As inquisitive as Eloise Bridgerton, as lonely as Enola Holmes, and as sharp a sleuth as Lady Holmes herself, Miss Maddie Hatter uses her fashion reporting as cover for investigative journalism. Armed with her wits, her parasol, and her clockwork bird, this amateur detective hunts a legendary gemstone, trails a cunning con-woman from Egypt to Europe & beyond, and goes undercover against a penny-pinching airship heiress who never lets a good grudge die.“*A jewel of a story filled wi...

A conniving con-woman, an eccentric explorer, & airships!Miss Maddie Hatter, renegade daughter of a powerful Steamlord, is scraping a precarious living as a fashion reporter when the story of a lifetime falls into her lace-gloved hands. Baron Bodmin, an adventurer with more failed quests than fan mail, vanishes on the trail of a legendary diamond studded mask. Then the baron's mistress flees too, with a handbag full of stolen jewelry and Maddie's most secret papers...

In a time when supernatural beings used humans as playthings, Shira fights to survive. Guardian warriors can only take the promised bride of a patriarch’s son so far, until she must struggle on alone. But is she alone? Plagued by painful memories of her mother’s death, Shira is now challenged to face a dangerous and uncertain future. A future that offers little more than abandonment, slavery and worse, her own doubts—but face it she must. There is a place, one place that is not governed by...

“Great characters, vivid descriptions, fashion, food and intrigue.”“Fabulous 3rd in a series that’s already collected 2 Aurora nominations & an ‘Alberta Book of the Year’ win.”A gig at an exclusive Venetian costume house gives fashion writer Maddie first peek at fabulous Carnevale costumes & a chance to interview a secretive inventor. But foreign spies, kidnappings, & 2 old enemies steer her trip into a desperate moonlight dash through the fabled city’s canals.“Great charac...

****2018 Alberta Book of the Year & Prix Aurora Finalist*****A mysterious message from a midnight duelist sends fashion reporter Maddie Hatter to New York's finest parasol dueling academy, where she foils a daring daylight kidnapping & ends up undercover in a Gilded Age mansion. Soon she's up to her lace gloves in social teas, industrial intrigues, and irrepressible street urchins. But when she comes face to beard with a powerful figure from her past, everything sh...

"... all the cunning, intrigue, dark humour and darker deeds anyone could want, perfectly plotted and sublimely rendered!" —Iona Whishaw, award-winning author of the Lane Winslow MysteriesThe deadly games people play are on full display in fifteen short stories in the third anthology from Sisters in Crime—Canada West.Old friends feature in several, such as "On The Internet Nobody Knows You're a Dog," where a musician turns PI to track down a stalke...

2018 Alberta Book of the YearPrix Aurora FinalistFoiling the kidnapping of an industrial heiress lands Maddie an undercover bodyguard job in a Gilded Age NYC mansion. As rival powers scheme to steal the homeowner's fabulous one-of-a-kind clockwork gauge, a man from Maddie’s murky past arrives as a feted guest. Is he an ally, an enemy, or the mastermind behind the whole dastardly plot?***“Spirited heroines, secret identities, engaging orphans, dueling...

"Fabulous 3rd in a series that's already collected 2 Aurora nominations & an 'Alberta Book of the Year' win."Maddie Hatter's third Adventure takes her to 1899 Venice. With her friend Lady Serephene, she penetrates an exclusive Carnevale Costume Atelier for sneak peeks at the season's most extravagant disguises. Soon Serephene's flirting madly with a Scottish inventor in his airship laboratory…until he and his fabulous new fabric are targeted by sp...

Why should being murdered keep a girl from living it up a little?When Jerry Powell inherits a torn, bloodstained book of poetry he has no idea that it contains the soul of Anastasia Romanova; but when he accidentally awakens her ghost, he discovers that death hasn’t dulled her sense of mischief and joy for life.Between driving across the continent to start a new job in a new city, fending off a shady Russian antiquities collector, and ignoring his worsening migrain...

Society was rocked when the Cathedral appointed Allegra, Contessa of Marsina, to negotiate the delicate peace talks between the rebelling mage slaves and the various states. Not only was she a highborn mage, she was a nonbeliever and a vocal objector against the supposed demonic origins of witchcraft. Demons weren’t real, she’d argued, and therefore the subjection of mages was unlawful.That was all before the first assassination attempt. That was before Allegra heard the demonic sh...

At sixteen Kara Fonti still has no magic. But Mage Guild, the most powerful of all the Guilds in Tregella, has a use for her – they will force her to bear children for men who do have magic. Arabella Fonti, to protect her own status within the guild, pushes her daughter to do the unthinkable – run away to live outside the guild system.But unguilded are not welcome in Tregella, especially on the magical chain of islands of the capital Rillidi. In increasing danger of being arrested ...

EX-DEBUTANTE. SINGLE MOTHER. TREASURE HUNTER.Disowned and left penniless for getting pregnant as a teen, former celebutante Olivia Talbot was willing to do whatever it took to provide for her daughter…including become a treasure hunter. Since the Pulse hit, activating relics of legend, there are plenty of artifacts to be had—not to mention wealthy clients willing to pay top dollar for them.Just as her daughter’s private school tuition cheque bounces, Livi gets an offer that...