The Darby X Series
Adult Science Fiction / Psychological Horror
Darby X: Book 1 – The Curse of Black Tail
Darby Xanthe is practical, levelheaded and doesn’t go in for things like aliens and Bigfoot. Until she ends up on the hunt for an invisible monster and discovers something else out there a whole lot worse.
Darby works at a park with her best friend Kara, patrolling campsites, chopping wood and whatever else needs doing. It’s an easy world she understands until she and Kara are asked to check in on a strange RV. They meet a trio: Everett Scott, a researcher, his teenage daughter Sylvia and an assistant named Rourke. They claim to be investigating strange phenomena and reveal an internet video of something invisible plowing through the tall grass in the vicinity of a nearby mountain.
Darby is skeptical at best.
Then two hunters go missing.
Darby and Kara join the search but her well-ordered world erodes when she runs into creatures and entities that not only shouldn’t exist but came from somewhere other than Earth.
For a pragmatic young woman grounded in science and logic, discovering there’s a bigger world than what she thought rattles her. Surviving may not be as hard as living with what she’s seen.
Darby X is planned as a five to six book series following Darby as she gets pulled further down the rabbit hole discovering there are other worlds right next to ours.
Unpublished: Finished, beta read and thoroughly edited.
The manuscript is available for submission.
Darby X: Book Two – The Devil’s Bowl
Darby might have survived the incidents at Black Tail but she didn’t walk away unscathed.
Unable to sleep or cope in the dark, Darby is unraveling. Even Kara, her closest friend and confidant struggles to keep her grounded.
Then Rourke contacts Darby and she finds out Sylvia is having the similar problems. Rourke thinks it may help both Darby and Sylvia if they support each other and their team is about to rendezvous with another researcher.
Darby’s afraid they’ll encounter more extra-dimensional phenomena but staying at the park is mentally wearing down. Joining them, Darby has second thoughts as they arrive at a valley in Canada with a mysterious keep that only recently appeared, and a mist that comes every night claiming anyone who steps beyond the safety of the walls.
Darby’s not sure if any of it will help her confront her fears or push her over the edge forever.
Unpublished but it’s also completed, beta read and edited.
Ready for submission.
Darby X: Book Three – The Dragon’s Triangle
Darby returns to her park job hoping she’s resolved her fears and life can return to normal.
Except doors have been opened, and as Darby learns more, new threats show themselves. Everett Scott and his team have stepped into something larger than they were prepared for and Darby encounters a new duo of entities that force her and Kara out of the park.
When Everett Scott and his team head to Japan’s legendary Dragon’s Triangle to look for a missing researcher, they rescue Darby and Kara along the way.
Like the Bermuda triangle, Japan’s counterpart has its own growing list of disappeared ships, strange lights and unexplained sightings.
Darby’s about to get another glimpse of worlds beyond her own and this time something’s searching for them.
Darby X: The Dragon’s Triangle is approximately half finished.
The New World
Adult Post Apocalyptic speculative fiction with supernatural elements.
A disease ravaged world only leaves a fraction of the world’s population alive to survive and rebuild.
Simon was an English professor but his world is gone. Not built for survival, he was lucky to find the Estates. In his eyes this community is the last bastion of civilization and maybe the only hope for humanity.
Except the integrity of the Estates is tested as an old friend of Simon’s shows up at the gates toting a unique gun that the leaders decide is a game changer for protecting the Estates. They end up taking it by force when Simon’s friend decides to leave instead of joining them.
It sparks a war and Simon ends up in the middle.
He’s expected to side with the Estates who broke their own rules “for the greater good.” The alternative is sticking up for the principles the Estates was built upon, but it will either get him banished back into a world he’s not built to survive, or get him killed.
The New World is finished, beta read and edited. It’s unpublished and ready for submission.