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Personal Demons makes the CIBA Semi-Finalist List

Personal Demons, the second book in my Rifter series staring demon-possessed-practitioner Mira Fuentes and Paranatural Task Force Agent Ty Williams, has made it to the semi-finalist stage of the Chanticleer International Book Award's Paranatural category for outstanding works of supernatural fiction!

There's one more round of judging to determine the finalists before the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners are announced on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony.
See all the books that are still in the running HERE.

CIBA Finalist Announcement: Of Mettle & Magic: makes the cut

Of Mettle & Magic, Book 5 in the Magicsmith series, has been named as a finalist in the Chanticleer International Book Award's OZMA Award for outstanding works in fantasy fiction!

The 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners will be announced at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 20th, 2024.
Check out the full list of finalists HERE.

New Release: Personal Demons

Protecting her secret and hunting demons is a matter of survival for possessed-practitioner Mira Fuentes. She's spent years learning to work with the snarky demon housed in her body, and it hasn't always gone smoothly. Nor has her recent partnership with an agent of the Paranatural Task Force. Ty Williams—uncomfortably-attractive and overly-protective—may never fully accept that his partner has a literal inner demon.

But work-life-demon balance is the least of Mira's problems when a figure from her past drags her back to the hometown she's avoided for nearly a decade to investigate a string of potentially-magical disappearances. Someone or something is snatching teens from the local high school.

Emotionally off-balance in a city full of old ghosts and new dangers, Mira will have to confront her past to discover what is hunting the innocent.
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Dark, quirky, urban fantasy heaped with magic, mystery, and all the feels. Mira Fuentes shares her body with an irreverent incorporeal being (colloquially known as a demon). Together, they hunt down magical troublemakers that the human world is ill equipped to deal with, but a decade of hiding who she is in a world that would just as soon see her dead has left her with a mountain of insecurities—especially where interpersonal relationships are concerned.
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