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a dark fantasy romance with paranormal and epic elements set in 1660s Europe
Bound by Fate and Blood
The Merna Annals (Book 1)
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The tide has Turned, and a secret world is revealed...
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Scottish merchant Baron Christian “Ian” Sinclair longs for solid ground after sailing the Atlantic for an extra six months under King Charles' banner. His expectations for a warm homecoming are dashed when he finds his family dead or missing, his estate burning down, and he winds up captured.
Nephtyri, the last of two full-blooded vampires and the great-granddaughter of pharaohs, dreams of Ian long before he docks in London. In exchange for his time and allegiance, she offers to avenge his murdered family, even though they rank highly in the Hunters' Guild—slayers and slavers intent on destroying the magical immortals known as merna.
Her people.
As Ian realizes his undesired role in this hidden war between hunters and merna, he also learns about the people around him, people who accept him. He and Nephtyri learn about one another. They might be from different worlds... but their souls long to be bound together as fated mates.
Ian's decisions will either save or shatter Nephtyri, his newly found family, and the council of all merna, the Arsinoëphorus Alliance. Will Ian Turn against the Hunters' Guild, become a wanted fugitive, and end the war against arcane immortals? Or will he take his place as the Imperial Lord Hunter and bring devastation to all merna?
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What happened to magic and all of its immortal warriors according to human history? Was the truth lost to time? Find out in The Merna Annals, an epic paranormal fantasy romance series which contains a swashbuckling host of magical adventurers caught in the 17th century human world, fighting to save their fates and their loves from a desolate legacy of destruction.
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Meet Nephtyri
She's the great-granddaughter of Pharaoh Arsinoë, who escaped being murdered by her sister, Cleopatra, and became the mother of all vampires. (Yes, THAT Cleopatra!) However, the biggest difference between them other than two generations of immortal queens? Nephtyri sits in exile in London, 1665--not Ptolemaic Egypt. She's also outrunning extinction at the hands of the Hunters' Guild, the final representation of Marc Antony's army on Earth. These slayers and enslavers view her as the top prize in their bounty system, but they're hiding all these secrets from their heir.
Meet Ian
Born in the human world as Baron Christian Silas Alexander Sinclair, Ian is unaware of what goes on at home when he is at sea. Running a merchant fleet with The Caribbean calling him away for swaths of time, he finds himself longing for something much more--and not just a wife and family of his own. This time, though, arriving home hurts and costs him his human life and his favorite sibling to reveal the lies their father,
Silas the Slayer, took to the grave.
They might be from different worlds... but their souls are Fated to be mated. Even if it means ending the Hunters' Guild, their war against Merna, and the magic these immortal beings wield for good.
What happened to magic and all of its immortal warriors according to human history? The Merna Annals contain the secrets lost to time. Can they change Nephtyri's legacy? Can Fate be stopped?
This tale continues in Book 2: Bound by Oath and Heart.
Bound by Oath and Heart
The Merna Annals (Book 2)
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Everything comes with a price.
Fractured by the betrayal of their new queen’s brother, at the Gathering of all immortal magic wielders, merna scatter to the winds. The five, remaining Elders split Ian and Nephtyri at Aryeh and Bjorn’s insistence.
Suspicious of their allegiances in her ranks as the new merna queen, Nephtyri heightens the search to free her lost grandmother from the Hunters’ captivity. A quest to find Ian a weapon to match his powers binds him to his bloodbound siblings. With the help of Aryeh and others near and afar, they plot with Ian and his siblings to save the Alliance.
Though the budding couple can visit one another in dreams, a life apart tests their bond. And no one yet realizes their sunwalker has a new secret. Their quests reveal not all mythical creatures are lost, and celestials play foul.
In Bjorn’s Halls of Amaranth, Rochelle is pressured to adapt to a lesser role as leader of all vampires. The lycan Elder once made an oath to protect Rochelle until his dying breath. He never intended to break her heart to do it.
As the dead walk and the living fight to thrive, will newly found joy wait for our heroes on the horizon? Or will it all slip away?
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Can immortals save magic, or will humans end them to steal divine power? Find out by continuing The Merna Annals, an epic paranormal fantasy romance series, which contains a diverse host of magical heroes caught in the 17th century human world, fighting to save their fates and their loves from a desolate legacy of destruction.
