Jewel Academy Series

You got sent to the Jewel Academy when you were too magically dangerous to go to reform school and too young to go to prison. Lola Bragg didn't belong there. She belonged at the Coven School for Girls. Except that she was born with a Tootsie roll pop in her mouth, instead of a silver spoon. Lola blew any chance of a scholarship when she convinced her mom's pervy boss to keep his hands to himself—and while he was at it, buy them a new car and give her mom a raise.  Stefan Harte belonged in prison. Rumor had it, he killed a boy for making fun of him. And the grapevine said he had terrorized his own family so badly, they made the Jewel Academy board him year-round. Stefan isn't confirming or denying. He doesn't speak. He communicates through his artwork or his fists. He would have been a talented painter, if he wasn't a werelion that everyone expected to go crazy before his next birthday. If Lola is going to survive the cliques, the course work, and the dangers of Jewel Academy with the mind magic blocker the court put on her wrist, she's going to need a bodyguard. If you're going to rent a thug, you rent the biggest one you can find. Only Stefan doesn't want money, doesn't want anything except to be left alone. But when outside forces come to the Jewel Academy, there's safety in numbers—even if you're a half grey witch and a half-feral lion shifter

Weak equals Prey at the Jewel Academy.   Mindbender Lola Bragg found that out the hard way. A teenage witch this side of juvenile detention, Lola has a vital secret to keep. She must keep up the illusion that she is still magically shackled and weakened by anti-magic bracelets otherwise she'll become the prey everyone thinks she is.   Still in a blood contract with Andrei, an aristocratic vampire, Lola is worried that her were-lion bodyguard Stefan is growing distant each passing day. She's afraid she'll lose him to his darkness, but he doesn't want her help with his personal demons. Lola needs the security of a coven, but no coven wants a weakened mage. If she ever wants to drop the illusion and have the powers-that-be trust that she can use her mind magic responsibly, Lola needs to find a way to fit into the Jewel Academy's cliques instead of forging her own alliances with the lunatic fringe of the school's society.   When Andrei finds an artifact that could give Lola the answers she needs about her father's murder, she skirts the Academy's rules against using black magic. With the ever-imposing threat of the FBMI over her head, and of being magically neutered, Lola is determined to find out why her family and her life has been torn apart.

No One Escapes the Jewel Academy.   On lockdown by the Federal Bureau of Magical Investigation, Jewel Academy is going to have to forfeit the annual Sigil Games.   Not if Lola can help it.   With the vampire delegation led by her "friend with blood benefits" Andrei and the shifter contingent represented by her brooding bodyguard Stefan, all Lola needs is for the witch covens to vote her in as their candidate.   Except, they hate her.   Of course, then the team must figure out a way to sneak past armed guards and magical traps to get to Ireland's Emerald City where the games are being held. Easier said than done. But if it was easy, Lola wouldn't be interested.   Waiting for Lola at the Sigil games is more than a healthy competition between magic schools.  The man who killed her father is rumored to be there.  Lola wants revenge more than she wants the three wishes the number one team gets, even if forfeiting the competition could put her life and her teammates' lives at risk.

Ghouls. Why did it have to be ghouls? Mindbender Lola Bragg and her two friends, were-lion Stefan and vampire Andrei, are given the gross job of cleaning the bottom floors of the Jewel Academy's library from packs of rampaging ghouls. Meanwhile they're missing out on their class's field trip to Faulkner's Island. Lola hates being stuck in the Jewel Academy. It's a cross between a special magical school and juvie. She'd do anything to sneak out and join her class, but before she could launch a plan, the entire Junior class of the Jewel Academy has been kidnapped by merfolk. Divided into two categories, slaves or food, the students are forced by the mermen to loot the hoard of a blue dragon and keep it contained behind a magical barrier so it doesn't extract revenge on them for stealing his sapphires. It's up to Lola, Stefan, and Andrei to save the day. But deep in the ocean, who's going to save them when things go horribly wrong?