The Paraval Series
A paranormal Women’s Fantasy and a celebration of midlife
Elise Clair has just sent her youngest off to college and is looking forward to returning to her career and fixing her broken marriage. But the fates have other plans in store for her. After her husband cheats on her and derails her
career plans, she’s a little disappointed in life. Maybe even a little angry. When she starts accidentally changing dental mirrors into machetes at work, she knows it’s time for a little getaway.
What she ends up doing is packing up and moving across the country to start the next chapter of her life, after receiving a mysterious job offer in Washington state that sounds too good to pass up. She has a second chance to create
a new life for herself and do what she wants for a change.
She’s expecting a fairy tale alpine village and lots of skiing.
What she gets is a town crawling with witches and rebel vampires.
And a gorgeous general and his minotaur partner.
Oh, and a gate that leads to hell.
She’ll need to resurrect her long-forgotten magic to discover how the town’s secrets may just unlock her own family secrets. Act 2 of her life may turn out to be even better than the first.
If she can survive it.
Elise’s fabulous midlife adventure continues as she tries to balance her new love life with her growing responsibilities as warden of a magical town teetering over the gate to hell.
Elise and Theo, the fire-wielding general of Black Lake Falls, are finally free to bask in their previously forbidden love. But new work duties start to strain their budding romance after Ronath, the minotaur gatekeeper, wakes up from his two-week coma.
And what’s worse, he’s come back… well, different. Maybe even a tad possessed.
When Ronath escapes from the hospital in a psychotic state, he leaves behind a strange symbol as the only clue to his disappearance.
Elise and Theo are pulled in opposite directions as they search for the lost gatekeeper and try to decode the enigmatic symbol.
After a series of bizarre break-ins and mysterious deaths, Elise uncovers someone’s frantic search for a lost object that has ties to an old alchemy secret society and to her own father.
When Elise realizes the same object may hold the key to her own quest, she and Theo launch into a race to snag it first.
But she’ll need to level up her own magic if she’s going to stand any chance of stopping this dangerous force from unleashing hell on her beloved town.
What could be worse than a trip to hell? Try going to hell with your new love AND his old flame. The sparks are going to fly.
Inferium.
A cold, eternally dark underworld, teeming with shadow demons whose mere touch can kill.
Not exactly anyone’s dream vacation spot. But it’s precisely where Elise finds herself planning her next trip with Theo after the discovery of an ancient grimoire.
Against crazy odds, they embark on a mission to reseal the gate separating their magical town from the dangerous underworld, and to rescue an imprisoned friend. Accompanied by elite vampires Nina and Jerome, their quest involves realigning the magic of Elise’s amulet with the dark magic of Inferium.
But their mission—as well as their relationship—is threatened when their guide turns out to be Theo’s old flame.
And surprise, surprise, she’s more interested in rekindling the old sparks with him from way back when.
It will be a race against time before Inferium’s new moon arrives and plunges them into pitch darkness, rendering their mission all but impossible. But the demons in the dark may be the least of their concerns as the gang confronts the other horrors of Inferium. The ones that include not only the shadows of their past, but also the maddening shadows within their own minds—and these may just have the power to trap them in the underworld forever.
For Elise and Theo, it will be the ultimate test of their love as they face death, passion, and the tangled strands of past regrets.
With breathtaking twists and turns, Midlife Shadows is a thrilling story of love, loyalty, magic, and the surprising power of the mind.