On a summer day atop the Messippi pyramid of Saint’s Summit, an original man known to some as Naysin and many more as the Red Wraith fulfilled a vision by summoning four lesser shamans to meet him in one moon’s time. When they arrived, he froze them in midstride and peered into their memories. The vision hadn’t specified why he needed the other shamans there, but Naysin knew that, if he were to remake the world before he died, he had to find the answers hidden in the shamans’ pasts. This is what he saw. Please This story doesn’t fully resolve on its own—it’s meant as a lead-in to The Red Wraith. An excerpt from The Ascenders won an Honorable Mention from the Writers of the Future Contest in 2015. The current version was published on April 23, 2018.

A fate-reading dancer struggles to make her most important vision come true; four outcast shamans are summoned to a green pyramid. Before Saint’s Summit contains two The Battle Dancer and The Ascenders. An earlier version of each won an honorable mention from the Writers of the Future contest. Please Neither novella fully resolves on its own—they're meant as lead-ins to The Red Wraith.

Everyone in Dzune had always assumed Tay could read fates, that her milky eyes let her see what others couldn't. Villagers brought gifts in exchange for her wisdom and treated it as the ironclad word of the Sun Father. There was only one problem: Tay couldn't actually see the future. Not at all initially, and only a little after her awakening. She'd had a true vision once, though, an image of her—armed and angry—safeguarding a strange man on a green hill. And now that man had come to Dzune. The Battle Dancer won an Honorable Mention from the Writers of the Future Contest in 2014. Please Note: This novella doesn’t fully resolve on its own—it’s meant as a lead-in to The Red Wraith.

As magic awakens in Early America, Naysin, a child of the Lepane nation, manifests talents that cause him to defile his tribe’s harvest ceremony. His punishment is exile. In the years that follow, Naysin’s spirit fathers keep goading him into misusing his abilities. On the island of Bimshire, he inspires a slave rebellion before abandoning it; near his former home, he marches European settlers to their deaths; and in the forests of Edgeland, he ends a battle by massacring both sides. Such acts cause much of the New World to see him as the Red Wraith, an indigenous monster who delights in butchering white innocents. The infamy is well-earned, but that’s not who he wants to be. And when he encounters a group of fellow magic-users, Naysin realizes how he can set everything right.

Isaura’s son has been kidnapped. Worse, his kidnappers are taking him to Huancavelica, a Peruvian mercury mine so dangerous it’s known as the “Mine of Death.” Her only ally is Amadi, a runaway slave haunted by guilt he refuses to explain. Her only choice is to beat the kidnappers to Huancavelica and lay a trap … assuming she can survive the mine herself. The Black Resurrection is a standalone sequel to The Red Wraith, a historical fantasy set in Early America. The Ascenders, one of two prequels to The Red Wraith, includes Isaura and Amadi’s backstories.

Naysin's power is waning. The world knows him as the Red Wraith, an infamous shaman capable of eradicating plagues and ruining armies. But he spent the bulk of his magic atop the earthen pyramid of Saint's Summit. Now his mother is missing, and the Amber Revenant—another sorcerer with outsized potency—has hijacked the weather and delayed the spring. Naysin can't stand against the Revenant directly or find his mother on his own. His allies don't always inspire confidence either: one of them is a teenage orphan; another is a cantankerous seagull. They have their talents, though. And Naysin still has his—for now. If he acts quickly, their combined strength might be enough. If he doesn't … Then the Revenant will supplant the Wraith. And his mother will never escape her fate.