Brother's Keep

Elected as the Songstress, Aria takes her place on the sacred platform to sing before every dawn. As long as she does so, peace and abundant life belong to her people. One morning, everything goes wrong and she loses her ability to make music when Aria is distracted by a strange wind, an eerie howl and a shape, almost like that of a man, appears. The dreaded Il-Bora, a magnificent winged creature, prophesied by Aria's people as the one who brings death, watches the singer with intent. He is set to doom her by orders from his master, the evil serpent, yet her voice gives him pause. More than her voice. In fact, he is strangely drawn to the girl and finds, for the first time, unable to do his master's bidding. The Il-Bora is severely punished and tragedy strikes Aria's village, yet somehow the two survive. The greatest calamity might be that she has come to adore the cause of her blunder, the winged man who's stolen more than her voice, her heart too. And the Il-Bora? He's beginning to comprehend a strange, new warmth. Love.

Blind since childhood, Syrena longs for the seeing world. When she finds it, the experience is most unexpected, for her eyes and heart take her deep into the blue when a merman, the last of his kind, saves her from drowning. Although she can't remember, it isn't the first time. Dagon rescued Syrena once before. She was a child then, and he has watched her at the shore ever since. He loves her, yet his evil imposter parents have forbidden contact with Syrena. Desire for his soul mate has Dagon troubled and he needs to find a way for them to be together without endangering her. With Syrena's passion growing for Dagon, along with the gift to see, she wonders if she can make a choice that would mean walking away from her beloved sisters and life on land, also remain in hiding from Dagon's parents who are copious in casting curses. How strong is love? More than the tug of the oceans?

The Tree Lord is a soul snatcher, but Arekel is one soul he hadn't anticipated. Arekel becomes the chosen of her world to stop the Tree Lord menace from expanding his domain of Deadwood. Embarking on the fretful task, the young maiden learns that she alone holds the key to destroying the Tree Lord's malevolent heart. There's just one other problem. She's fallen in love with him.

His heart is cold and only she can warm it, yet doing so would annihilate the last of her kind.A beautiful slave named Sasha holds the hidden power to destroy Master Kilian once and for all, along with his reign of terror. Instead, she openly sacrifices herself, silencing her own authority, deep within his arctic fortress. The question is, why? Now, among the confusion, evil prevails.

Four brothers have fallen to darkness, each cursed for all time. Possessed with unique powers, they lure, charm, and sometimes unleash a fury to destroy. Four maidens venture out, each vulnerable and alone. Risking everything, they set out in search for answers to end the evil sourced from the brothers. The quests challenge the lives and minds of the maidens as they question motive. Are they still trying to save their people from harm, or futilely redeem heartless beings for the sake of love? Because somehow while daring, their hearts are stolen in what could be the quickest path to destruction, the greatest betrayal of all. The Brother's Keep is a compilation of four allegorical fantasy-romance novellas written from a Biblical worldview. Each novella focuses on one particular brother and one maiden in a specific domain. Along the way, meet Lily of the Valley, Bright & Morning Star, Promise the King, and The Messenger, characters vital to these young women who find themselves lost in the keeps of alluring yet unscrupulous brothers. This volume includes: Novella 1 ~ Wind's Aria. Elected as the Songstress, Aria takes her place on the sacred platform to sing before every dawn. As long as she does so, peace and abundant life belong to her people. One morning, amidst a strange wind that brings with it a curse in its eerie howl, Aria loses her ability to make music. But the encroaching death that transpires isn't her biggest tragedy. It's that she adores the cause of her blunder, for he's a magnificent winged creature who's stolen more than her voice. Novella 2 ~ Sea God's Siren: An accident left Syrena blind and only the sea god Dagon can bring her healing. But the cost of abiding in his aquatic prison in exchange for sight proves more than she bargained for. Novella 3 ~ Tree Lord's Oracle: Arekel becomes the chosen of her world to stop the Tree Lord menace from expanding his domain of Deadwood. Embarking on the fretful task, the young maiden learns that she alone holds the key to destroying the Tree Lord's malevolent heart. There's just one other problem. She's fallen in love with him. Novella 4 ~ Ice Dancer's Hold: A beautiful slave named Sasha holds the hidden power to destroy Master Kilian once and for all, along with his reign of terror. Instead, she openly sacrifices herself, silencing her own authority, deep within his arctic fortress. The question is, why? Now, among the confusion, evil prevails.