About The Index Series
It’s never about what’s obvious. It’s never about the world, or the time, or the specific place – it’s always about circumstance, happenstance, and how people react to those things. Especially when your job is to keep planets whole.
It’s not a job you take, unless you choose to live it.
The job?
Keep the universe in order…and all it entails.
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The Revival Arc
Book 1: Mages (hard copy) (kindle) (read a sample)(shelfari page)(goodreads)
In a post-war universe, after two centuries of cleaning up after villains, restoring worlds, lives, and hearts, and ending wars and resolving conflicts, three young warriors finally say, “It’s time for a break.” However, they end up with more than what they bargained for as they resurface again in 21st Century New York City, with their break at a screeching halt.
As they hit the ground running and fighting, they confront a series of personal concerns that had become difficult to keep out of the work arena. How far will Shourron II go to ensure the job gets done? What made Rena take the original conflict so personally that she would violate the bylaws that she herself had written? Why does Vannara constantly insist that the galaxy’s greatest criminal is innocent?
Break time’s over.
(special thanks to Kaie Driscol for the synopsis)
Book 2: Secrets (hard copy)(kindle)(nook)(read a sample)(shelfari)(goodreads)
After a tentatively peaceful century, it’s time to celebrate – the old-fashioned way. The Mage Ranking Tournament is back and the renewing numbers of Mages are excited to see who of them is the strongest.
In the wake of the excitement, Rena receives an unlikely visitor.
What Emperor Rhyssius, Arriella’s father, doesn’t expect is an equally unlikely letter.
Some secrets simply cannot stay in the closet.
Book 3: Lineage (hard copy)(kindle)(nook)(read a sample)(shelfari)(goodreads)
It’s the year 3400 in New York City, and Alex Kramer’s company troubles are complicated by the sudden disappearance of his business partner and friend, Jason Watson. Alex immediately suspects foul play, and calls in some otherworldly assistance. No sooner than help arrives, Jason resurfaces with something that could turn the entire concept of Mages on its head.
Just when Arriella, the current High Mage, recovers from her latest mission, she finds out that the skeleton in her father’s closet is, in fact, it’s her sister she had never met, never known, and who is now missing. Her recent whereabouts plunge Arriella right back into New York City, where the intergalactic presence is a fact of life, and discovers that her sister has a bone to pick with quite a few people, including Arriella herself.
The Index: Lineage brings an entirely new twist to the old saying, “Blood is thicker than water”. The Mages, a close group, always value their own, whether or not they got their powers by birth or otherwise. But what happens when someone comes along to redefine the perception of normal in a universe where magic is commonplace?
Sometimes, lineage can be a killer.
Revival (Coming May 13, 2012)
If ever there was an unanswered question about Shourron I, it would be what happened to have made him a killer. He had a leech attached to him, and no one had figured out where it came from, or who had planted it into his body. An investigation had turned up nothing, and case had gone cold. Shourron I had since been plagued by nightmares that seemed to have no explanation, rhyme, or reason, and kept asking the question of “Who am I?” without an answer…
…until now.
Shourron and the rest of the universe finally uncover the truth about his checkered past, with the big picture turning out to be more than anyone had ever given thought to, a picture that spans back to Rena’s youth. A friend must be buried, and it is soon time for another battle, to prevent something that, sixty-three thousand years ago, was not.
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
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The Succession Arc
Book 5: New & Old (Coming June 2013)
Shaken by losses at the Battle of Earth, the Mages come together once again to clean up the destruction that they had caused. However, the universal society around them is much more wary, and in some cases outright hostile to them. How far will some people go to oust those whom they perceive as intruders?
Emperor Rhyssius, gravely injured in his last battle, is faced with his mortality and is forced to make choices that he never thought that he had to make. Emperor of over six hundred years, well-loved by his sector’s citizens, he overcame his enemies and eventually made them into allies.
Some grudges linger longer than others, and the injured Emperor is about to find it out the hard way.
Book 6: Cause & Effect (In Progress)
Arriella and Kataria have to figure out the matter of succession to the throne of Rovillus. Much to their surprise, Morrhia resurfaces to stake a claim in her home world’s future, and takes her twin daughters to court…and she has the law on her side, with a con artist in the background. Who will rule Rovillus following Rhyssius?
Elsewhere, a killer is lurking, waiting for the perfect moment to unseat Arriella from her station as the High Mage. Corwin Jacobs is investigating the case, and finds some evidence that points to the guilt of an old friend long gone.
How strong can evidence get?
Book 7: Action & Reaction (pending)
