drae Hallow, it's going down…I've finally found a place to call home. Rule 9 Academy and a group of friends I call family have survived the first semester, saved our valley, and passed all our classes…mostly.Things are definitely looking up…until they're not.As the bed count starts to rise at the local infirmary, everyone takes notice. When the residents of Bitterroot and Drae Council realize what the patients are all lacking…panic sets in.I mean, who let the Vampires out? Those blood-suckers are real, and they're drinking the joggers. Only there were no vampires in Drae Hallow until now. Somebody let them in.There's clues to uncover and cold trails to follow before we uncover the truth and discover our real mission…is also a rescue mission.It will take every bit of Skill and Magic we've learned, and some we haven't, to protect the inside of Shephard's Mountain from what's coming and save those we thought were lost to us.We'll have to find out quick who can be trusted, and who wants to just see us die…before it's too late. Join Sadie Cross and her friends as they battle old foes, joined by new friends, in a place that is out of this world, literally…Careful, you'll need to finish this journey in Wyndoor, where nothing is normal and everything wants to have you for lunch.

Sometimes the line between Good and Evil is blurred... Elle has a decision to make to protect the inhabitants of Hat Creek... Stand by the man who has put his life on the line to protect them from the boogey man more than once? Or let the weight of the evidence stand...and hunt down the monster in disguise living a lie in their midst? Elle has a decision to make. The weight of which will allow only one side to remain standing in the end...

Searching for Refuge from the demons of her past, former FBI agent Elle Adams escaped deep into the Little Hat Creek Preserve to start over.Transforming a derelict hunting camp into a sanctuary for battered women may be just the redemption she needs.But her newfound peace is shattered when a desperate and pregnant young woman arrives on her doorstep seeking sanctuary for herself and her unborn child.She didn't come alone...A criminal mastermind and his ruthless crew of mercenaries have followed, intent on hunting them down.An unforgiving killer, he will stop at nothing to exact revenge and reclaim what's his.The stakes are escalating as Elle, along with her canine partner Mia, forge a desperate alliance with a group of local law enforcement and those who claim the preserve as their own. Together they will be forced to confront their deepest fears and navigate the unyielding determination of a madman to survive what's coming and bring...

Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 was a dangerous town... Under the suspicion of the greedy and affluent citizens that ran it, Gallows hill had no shortage of visitors that year… Hang the Witches… Along with the rest of their clan, Elspeth Walsh's family had fled Wales in the years before to escape the persecution by the hundreds of the guilty and innocent alike. The devil's spawn… In the wilderness of a newly settled America her family flourished, birthing a way of life absent of the persecution and mass hysteria moving through Europe and their homeland. In the untamed forests and valley's surrounding Salem they embraced their heritage and let their inner monster out to play. Hunt them down, make them confess… For Elspeth Walsh and her family lay no claim to witchcraft. What they are is far more deadly. Theirs is a secret centuries old and it must be protected at any cost.Bronze scales and Golden wings… In their human skins they've lived in peace beside the human race for a millennia. But that's all about to change beneath the harsh scrutiny and growing fears of the wealthy to claim a twisted sense of justice. Before its too late, Elspeth and those she loves, will need to escape again…or risk joining the condemned on Gallows Hill. Hang the Dragons… Dragon's Wish is a standalone Prequel to the Rule 9 Series, Fire Born Dragon Book I, and Fire Bound Dragon Book II…live on Amazon. Step back 300 years with Elspeth and her family to learn how her story ends…and Sadie Cross's begins.

In the sinister shadows of the Little Hat Creek Preserve, the clock has started...Elle came to reimagine the little abandoned camp she bought there into a source of solace and redemption for the wronged. But in one short minute, her refuge becomes a madman's playing field, praying on the innocent, turning their lives into a macabre display for the twisted amusement of a sadistic killer.With each life gone, a chilling calling card is left behind.It's all for Elle, challenging her to decipher the cryptic clues before time runs out and the grand finale is realized.Along with the extraordinary instincts of her loyal canine partner, Mia, she's in a race to thwart a deadly madman at his own game.The stakes are mounting in a heart-pounding race to the end, where survival may be measured in seconds.For Elle and the residents of the Hat Creek Preserve, time is short; let the COUNTDOWN begin...

A Dance of Shadows, a Symphony of Bones...and a Chilling Revelation Elle Adams left her FBI badge behind when she moved to Veil falls with her canine partner and cadaver dog, Mia. Searching for redemption in the isolated, run-down hunting camp she bought deep in the Little Hat Preserve, she's miles away from the public and the pain. She intends to keep it that way. Only the forgotten bones of the victims have other ideas... When the first set of remains come to the surface along the Hat River, and a killer decides to make their recovery personal; she'll be faced with a choice. To protect her newfound safe haven and the people who live there, she'll need to do some hunting of her own... Sometimes the victim becomes the Killer and the lines between Justice and Murder are blurred... In an Echo of Silence, Some Secrets are Forever...

I ran up Shephard's Mountain to escape the Monsters that were chasing me......and the Demons that were haunting my memories.Instead, I fell into a world where Magic is the New Black and the Challenges I face have nothing to do with curling irons and study groups.Drae Hallow is the home of Rule 9 Academy where nobody is normal and we're all a little bit of strange.They've invited me to attend their School for Magicals. Apparently, there's something inside of me and it wants to come out to play. But I need to learn to control it before it controls me.I'm game...After all, I might be my Momma's trouble; but I've always been my Daddy's stubborn.I'll need every bit of it too, because something else roams the woods after dark, and it doesn't have anything to do with Shifting 101.Together, with the help of others just like me, we'll have to uncover the lies before it's too late.  The Magical world depends on us to find out the truth...or its Lights Out, Dark Ages and Witch Hunts all over again.If I'm not careful, my first semester might just be my last. Fire Born Dragon will resonate with fans of BR Kingsolver and G.K. DeRosa...