The Beaumont sisters are finally ready to be married. As their father's health fails, London suitors swarm the eldest girl, heiress by tradition to the Beaumont fortune. Alice Beaumont, the solitary, rebellious younger sister, inherits only the family estate. But, Nicolas Beaumont has made some final changes to his will. He has secretly traded one girl's birthright for the other's. But, one suitor knows just who the right bride is. Jonas Creed is a brooding investigator, the only man to uncover the scheme of the wealthy widower. But, his pursuit of Alice is not for her pending fortune. A...

Kai and her companions have survived the perils of the post-nuclear war ruins beyond their homes, and continue to the closest colony after leaving Rebel Bay. Armed with new information about their enemy, Kai and her friends arrive at a small agricultural community with its own secrets. Fort Turret is an old military compound, its citizens already oppressed by periodic raids and abductions. Kai, Silas and Shendorah must convince the leader and his people to rise against the rogue criminals they have come to call 'drones'. Determined to show Fort Turret that the drones can be defeated, Kai's...

The Ruined Grove is a collection of stories that explores human isolation and displacement accented by the backdrop of magic and mystery. The characters are often cynical and disenchanted while harboring deeply suppressed longings. They are guided by strange events and circumstances that ultimately transform their world-views. Young, irreverent newlyweds visit a hotel with a unique amenity. Two sisters become trapped between memory and reality when stranded on a mysterious back road. A jaded bank employee becomes obsessed with a rare, undiscovered bill, and a young girl with a special gift...

Many years after a nuclear war has ravaged the nation, small colonies have survived fall-out. What's left of the population thrives on trade, overstock and scrap, forming their own communities, rituals and traditions. There is a sense of peace after a long and tragic era. But, a threat has come to the quiet hillsides. A government experiment gone wrong has begun to show its face in the form of senseless attacks and kidnappings. Kai is the daughter of the chief of Red Sky, a prominent trade colony. When rumors reach him that she may be a target, she is forced to set out on her own across the...