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Meet Rochelle
Formerly a Norse noblewoman in a time when Vikings walked across what is now French soil, she is the first to accept Nephtyri's vein as a Turnling. Despite the few hundred years separating them in age, Rochelle rose quickly to the challenge of what it meant to be a First Turnling. Not only is she very much the eldest daughter Nephtyri didn't think she could conceive, but Rochelle is also the first female to earn wearing Arsinoë's tiara as Uran Shifei. No other female gained the role purely through merit in a time when exiling their princess and her progenitor meant preservation for all merna--and not just vampires. In the past, she courted Bjorn. When she accepted the weight of the tiara and its duties, it ripped them apart.​
Meet Bjorn
Raised in Sweden, he and his human sister, Iliada, Turned at the hand of the former lycan Elder--who he rose to replace in his sister's stride. Meeting Rochelle, Iliada's eventual best friend, the night he learned about immortals being more than myth brought his little vampire's song into his life. Without either female, he withers and refuses to work with his fellow Elders easily to buck Rochelle's reign as Uran Shifei. Unafraid and broody on the outside, he feels lost when exile hits his friends and beloveds hardest. Jealous of Nephtyri, he accepts change and a role as Ian's mentor in magic at the end of Book 1: Bound by Fate and Blood.
Bjorn once made an oath to protect Rochelle until his dying breath. He didn't intend to break her heart to do it. The dark epic paranormal fantasy romance continues! Can immortals save magic, or will humans end them to steal divine power? For good?
This tale continues in Book 3: Bound by Vengeance and Mind.
Bound by Vengeance and Mind
The Merna Annals (Book 3)
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Balance dictates the price of happiness.
Reunited under Nephtyri’s command, the Arsinoëphorus Alliance of immortal magical users, merna, reorganizes against the Hunters’ Guild. Empowered by the Goddess Nephthys, she leads an attack on Ephesus at a great price.
Will the family of immortals ever be the same?
Meanwhile, in England and France, Ian tests the strength of his new blade. However, he fears his human brother, Ronan, lives as the Imperial Lord Heir. Consumed with the needs of his new siblings, and Aryeh’s distractions over missing memoirs, the merna king faces vengeance or capture.
Likewise, Frey frets over Lee’s captivity in the hands of the Hunters’ Guild and struggles with more responsibility. Saving his beloved catkin binds him to his siblings, old and new—just in time to share their anguish. Frey loves Lee to the point of bettering himself, but can Lee bring herself to commit to him and the council of immortals one last time?
Torn between self-medication and redemption, Frey learns old debts seldom disappear when accepting a fallen angel’s aid. What will his decisions mean to his found family and all of merna?
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Can immortals save magic, or will humans end them to steal divine power? Find out by continuing The Merna Annals, an epic paranormal fantasy romance series, which contains a diverse host of magical heroes caught in the 17th century human world, fighting to save their fates and their loves from a desolate legacy of destruction.
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Meet Lee
Born in what is now Korea, Lee traveled the Silk Roads through various means to stay alive. She always knew as a human male that she was different, and not just because she's a catshifter. Meeting Frey and Nephtyri in Paris one night many years ago changed her life in ways she never planned. Accepting her merna lineage came with accepting her true identity--new clothes and all. Every since their first walk on the river bank together, though, Frey's consistent love and flirtation forces her to face her greatest enemy: commitment to self and others. His adoptive mother might be Lee's familiar and their queen, and the Hunters will not keep her captive for long.
​Meet Frey
Unaware of his skills and abilities as a realmwalker, Frey doesn't take orders well. Nephtyri might be his Mah-ren, his adoptive mother and more, but she cannot save him from his own self-sabotage. When the Hunters capture Lee during Bound by Oath and Heart's tales, Frey disappears for, as he says, "six weeks but three years." He's forever changed and figuring out the ways to break the ties to a contract he holds with Ezekiel. A contract that cannot be fulfilled under specific, love-lost being resolved reasons.
Frey loves Lee to the point of bettering himself, but can she bring herself to commit to him and the dying council of immortals one, last time? The dark epic paranormal fantasy romance continues! Can immortals save magic, or will humans end them to steal divine power? For good?
This tale continues in Book 4: Bound by Hope and Spirit.
Bound by Hope and Spirit
The Merna Annals (Book 4)
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Fate could not be changed.
Ian sacrificed everything by joining the Hunters’ Guild as Imperial Lord Hunter, shattering the Alliance of merna as prophesized. Meanwhile, Elders and allies conduct a desperate search for his mate, Nephtyri. Though paranoia abounds, her Turnlings refuse to give up.
The ghosts of the Arsinoëphorus Alliance, which kept all magical beings bound to one another, linger while the immortals flee. Every wasted sunset tips the hourglass one sunrise closer toward baby Elias’s birth as the prince of all arcane immortals.
Vouvry, the ever loyal dracokin, feels the sting of betrayal. Rather than taking the mantle as the new dracokin Elder, he leaves behind hope and banishes himself into exile. He takes his precious Maria with him, even though her amnesia condemns them to isolation.
In Polish territory, they convert an abandoned monastery into a shelter for misfits and orphans. Tormented by his past affection for her, Vouvry desires a new life with the lovely Spanish vampire. The commonality of their old beliefs might make Christmas a perfect opportunity to kindle a new, shared life.
Without her memories, Maria rebuffs him at every instance. At his weakest, the enemy sends a temptress to lure his pure spirit. Will Vouvry fall for the ruse, or will Maria finally allow herself to feel the love he has for her? Will they realize the danger and prevent further heartbreak?
