Fiction

When weaving words into wider realities, I gravitate toward spiritual and emotional healing resolution. That inclination prevails even in the dark tale of my Stoneslayer paranormal fiction series.
Stoneslayer poster.

Stoneslayer

His power seeks to destroy it all. Can she rise up to stop him?

Based on the author’s past lives, the Stoneslayer paranormal fiction series charts a lost world of political scandals, explosive family secrets, and the reincarnation of a line of extraordinary women who challenge the cataclysmic rampage of an ancient, demonic foe.

Book One – Scandal

Scandal by Candace Lynn Talmadge book cover.
New Azgard Map.

Lt. Helen Andros is a mixed-race outcast in Azgard. Saved from death when her true parentage comes to light, she now faces the outrage of the overclass, the lethal hostility of the mighty Temple of Kronos — and a powerful, high-ranked father she neither knows nor trusts.

Steering a volatile personal journey with her stranger parent, Helen is stalked. Will a hidden menace — the deadly Stoneslayer — plunder the mysterious green gem she inherited from her mother? Will political necessity bind her in marriage to a man she does not love and who cannot love her back?

Helen found it easy to look death in the eyes. Dying was effortless. It was living that had always been a struggle. Why had she, orphaned and despised, ever bothered to try so hard? What had been the point of battling every inch of the way for a medical degree? To this miserable end?

The strange red glow filled her inner vision. Giving up! That’s more like it. We will meet soon on the other side, and you will suffer for depriving me all these years of what is rightfully mine.