The Bookworm Brigade Series

The black ops agent codenamed Athena had the target in her sights. When Vulcan's Forge wanted a man dead, they sent their best and Athena tops that list. The end of the target's story should have been one trigger squeeze away. Unfortunately, the bullet did not accomplish the job. Instead, it revealed mysteries Athena had never encountered before. Newly promoted field operative Parnik "Venkat" Venkateswaran thinks she knows how the missions for the secretive Malleus Librum Society are supposed to go: Recover books of ancient, blasphemous lore and bring them to the Society's vault. However, when the book in question serves as the basis for one diabolic man's supernatural defenses, a simple acquisition mission takes on dangerous permutations. Initially working at cross purposes, Athena and Venkat must learn to trust one another and pool their resources if they ever hope to triumph over a impossibly powerful mastermind, his cult of zealous maniacs, and his seemingly otherworldly guardians . . . Scary Intel is the first adventure in Kaysee Renee Robichaud's Bookworm Brigade series of dark fantasy novels, which follows the supernatural sleuthing and book-obsessed Malleus Librum Society's efforts to remove forbidden lore from the public sphere.

Unseen by most, there is a world where magic, monsters, and madness yearn to be freed from ancient prisons. The Malleus Libram is a secret society dedicated to claiming the books of lore from those who would use them to unleash cosmic dread upon the world. They are The Bookworm Brigade. Parnik "Venkat" Venkateswaran is a young page with the Malleus Libram. Her second outing teams her with a veteran partner, a tough as nails woman named Charlotte Bennett, and takes her far from her New England stomping grounds. In Louisiana, a group called the Silent Seven have been practicing dark acts from a mysterious volume titled The Silenium Ecclesiastices. While the cult have not yet used the secrets within to drag aside the curtain veiling the mundane world from one brimming with cosmic horrors, it is only a matter of time before their profane curiosity will threaten the fabric of existence. Without The Ecclesiastes, however, the damage they can inflict is minimized. Can Venkat and Charlotte recover this work before they fall prey to the now paranormally powered members of The Silent Seven?

For people living in the nine-to-five world of dayjobs and family values and Starbucks coffee, there is no magic and there are no threats to body, mind, and soul waiting just around the corner to engulf the unwary. However, for the members of the secret Malleus Librum Society, these threats are all too real. They have taken upon themselves the mission to keep the world safe from this knowledge by removing all the eldritch tomes of lore from public access. Parnik "Venkat" Venkateswaran and her partner Marquis Trial are back together again, and this time they have found an incident in their own backyard. A bookstore in Cambridge, Massachusetts has come into possession of a strange, locked trunk that radiates dark magic and eeriness. This thing seems somehow tied to the Malleus Librum Society's nemesis, the mysterious loosely affiliated group known as the Shadowshow. As they explore opening the trunk and plumbing its secrets, the pair discover links to Venkat's previous task in Lousiana as well as the hidden life of a recently deceased Bostonian . . . Can they unlock the mysteries and reveal the secrets before the Shadowshow claims its next victims. And will Venkat succumb to the Shadowshow's seductive call and turn her backs on the Malleus Librum Society forever? The answers await in this cross-country adventure, which takes our beloved bookworms from cold Massachusetts to hot as hell Texas. The Bookworm Brigade details the adventures of the Malleus Libram Society's newest Field Page. Although readers will find plenty of links between books, they are each written as standalone adventures.