*****
The years bring turmoil as rumors and betrayal coalesce into anarchy, and loyalties among the merna realign. Find out what will happen in The Merna Annals, an epic paranormal fantasy romance series, which contains a diverse host of magical heroes caught in the human world, fighting to save their fates and their loves from a desolate legacy of destruction.
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Meet Maria
Growing up in Castilian Spain as a minor noble wasn't as long as she had hoped. Being forced into a nunnery at the age of five, she doesn't recall why--nor why she lost her sight, other than something about waking up outside of a burning barn. As Abraxas' Turnling, she isn't often aware of how her allegiance to his heart has been misused for well over a century and to the point she ignores advice from her friends and found family. After going missing as Lee was being found, Maria returns to the Alliance as a shell of her former self, and Vouvry's anger over Abraxas' dealings reached their climactic ceiling. Not only does her memory falter, but so does magic. Trading her vows for a life of fangs tests her faith, and Vouvry gives her hope at last.​
Meet Vouvry
As a former Swiss Pontifical Guard, Vouvry thought coming into his life as a dracokin would be another type of spiritual adventure he didn't foresee coming. After all, reclaiming a new birthday on Christmas had its lasting effect. He understands Nephtyri's appreciation for power while also never wanting to wield it. Watching his siblings--Ian, Frey, and Harumi--blossom their romances into something worth fighting for tightened the barbed wires around Vouvry's spirit. All the while, he would repair Abraxas' damage to Maria, even if she can't yet bring herself to realize the soulmate standing before her loses himself the more she loses her memories.Vouvry goes to great lengths to heal his and Maria's past. Even to the point of disappearing as the Alliance falls apart.
The dark epic paranormal fantasy romance continues! Can immortals save magic, or will humans end them to steal divine power? For good?
This tale continues in Book 5: Bound by Lyric and Time.
Bound by Lyric and Time
The Merna Annals (Book 5)
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Fate could not be changed.
Ian sacrificed everything by joining the Hunters’ Guild as Imperial Lord Hunter, shattering the Alliance of merna as prophesized. Meanwhile, Elders and allies conduct a desperate search for his mate, Nephtyri. Though paranoia abounds, her Turnlings refuse to give up.
The ghosts of the Arsinoëphorus Alliance, which kept all magical beings bound to one another, linger while the immortals flee. Every wasted sunset tips the hourglass one sunrise closer toward baby Elias’s birth as the prince of all arcane immortals.
Vouvry, the ever loyal dracokin, feels the sting of betrayal. Rather than taking the mantle as the new dracokin Elder, he leaves behind hope and banishes himself into exile. He takes his precious Maria with him, even though her amnesia condemns them to isolation.
In Polish territory, they convert an abandoned monastery into a shelter for misfits and orphans. Tormented by his past affection for her, Vouvry desires a new life with the lovely Spanish vampire. The commonality of their old beliefs might make Christmas a perfect opportunity to kindle a new, shared life.
Without her memories, Maria rebuffs him at every instance. At his weakest, the enemy sends a temptress to lure his pure spirit. Will Vouvry fall for the ruse, or will Maria finally allow herself to feel the love he has for her? Will they realize the danger and prevent further heartbreak?
*****
The years bring turmoil as rumors and betrayal coalesce into anarchy, and loyalties among the merna realign. Find out what will happen in The Merna Annals, an epic paranormal fantasy romance series, which contains a diverse host of magical heroes caught in the human world, fighting to save their fates and their loves from a desolate legacy of destruction.
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Meet Harumi
She's the newest and youngest of Nephtyri's familiars. Unlike her queen and Lee, Harumi is the quiet rogue meant to sing her way through slashes and bashes for victory. While she and Lee have many similarities in their past, Harumi has yet to appreciate herself in the same ways as a masterpiece. On the other hand, with bloodbound brothers like Frey, Vouvry, and Ian, she learns quickly how important she is among a group. Her heart doesn't trust taking a risk on her own future, and while Murakawa and GorGor have fought for her hand and attention, only one of the two males proved he cared about her well-being above all.​
Meet GorGor
Torn between the duties of his heart and his vow to protect Aryeh, the king of all faeries, GorGor proves he is that male. From the moment he first met Harumi, he wanted nothing more than to forsake both of their vows to crowns and the Alliance for starting their own lives as a traditional, typical couple. When they are forced to face their choices versus their desires, he considers paying the ultimate price to keep the one he loves most alive.
GorGor and Harumi travel across the realms to help Nephtyri and Ian reunite all merna for the sake of the future. Vampires, werewolves, faeries, dracokin, catshifters, humans, demons, angels, and earth will feel the final battle of Season 1 throughout history.
The dark epic paranormal fantasy romance concludes here for Season 1. Is there a Season 2? Only time and magic will tell.