Magic makes you different, makes others look on you with suspicion. Many think those having such strangeness are dangerous, threatening, and also somehow undeserving of such a 'gift.' What Bertok had not related when the bishop gave him this mission was his greatest, most buried secret_he possessed such an unnatural ability. Now he must use his magic against others, expose them, and hope he would not be caught.
While I read many genre and select subjects in non-fiction, I've written mostly scifi/fantasy. Although I have more scifi in the works, this is changing as I'm also working on an historical and on a contemporary romance.
My first book, Magic Aegis, was published in 2005 and won the Dream Realm Award for Fantasy that year. Change and Acceptance are written in that same fantasy world. My science fiction efforts started with Rogue's Rules, which was a Dream Realm Award finalist, is about a multi-personality heroine. Loser's Game and Devil's Due complete that series. Devil's Due is an EPPIE finalist as well as a Dream Realm finalist for 2007.
Home World, Aginfeld is a futuristic romance and part of to-be-written series called Home Worlds.
New in April, Champagne Books released my Romantic Suspense, Stone House Farm
In February 2011, MuseItUp Publishing released Crewkin a space opera I'm sure will please scifi readers.