Mouse never dreamed he would miss his old life on the streets. Yet, here he was.

Life in the Night Fingers was nothing like he had expected or had been promised. The untimely death of guild master Surev had brought Jardem Blacksworn into power, and this new guild master somehow knew things that could land Mouse in a dungeon. Or worse. Mouse is trapped, blackmailed, doing Jardem’s bidding for no coin, gaining no status, no allies, and no respect.

But Jardem is up to something. The strange document he had Mouse pinch from a rich merchant’s bedroom has garnered some unwelcome attention for Mouse. Most notably, from the Shadow Elite, a secretive and deadly organization working against the powers of the crown. Signs point to Jardem keeping this document for himself. If Mouse can learn what it is, it could be the leverage he needs to break free from the guild forever.

But the document is more dangerous than he realizes. Anyone connected to it winds up dead. And those hunting it are growing desperate. If Mouse is to escape from under Jardem’s heel, he needs to not only keep himself alive but also the strikingly handsome and rather naïve merchant who may be the key to the whole mystery.

Auraq Greystone, once a military officer with a promising future, exists on the fringe of society. Accused of murder, Auraq is on the run from the ax—until two fugitives crash into his solitary life. One is a young man named Kane. The glowing marks on his arm pulse with an otherworldly power, and they have made him the target of a sinister organization called the Order of the Jackal. When the old man protecting Kane dies in an ambush, Auraq swears an oath to take his place.

But the runes are far more significant than they realize.

They are a message from the shadow realm, a dark memory of the past—one holding evidence of a bloody massacre and its savage architect; one that will shake the kingdom to its foundation. Risking arrest and execution, Auraq fights to get Kane to the capital city where the cryptic marking can be unlocked. And with assassins close on their trail, Auraq might never get the chance to show Kane what’s in his heart—or the way their journey together has changed him.

The Shadow Mark is an epic tale of magic, murder, conspiracy, betrayal, and—for the two men tasked with unraveling the mystery—love and redemption.

Protect it at all costs.

That’s what rugby player Hunter Best’s mother told him before she died. But when Hunter surprises an intruder in his Chicago apartment, he discovers her amulet stolen. Hunter pursues the thief―all the way through a strange vortex. He wakes in a bizarre and violent world, a benighted realm on the threshold of civil war.
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The queen has become a ruthless tyrant, punishing any who oppose her, weakening the kingdom’s defenses against the brutal Henerans. To survive, Hunter must depend on the man who robbed him, a handsome former spy named Dax, now a leader of the resistance that believes the queen is an imposter―a Heneran disguised by magic… who also looks identical to Hunter’s mother.

There’s no love lost between Hunter and Dax, and even if Hunter grudgingly agrees with the resistance, he just wants to reclaim his property and go home. But he might be the only one who can oppose the queen and end her reign of terror.

Set in the same world as LORD MOUSE and THE SHADOW MARK, these three short stories take a look at the queer happenings in and around Havenwood, a small coastal village in the kingdom of Davenia.