Amara Badmus has it all — fame, beauty, and success as one of Tokyo’s rising fashion models. But behind the flashing cameras and perfect photos, she’s just tired — tired of pretending, tired of smiling for the world, and tired of being seen by everyone except herself. Then she meets Ren Watan...

Miko’s life is one of quiet ritual: tending the shrine, caring for her sick mother, and keeping an old talisman in place. But when the talisman falls and whispers from her mother grow weaker within a darkened shed, the boundaries of duty and obsession begin to crumble… and some impurities cannot ...

This is a bit of information about the characters in my book series, Smoke! Each "chapter" references a different character, and information will be updated as more is revealed.

Majutsushi—a walled-off city off of the coast of Tokyo and a prison for magic users. Home to six clans fighting for control of the city, Ryugi Igarashi is the prime mage for the Inazuma—a gang specializing in electricity. Things get complicated when a mage from the Hyoga clan defects and asks for...

We'll follow the Insurrection's path towards a bright(!?) tomorrow, but for now we're only looking at a former military leader's life. Previously a preeminent leader of The Insurrection, Gideon has to deal with daily life in his hometown while waiting for the spoils of the revolution to trickl...

Mi-Nya lives in a small village with Hiro, the spirit who lives in her diadem. Today, she's trying to figure out how to confess to her crush. Hiro offers to help her, too. There's just one problem. . . He's the crush!

[ON HIATUS FOR SALLOWEEN] "I, King Franciscus Adonis Lucifer III, am being cut down by some idiot peasant who could barely hold a sword a month ago. In some fanciful stroke of luck, this dunce–with not a single magical bone in his body–has gained the power to rival that of a Demon King." Whe...

Marina's job should be simple: travel through the Thornwood with Gromfang, a twelve-foot monster, to deliver a message. The village elder gave her one instruction—keep the magical talisman on Gromfang's forehead, or he'll revert to his man-eating true form. Easy enough, right?