Elm Stone Saga

Chosen is an urban fantasy novel and is book one in The Elm Stone Saga. The White Elm council has governed the magical societies of the world for centuries, keeping the peace, leading the way of the light, but when popular and powerful Lisandro announces his intention to leave the council, a line is, drawn in the sand. The Elm Stone, a ring holding the build-up of power from years of the council's members, gets taken by its keeper, Peter, to Lisandro?s new group of malicious magic users. Its fate lies in his hands. Sometimes we choose our way. Other times it is, chosen for us. Young Irish sorceress, Aristea Byrne jumps at the opportunity to compete for a coveted position as an apprentice to the White Elm and quickly finds her powers blossoming. Under the tutelage of the council at their Academy, she awakens skills she never knew she had. As she finds herself drawn more into the council’s unfamiliar world, and in particular into the web of mystery surrounding council rebel Renatus, she starts to wonder how much is still within her control and how much has been, chosen for her...

Scarred is an urban fantasy novel and is book two in The Elm Stone Saga. Sometimes, we survive, unscathed, Sometimes, we are left, scarred. Following an unforeseen attack, the White Elm council is depleted but even more determined to find and prosecute their former member, Lisandro, and his followers. Suggestions of a spy within the council ranks, however, cast shadows of doubt and suspicion, and trust is suddenly a commodity no one wants to afford. Events that can only be, considered fateful have thrown Aristea and her new ally Renatus into the middle of this political turmoil, bringing into question their loyalties, her faith in him and in her own impulsive choices. Despite a shared past it is quickly apparent that some scars run deeper, than others and Aristea is, running out of time to decide, where to place her trust. Perhaps being, chosen was just the beginning...

Sometimes we evade the darkness. Other times it comes to us unbidden. In the wake of a direct political strike, the battered White Elm is left virtually powerless to act against their former brother Lisandro, the man now armed with their most formidable weapon, the Elm Stone. Matters are complicated by a history of resentment surrounding the council's elitist stance on 'wild' forms of magic, and compromises must be made in order to move forward. Conflicted by the truth of their pasts but bound together by recent events, Aristea and Renatus commit themselves to understanding their unruly connection and its roots in a time long before theirs. But when Aristea is burdened with a secret too heavy to share with her ally and mentor, an unexpected darkness begins to shadow her, and in her new role as Renatus's apprentice she is a reluctant player in a game started half a century before…

Sometimes we escape the past. Other times we are left haunted. With the world watching after the tragic events in Prague, the White Elm is on damage control. A councilor lost. An apprentice scarred. Ancient alliances shaken. Power seems determined to find its level. Amidst this escalating chaos, Aristea and Renatus struggle to reconcile their failures and the toxic secrets fostering new tensions between them. Aristea tests the boundaries of their friendship, and her position as a council apprentice, in her fixation with saving him and the others she loves. The mistakes of the past continue to unravel but for the Dark Keeper and his apprentice, who they were and who they want to be, weighs heavily, when each choice might be a step down the wrong path...

Sometimes the chaos spares us. Other times we are fractured. In the blink of an eye, everything changed. Power has changed hands and the White Elm council, benevolent peacekeepers of magic for centuries, is suppressed under a blockade of enemy sorcerers. For Renatus, heroes have fallen, the lost have returned, and nothing is as it should be. Outside his gates, society is divided, and long-held assumptions can no longer be taken for granted. Separated from Renatus, hunted by everyone, and on the wrong side of the White Elm's law, Aristea's newly learned magic and limited resources are put to the test as she tries to protect the secret hidden within her buried memories. But Fate has plans, generations in the making, for the council's wayward apprentice and her conflicted master, and the cost of seeing them through may mean never being whole again.