Paranormal & Gothic Fiction
Ghost Ships. Dead Navigators. Love That Outlasts the Living.
Two separate story worlds, one shared obsession: the places where the living and the dead are not quite done with each other. The Reckoning Cycle follows ghost navigators and the cost of staying. Beautifully Dead is something else entirely — a zombie love story with teeth.
The Reckoning Cycle
A gothic maritime universe of ghost navigators, dead pirates, and the ships that refuse to stay lost. Stories set in the age of sail, where death is not always the end of the voyage — and sometimes the worst thing that can happen to you is surviving it.
Reading order is not strictly required, but suggested where indicated.
Dead Reckoning
Comic Script · The Reckoning Cycle
Inês has been dead for sixty years. She doesn’t know that yet.
Every time she wakes, she’s on a different ship, certain of two things: she survived a wreck, and she needs to find the captain before the weather kills everyone aboard.
He is on this ship. He has been on every ship. she haunted. He has spent decades becoming real enough that she might finally see him — while she walks past him, iteration after iteration, to warn a living captain who cannot hear her.
She has saved more crews than she knows. Except her own.
With a storm building at the Cape and a living crew making the same fatal mistake she couldn’t stop in 1583, will Inês choose to save the living crew one more time — or will she finally look at the man who has been standing behind her for sixty years?
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The Dutch Angle
Creative Memoir · Behind the Making of Dead Reckoning
The original script. The artist notes. The glossary, the process, the decisions made under deadline — and maybe even some fiction.
A behind-the-scenes companion for readers who want to know how the ship was built before it sailed.
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Corpo Santo
Novelette · The Reckoning Cycle · 8 years before Dead Reckoning
Inês has spent thirteen years earning a reputation that has nothing to do with who she shares coffee with at dawn, and everything to do with her own ability as a pilot.
When a diplomat’s daughter boards their ship and the captain suddenly has reasons to be elsewhere, Inês does what she does best — goes back to her instruments, keeps her own counsel, and says nothing of her own feeling.
But feelings can only be concealed so long, and when Divine intervention forces them to confront each other, she will discover their thought on the matter are not so different after all.
He has been talking to her, in his own way, all along. But will she let herself hear it?
⚓ In editing — coming soon
The Last Crossing
Novelette · The Reckoning Cycle · Immediate prequel to Dead Reckoning
Five years together and their relationship is a wide open secret on the Esperança. Her captain wants marriage, Inês defends he independence.
He has almost stopped asking. Almost.
They leave Lisbon with something broken between them — a morning that neither of them has mentioned in three weeks at sea.
When the ship stops in West Africa, and he hires a second navigator without telling her, the rift seems irreparable.
But the new pilot is a hack, his course will sink the ship, and Inés is nothing if not a good pilot.
With the weather worsening and the crew losing faith in their captain, will the truth come out in time — or will the sea be the one having the last word?
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Immortal Affections
Beautifully Dead
Novel · Co-authored with Joe Gillis
Dr. Amelia Everett arrives in Virginia with a dead career, a fresh divorce, and an inheritance she doesn’t fully understand — a Civil War-era property and a trunk full of letters from ancestors she never knew she had.
Elijah Merriweather has been waiting for whoever came to claim the Everett estate. There is something in that house he cannot complete his research without — and no way to reach it without Amelia.
The letters pull her deeper — into Eleanor Caldwell’s Richmond, into her clandestine correspondence with a Union chaplain across enemy lines, into a love story shadowed by a mysterious affliction that tore through Civil War hospitals and left survivors who were not quite what they had been. It is a disease out of history.
Until it isn’t. As a pandemic spreads with symptoms that mirror Eleanor’s letters with uncanny precision, Amelia begins to show them as well.
Elijah knows exactly what is happening to her. He has watched it happen before. And now, unexpectedly, entirely against his better judgment, he has feelings for this woman — and a choice to make: let her die as she is, or save her life and lose any chance at a future with her.
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