This complete series edition contains three full-length novels and a companion novella.
THE CREATIVES SERIES Enter into the worldBut cast aside old ideas.Step Carefully,But step with deliberation,For there is room for indecisionWhen the devil lies waiting…
Book 1: A SECRET MUSE 5th Annual Beverly Hills Book Awards Winner -- Fantasy Section UCLA art professor Coco Rhodes hates secrets. But after a near-fatal threat on her life, she can no longer ignore the darkness of her family's past.She turns to her brother, Christopher, who insists she'll find answers in her birthplace of Italy. In her mother's long-forgotten studio, Coco discovers an unfinished painting and is drawn to complete the mystical image. Enter, Gabriel, a vampire-warlock who walks in Coco's shadow, but is he her protector or killer?
Book 2: THE DEVIL AND THE MUSE Award Winning B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree Coco is surprised by a horrific vision beneath her most recent painting: the violent attack upon a fragile young girl. When a link is discovered between an education-finance fraud and several girls disappearing from Washington, D.C. schools, Coco's lover and leader of the Allegiance, the vampire-warlock Gabriel, vows to rescue the girls, and topple a corrupt congressman. Concurrently, the dark and twisted past of Kenan, the Allegiance's sworn enemy, is revealed. With Kenan's whereabouts unknown, members of the Allegiance begin to unravel his sadistic plan.
Book 3: THE IMMORTAL MUSE Complex Betrayal. Secret Murder. Monumental Revenge. Coco's trust in Gabriel is threatened as, just when she needs him most, images of his past indiscretions emerge from her paintings and she finds love letters to him from an admirer.
While the third incarnation of evil gathers strength, ancient tunnels beneath a Roman villa reveal the morbid history of Kenan and his predecessors and the secret of a fatal affair.
Mandy Jackson-Beverly was born in the bustling town of Pyramid Hill, Victoria, Australia ... Population: 419. This remote childhood kick-started Mandy's imagination, as did the rugged coastline and rolling hills of Tasmania, where her family relocated when she was four years old.
In 1982, Mandy moved to London, where she discovered the importance of the creative collective: The 1980s fashion scene. In Los Angeles, she found her own creative freedom among the thriving, no-holds-barred visionaries of the music video world. As a costume designer and stylist Mandy worked for photographer Herb Ritts, and directors Joel and Ethan Coen, David Fincher, and Julien Temple, and music icons David Bowie, Madonna, and Tina Turner, to name a few.
Mandy is a Huffington Post, and Tasmanian Times blogger. She resides in Ojai, California, with her husband, Brian Beverly, a crossed-eyed cat, Luna, a dog named Cash and, sometimes, her sons, Angus and Jack.