Tuesday, September 16, 2025

'Into a Vault of Blood' Is Now Available for Preorder

Book #3 of the Pearl Dragon series is now available for preorder!

The novella will be released Oct. 15, in the midst of spooky season. Bwahahahaha …

Check it out here.




Blurb

New Orleans. A city brimming with spiritual energy and magic.

Art thief Pearl Tham is lured out of hiding. The Fortingris werewolves might still be after her for what she did in France, but the promise of long-lost treasure is too tempting.

She travels to a Haitian vodou shop in New Orleans expecting to learn the location of a painting she’s long wanted. Instead, she finds trouble of the worst kind. It isn’t in her nature to run, so she does what she does best: go into full battle mode. 

The problem is, she’s fighting the most bloodthirsty of the supernatural entities that call New Orleans home.

Laissez les bons temps rouler. Let the good times roll.

Dive into this fast-paced adventure if you love strong female antiheroes, monster slaying, high stakes, werewolves and vampires.


If you haven’t read the first two novellas, you can check them out here:

Offerings for the Dead

Under a Hunter’s Moon


Here's a snippet from Into a Vault of Blood:




Pearl slowed down. It felt like she’d been running forever. She should have reached the edge of the cemetery by now. The rows of tombs surrounding her in every direction were very similar in the dark. Could she have been running around in circles and not known it?

She was debating whether to climb onto one of the taller vaults to see if she could find the perimeter wall when she spotted fleeting movement. She swung around, her katana raised.

A girl sat at the base of a stone angel. She was around eight or nine years old. The moon’s radiance passed right through her. The translucence of the child’s skin and her long white gown told Pearl she was a ghost, and long dead.

The young apparition eyed her intently from her seat. “What are you doing?”

She spoke barely above a whisper. If there had been trees around, Pearl might have mistaken the voice for the rustle of leaves in the breeze.

Her thumping heart settled down. Apparitions didn’t bother her. They were everywhere in New Orleans. She had already seen several in the cemetery, most of whom were minding their own business.



Sunday, July 20, 2025

Coming in August ...



Under a Hunter’s Moon, the second book in my Pearl Dragon series, will be available on Amazon and Amazon Kindle Unlimited starting Aug. 1.

If you can't wait, you can pre-order the novella right now!

Blurb 

A castle in the French Pyrenees. A priceless relic. 

Art thief Pearl Tham is presented with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. And the truth is, she can’t afford to pass it up. The underworld art community has shunned her following the disastrous tomb-raiding incident in China a year ago.

Pearl has another reason to take the job. She has her eye on something that could secure her reputation with her customers. The assignment, however, isn’t what it seems. An unforeseen complication springs up, the lycanthropic kind.

Pearl is forced to fight for survival under the light of the full moon. It helps that she herself is one ornery, tough-to-kill, badass bitch.

This series is for you if you want a quick read with fast-paced action. 

Click here to check out Under a Hunter's Moon



Tuesday, July 1, 2025

'Offerings for the Dead' Now Available on Amazon





My novella Offerings for the Dead is now available on Amazon and Amazon Kindle Unlimited!

The book features Pearl Tham, a grave robber and art thief with magical abilities. She can manipulate qi, the vital essence or life force flowing through living as well as non-living things.

If you’ve read The Geomancer’s Apprentice series, you’ll know that Pearl is geomancer Joe Tham’s half sister, and a thorough badass.

Offerings for the Dead is the first book in the Pearl Dragon novella series, revolving around Pearl’s early adventures in her quest for treasure and relics. Under a Hunter’s Moon, the second book in the series, is now available through pre-order. The books were previously available only to my newsletter subscribers.

I hope you check out the new novellas. I’ll be adding to the stories in time.

This series is for you if you want a quick read with fast-paced action.

Blurb for Offerings for the Dead


A tomb hidden in a remote mountain in China, filled with treasure.

This should be an easy job for grave robber and art thief Pearl Tham. However, things go wrong from the start. A storm springs up, forcing Pearl and her team to seek shelter in an abandoned village.

She discovers before long that the village isn’t abandoned after all. Its residents have been around for hundreds of years and they’re hungry. Very hungry.

Pearl has her Dragon powers, her katana and her gun. Will they be enough to save her life, let alone the lives of her lover and her friends?

Dive into this fast-paced adventure if you like strong female antiheroes, Asian magic and mysticism, and terrifying monsters from Asian folklore.

Click here to check out the novella. 







PEARL THAM: BRIEF RECAP


Who is she?

Feng shui practitioner Joe Tham’s badass half sister.


Occupation?

Grave robber, art thief. Expert on Chinese antiquities.


What’s her deal?

Pearl bitterly resents the Tham family because of the way she and her mother were treated. She has some of the same abilities as Junie Soong, my Geomancer female protagonist. Pearl was trained by her father, the Golden Dragon, until she turned 15, when he decided her character faults made her unworthy of being a Dragon warrior.


Weapons of choice?

She loves swords. Her main weapon is the katana. She also is proficient with the wakizashi and tanto, two other traditional Japanese swords, and with the shuriken (ninja throwing star). She has been known to use a gun.