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A Dead Man's Riff

Genres: Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi), Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 12-15, 18+

A Seattle music venue. Five forgotten master tapes. One hungry frequency that wants the whole city to go quiet. Donny Wickersham is a professional fixer—an audio engineer who can hunt down any buzz, any feedback loop, any bad connection. When he inherits his late uncle’s legendary club, The Downbeat, he intends to do the only sensible thing: patch it up, sell it, and move on. Then he plays a tape. The sound is too good to be abandoned… and too loud to be safe. The building’s old hum dies. The air turns cold. Liquor bottles become projectiles. A presence in a nineteenth-century suit makes its claim: My house. With bartender Katie Douglas caught in the crossfire and a disgraced critic sniffing around for a scandal, Donny teams up with Sherry Wick—a sharp, skeptical podcaster who maps hauntings like circuitry and treats ghosts like measurable signals. Together they uncover a “dead...

The Apotheosis Protocol - The Techno Witch Files 3

Genres: Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Magical Realism, Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 12-15, 18+

We are two voices in one throat—Nova’s stubborn human ache and Selene’s old, surgical calm. We thought sharing a body meant sharing power. We didn’t expect to share debt. When Devereaux’s voice unspools from the wreckage of a dead net and points us to Marcel in a cemetery, we follow because we have to. Because Code & Candle lives in the people we love, because Dare will stand in a doorway and refuse to look away, because the city needs a seam stitched before the wound becomes an altar. We walk into catacombs and telegraph tunnels, bargain with a queen who drinks politeness like wine, and face an Engine built from the bones of saints and the cleverness of mad men. We can shred the corruption—but every act of purification burns out a memory. Each ritual costs us a part of who we were. We count breaths, we count heartbeats;...

The Serpent's Riddle - The Techno Witch Files 2

Genres: Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Magical Realism, Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 12-15, 18+

When the dead start humming with corrupted data and the city’s protective wards begin to fracture, New Orleans’ fragile peace cracks open. Nova Tran, a culpable coder turned reluctant techno-witch, discovers her mentor’s old enemies have matured into a lethal new strategy: weaponize the city’s ley lines through servers and spirits. To stop the True Krewe du Code Noir, Nova must partner with Selene Rousseau, vampire, aristocrat, and unwilling ally, and guide a ragtag group of couriers, musicians, and bookshop witches into a battle beneath the Cathedral. As the Serpent’s Cipher adapts, choices become unbearable. Vivienne Laurent offers a bargain that could buy victory but cost the city its agency. Marcy, a saxophonist who hears the city’s pain, may be the only one who can sing the counter-frequency. Nova must decide what she’s willing to become to save what she loves—and whether a liberated city is worth losing herself for.

The Convegence Ritual - The Techno Witch Files 1

Genres: Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Magical Realism, Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 12-15, 18+

Nova thought her days of dangerous experiments were over, she prefers troubleshooting coffee machines and wards to rewriting reality. But when a tiny blip in her café's diagnostic feed blooms into a chain of citywide glitches, she recognizes the old signature: the Krewe du Code Noir. That means one thing—Dr. Henrietta Mercier is back. Mercier's plan isn't petty revenge. She's grafted blood magic to servers and anchored crystalline portals across New Orleans, and now she’s shopping for a marriage between code and ritual. Nova can't let the city she loves become a lab. So she rounds up her ragtag crew: Marcel the Captain, Dare the courier, Marcy the saxophonist, and a very complicated ex-friend named Selene. They break into museums, mansions, and masquerades to pull the plug. Funny where courage finds you: in old songs, bitter coffee, and friendships you thought were over. This is a gritty, witty chase through...