The Merliss Tales Series

Plagues kill but Merliss has far more to fear than a disease. Merliss is no ordinary cat. She's a young girl's spirit trapped in a cat's body. While the magic that banished her has snatched away her ability to speak to humans, it has given her a life spanning millennia. For centuries she has lived with the cunning folk, assisting their efforts to heal the sick and ward off malevolent creatures. Now a bleeding sickness has thrown the medieval community into chaos.   The cunning man Hailaird and his apprentice Fendrel are in danger from the disease. The life Merliss has worked so long to build is in jeopardy. Before she entered the cat, she had trained to be a shaman. Do her centuries of experience hold a secret to a cure? But disease isn't her only nemesis.   A pair of malevolent creatures have crossed the moor into the forest, threatening more havoc. With disease and monsters ravaging the land, Merliss is hard-pressed to survive. It couldn't be worse, until a mob looking for a scapegoat turns its wrath on Merliss. Tooth and claw and magic may not be enough.   The Great Contagion is the gripping first novel in the dark fantasy Merliss Tales series. If you like strong and dynamic characters, rich description, magic and intrigue, then you'll love Jeff Chapman's Merliss Tales.   Get The Great Contagion today to see Merliss use her wits and magic to rescue her friends and herself.

A human spirit banished to the body of a cat.   Cat Sidhe delivers epic fantasy from a cat's eye view and a journey rife with predators.   Merliss lives with the local cunning man and is not very impressed with the latest apprentice, but she does what she can to train Saerwynn.   On a routine venture to gather herbs, Merliss and Saerwynn encounter a strange creature on the moor. It walks upright. It talks. And it looks like an oversized cat, but as Merliss can attest, it doesn't smell like a cat.   The creature is a cat sidhe--a witch shifted one too many times into a cat shape. The sidhe is seeking slaves, anyone with opposable thumbs. Bones and blood are also in its sights. It soon has Saerwynn in its power and vanishes with the hapless apprentice through a portal.   Merliss faces a tough decision. Go after the sidhe and Saerwynn through the portal or warn the cunning man about the new menace afoot on the moor? How long until Saerwynn's blood is powering the sidhe's malevolent magic?   But Saerwynn isn't the only one in danger. The situation on the moor is far more dire than Merliss and her friends could have imagined.   Cat Sidhe is the first novel in the Witch Lands fantasy trilogy and book two in The Merliss Tales series. As one reviewer writes, Cat Sidhe is "a big tale set against a small background, with an epic journey."   Start prowling with Merliss now.