The Wishing Blade Universe

The Wishing Blade Series

A heinous plot is unveiled when magic is stolen.

But the gods have been expecting this day.
To stop the looming threat, they choose two young mages to save the kingdom.
Two mortals with a chance to become something more.

If only they hadn’t chosen a mage who doesn’t like magic.

Will she rise up to their challenge?

Read Magic’s Stealing to embark on the beginning of an adventure . . .

Magic’s Stealing

(The Wishing Blade #1)

A heinous plot is unveiled when magic is stolen.

Toranih would rather have a sword in her hand than use her powers to heal or throw fireballs. But when the kingdom’s magic is stolen, she’s one of the few whose powers remain.

With the looming threat of an army of shadows who are impervious to mortal weapons, she must either adopt her neglected responsibilities as a mage or watch her home perish.

The Shadow War

(The Wishing Blade #2)

Though a shadow is as good as a ghost, with no free will to speak of, they may still be saved…

With the knowledge that the shadows are innocent townsfolk forced to do a warlord’s bidding, Daernan must choose between saving the shadows or saving those who have not yet turned.

Magebane

(The Wishing Blade #3)

Will magebane save the world? Or destroy it?

When a goddess grants Shevanlagiy a vision of a deadly substance—magebane—being shipped across the kingdom, Shevanlagiy realizes her carefully laid plans to protect Daernan are falling apart faster than she can rework them.

And read a short prequel:

A Path of Swords and Feathers

(A Wishing Blade Universe Short Story)

Though Nihestan longs to see his family, his duty to his goddess leads him to the far reaches of the kingdom. But once he arrives, she refuses to answer his summons.

Can he earn back her favor without sacrificing what he holds dear?

Stone and String Series

A spell to infuriate the goddess of the dead…

Everyone is born with two strings of magic.
One strand is life, and the other is death.

Very few can manipulate them.

Among the Cantingen Islanders, children are tested for this ability during their first rites of magic, a ceremony which determines what magic they have and their future as a mage. But when Edyli’s little sister, Akymi, dies in an accident before those rites can occur, Edyli does the unthinkable. She uses magic to return Akymi to the living. As a result, she finds herself in a land of weblike strings… the afterlife.

Edyli refuses to give up seeing her sister’s first rites. With the help of a mysterious immortal and sheer determination, she has every intention of seeing her sister once more, even if it means incurring the wrath of Madia, the goddess of the dead.

Read Stone and String to escape the strings of life and death . . .

Stone and String

(Stone and String #1)

A spell to infuriate the goddess of the dead…

Everyone is born with two strings of magic. One strand is life, and the other is death.

But when Edyli’s little sister dies in an accident before her first rites of magic can occur, Edyli uses magic to return her sister to the living. As a result, she finds herself in a land of weblike strings… the afterlife. Still, she is determined not to let that stop her from seeing her sister once more.

Wind and Words

(Stone and String #2)

Life magic is not meant to be alone.

After Edyli is banished from her home for spurning a goddess, she is surprised to discover a child without life magic deep in the jungle. If she can recover the child’s life magic, she might earn back the goddess’s favor. Fail, and she will sink into insanity.

Legends of Cirena Series

200 years before the events of The Wishing Blade and Stone and String, explore the lives of various people across Cirena in this series of shorts and novellas:

A wind mage living in a city that hates mages…

A shapeshifting thief who must use her wit when she accidentally runs into a gryphon…

A “dragon” whose only magic is his ability to scry, but he must use that magic to help a young boy rescue his family from slavers…

Read The Wind Mage of Maijev to begin your journey into a time of magic and immortals . . .