Crown and Country Series

Menagerie Special Agent and tiger shifter Mordecai Pope is charged with apprehending the villain who litters the river's edge with the half-shifted corpses of his colleagues. As he examines the bodies he discovers the murderer has not only taken tissue samples and blood, but removed the talises--a tattoo used to prove the shifter's registration and animal class--When an unregistered, half-shifted man is found alive and repeating the Reaver word for venom, Mordecai begins to suspect there are more to the murders than meets the eye. Lady Evangeline Murray has spent the last seven years cursing the memory of her fiance who was lost on an exotic expedition to the far ends of the world. His pursuit of scientific discovery often ovestepped the bounds of morals and propriety. Through the years, Evangeline has kept her own counsel over the man all of society dubbed "a man without peer" but whom she felt little respect. To prove his madness and free herself from binding betrothal laws, Evangeline has embarked on a perilous venture of her own. In possession of her finace's notebooks, Evangeline has painstakingly recreated his experiments and deciphered his secret codes even though scientific exploration is illegal for women in East Angelia. Now her work has brought her under the suspicion of her new beau and Menagerie Agent, Mordecai Pope. When Mordecai's case and Evangeline's past collide, they must work together to find a killer bent on creating an army of shifters and setting them loose on the world, even if it means losing each other forever.

The countries of East Angelia and Aveneaux are poised on the brink of war. Black leopard shifter and Menagerie Agent, Gideon Aldridge has been assigned by Headquarters to retrieve pieces of an experimental weather machine rumored to alter or exacerbate natural weather patterns. In this time of growning tensions with Aveneaux, one small spark could escalate to full scale war. The Agency wishes to safeguard any device that might be used as a potential weapon. A weather machine in the wrong hands can be devestating. A slippery criminal gang moves one step ahead of Gideon, collecting the pieces of the machine before he can secure them. It's a trail that leads to the very bosom of society. Olivia Brass lives a double life. As the notorious newspaper reporter Alfred J. Applebaum, she has made it her mission in life to expose the Menagerie and the secret agenda they execute to keep East Angelians under their collective thumbs. No one knows better than she how the Agency can destroy the lives of private citizens. She's seen it happen with the death of her family, forcing her to make a living for hersler and support her brother, who has been locked in asylums most of his adult life--another crime she lays at the Menagerie's feet. A chance meeting in a science and novelty shop will change Olivia's life forever, as an unexpected benefactor, Gideon, offers to help her with securing medical care for her beloved brother. When a local landmark is blown into the Taming River, accusations point to Olivia, leveled by the very man she's come to love and trust. Gideon will stop at nothing to reclaim all the pieces of the weather machine and bring the conspirators to justice, even if that means arresting the only woman he's ever loved.

The sound of redemption is a ticking clock. For three years, Gunjo has sat rotting in an East Angelian prison for stealing the Crystal Spgylass from the Royal Depository. Unable to locate the artifact, Queen Vittoria grants him a conditional release with the mandate--find the Spyglass or join his fellow conspirators on the gallows. As time runs out, his contacts are dropping dead. It will take a miracle to clear this case and find the Spyglass before their enemies discover it and covert it to the weapon of mass destruction it was designed to be.

A failed assassin is a dead assassin…or so the rules which govern the Aveneaux Assassins' Guild proclaim. As a Guild member, Aribelle L'Angier knows her mission is dangerous, but some rules were made to be broken. The risk worth the sacrifice. When her attempt to assassinate East Angelían Agency member and rumored spy, Declan Cervantes goes decidedly sideways, she is taken on a journey back to the homeland she swore never to return to again. The longer Declan is in Aribelle's presence, the more he realizes she is far from what she seems. Objectives that should have been crystal clear blur the more is revealed of her secret agenda. A series of explosions near her looks as if her Guild might be close to exacting their revenge for her failure. Or are they? When a dead chemist she'd been sent to dispatch, resurfaces very much alive and the object of a mad man's obsession, Declan and Aribelle must race against time to find him before the secrets of his formula are revealed and it plunges East Angelía into civil war.