The Nutcracker Trilogy Series

Unsure of how he escaped the prison known as Ivanov's Home for Orphaned Boys, Fritz finds himself the newest apprentice in the most powerful Wizard consortium, The Order. After uncovering clues to a decade-old murder, Fritz becomes the unwitting target of someone who wants him dead. To keep him from solving the mystery, they're willing to kill anyone–including Fritz's friends and family. Now Fritz is in a race against time to unravel the clues and unmask the murderer before the next kill. If he has ny hopes of surviving, Fritz must unify his fellow group of dysfunctional apprentices and confront the most deadly enemy he's ever known. Drosselmeyer: Curse of the Rat King is book one of the action-packed Nutcracker Trilogy chronicling Drosselmeyer's rise to power and setting up the events in the Nutcracker ballet.

For the last five years, Fritz has lived a reclusive, solitary life trying to open the Celestine and save his imprisoned friends. But, during his absence, Ivanov’s Home for Orphaned Boys re-opened under new, mysterious owners, children all over the world began to disappear, and a diabolical power is driving the Czar and the Five Kingdoms into a suicidal conflict over gold. With his brother enlisted for war and the remaining Wizards of The Order bent on revenge, Fritz must foil the Czar’s insidious plot to steal gold, forge new alliances, and defeat an enemy unaffected by his magic before everyone he loves is gone forever. Drosselmeyer: The Watcher’s Realm is book two of The Nutcracker Trilogy. 

Fritz wakes up from near death as a prisoner in Delysia, a strange realm ruled by the powerful sorcerer, Malregent, and guarded by an army of Lignumorts. With no hope of escape from his prison walls, he resigns himself to a new life as a slave. When a fellow prisoner is killed for sport in a gladiator ring, Fritz vows revenge and volunteers to fight in the grizzly games. But after discovering that Malregent knows how to unlock the Celestine, Fritz is determined to learn the secret and get back home to save his friends.  Without his magic to aid him, Fritz is in the fight of his life against trained warriors, deadly Lignumorts, and an evil emperor that has the power to destroy his world and everyone in it. Drosselmeyer: Dance of the Nutcracker is the action packed conclusion to The Nutcracker Trilogy.