The World of Master of Crows
Welcome to a world of heretic wizards, corrupt gods, demon kings, and treasured orange groves, where the sorcerer, Silhara of Neith and the ex-slave Martise of Asher live out their lives amidst the magic of an ancient land.
Master of Crows
Book 1
What would you do to win your freedom? This is the question that sets bondwoman, Martise of Asher, on a dangerous path. In exchange for her freedom, she bargains with her masters, the mage-priests of Conclave, to spy on the renegade sorcerer, Silhara of Neith. The priests want Martise to expose the sorcerer’s treachery and turn him over to Conclave justice. A risky endeavor, but one she accepts without hesitation–until she falls in love with her intended target.
Silhara of Neith, Master of Crows, is a desperate man. The god called Corruption invades his mind, seducing him with promises of limitless power if he will help it gain dominion over the world. Silhara struggles against Corruption’s influence and searches for ways to destroy the god. When Conclave sends Martise as an apprentice to help him, he knows she’s a spy. Now he fights a war on two fronts–against the god who would possess him and the apprentice who would betray him.
Mage and spy search together for a ritual that will annihilate Corruption, but in doing so, they discover secrets about each other that may damn them both. Silhara must decide if his fate, and the fate of nations, is worth the soul of the woman he has come to love, and Martise must choose continued enslavement or freedom at the cost of a man’s life. And love.
The Brush of Black Wings
Novella sequel to Master of Crows
During a foray into the woods of Neith, Martise stumbles upon a ruined temple and reawakens not only a power she thought lost, but also something far more malevolent. An ancient darkness, imprisoned in an eternal cage, sees a chance at freedom in a woman once held in bondage. Desperate to save her, the Master of Crows will break the barriers of time and worlds to challenge an entity born of forgotten magic and the remnants of souls–a demon king who once led hordes of the damned across the face of the world. The destroyer of gods will battle the destroyer of men to reclaim his wife and discover a truth the keepers of history once conspired to conceal.
A tale of revelation and redemption.
The Light Within
A 3,700 short story
In THE LIGHT WITHIN, Silhara of Neith, now known as “the god-smiter,” travels as the guest of honor to the winter festival of his father’s people.
The crow mage who destroyed one god must ignite sacred fires in honor of another. Yet the winter festival only reminds Silhara that the brightest light within him isn’t the fire of a deity but the devotion of one woman.
A tale of hope and celebration.
Lover of Thorns and Holy Gods
A trio of short stories
A MATTER OF TRUST (5,336 words) – A cultural divide is resolved in the most delightful way between Brishen and Ildiko Khaskem. Takes place after RADIANCE and before EIDOLON.
A trilogy of short stories from the worlds of Master of Crows, Entreat Me, and Radiance.
STRONG BLOOD (3,504 words) – Ballard de Sauveterre from ENTREAT ME crosses time to share a drink with Silhara of Neith from MASTER OF CROWS and discovers a connection that spans generations.
CROW AWAKENED (2,975 words) – A short follow-up to THE BRUSH OF BLACK WINGS in which a terrified Silhara finally learns why his beloved wife Martise is fading before his eyes.
The Lightning God’s Wife
CROW AWAKENED (2,975 words) – A short follow-up to THE BRUSH OF BLACK WINGS in which a terrified Silhara finally learns why his beloved wife Martise is fading before his eyes.
Love Is…
The Lightning God’s Wife — Love is…hope and sacrifice. While watching an approaching thunderstorm, the slave woman Martise tells her lover–a renegade sorcerer known as the Master of Crows–the story of a human woman who became wife to the lightning god and brought rain to a dying world.