The bookshelf
Two series of American folk-horror — one complete in six volumes, one just beginning.
A complete series
Each book sends Wren to a different haunted corner of America to bind a different old thing — and exacts a different permanent price. Read them in order; the cost, and the answer, compound.
Some things are only sleeping.
Sixteen-year-old Wren Ouatoga is sent to her late grandfather's house in Alton, Illinois — to a family history she never wanted, and the centuries-old mural of the Piasa Bird on the Mississippi bluffs that has begun to bleed real. The legend says the bird was killed. The legend is wrong.
Some things a place survives only by forgetting.
A year after she bound the Piasa, Wren follows a dead Keeper's half-remembered song into an Appalachian coal hollow — a green, closed-in place where the thing in the black water has been quiet for a generation, because the people who live there agreed, without ever saying so, never to remember it.
Superior never gives up her dead.
A list of lonely keepers pulls Wren a thousand miles north, to a dying iron town on the cold edge of Lake Superior — a lake so deep and so cold it keeps the drowned whole and unchanged forever, and something out on the water has started lighting a lamp for them.
Nothing changed. You didn't lose them.
The list draws Wren into the western desert — to a salt-kept ghost town where nothing has been allowed to change in a hundred years, where the dead are still whole, and where a grief that mummifies offers the grieving the one mercy time never will.
The net frays. We mend it together.
The list carries Wren to the top of the world — a frozen-in whaling village on the Arctic coast, sealed off by the sea ice for the whole long dark. Something in the village's great net has spent thirty winters quietly coming undone, whispering to every soul in the dark the kindest, almost-truest lie there is.
No one keeps alone.
The Society's archive is nearly complete — every true name in the world woven into one hand, a leash on every bound thing there is — and they hold Eli at the heart of it, the bait to draw Wren in. So she does the one thing no keeper before her ever did. She does not go alone.
A new sequence · as Shawn Fox
Pacific-Northwest folk-horror — deep woods, old knocks in the dark, and a legend that answers back. Published under the author's Shawn Fox byline.
Don't answer what knocks back.
The first book of the Pinecone Ridge Chronicles — a girl, a dark forest, and a thing among the trees that has learned the shape of a knock. Adapted from the folk-pop rock opera Sasquatch Serenade: The Legend Sings Back.
Where to find them
All titles are available as Kindle eBooks, in Kindle Unlimited, and as cream-paper paperbacks. Buy links go live as each book publishes.