I’m an international, multiple award-winning author with a passion for the voices in my head. As a singer, songwriter, independent filmmaker and improv teacher and performer, my life has always been about creating and sharing what I create with others. Now that my dream to write for a living is a reality, with over a hundred titles in happy publication and no end in sight, I live in beautiful Prince Edward Island, Canada, with my giant cats, pug overlord and overlady and my Gypsy Vanner gelding, Fynn.

SYDLYNN HAYLE IS BACK in an all-new series!

Enters the Phoenix

A burst of fire blazed in the corner of my eye, jerking me around toward the back door. I barely remembered moving, feet flying over the hardwood, hands slamming against the glass and throwing it open, hurtling out into the dew-wet grass.

Fire climbed from a curled up ball of humanity, near the edge of the hedge row leading to the park on the other side of our property. I staggered to a halt, power reflexively tightening around me, ready to attack, when the figure unbent, half sitting, half lying on the ground, her face turned up toward me.

“RUN!” Her scream pierced me to my soul, froze my magic in place before it could harm her. Flames burned her, devoured her, dark hair and eyes on fire, but she managed to stagger to her feet, eyes pure gold as she gestured toward me. “Sydlynn Hayle, if you love your family, run and don’t look back!”

Things have never been better for Sydlynn Hayle and her family, living out their lives in Wilding Springs, Pennsylvania. Her battles and struggles have come to a halt, her two young children happy and well-adjusted, marriage to her beloved Quaid all she could ever ask for. But when a woman of flame appears to her and warns her of impending danger, Syd understands at last the quiet she’s enjoyed has all been a smoke screen, hiding the truth. Her old enemies have returned to destroy her and everything her family has fought for, with repercussions that could threaten the very Universe.

So much for happily ever after.

Hayle Coven Destinies

Of course. "Belaisle's endgame," I said. "And just like him to think he could play god."


"While I'm certain," Max said, "Dark Brother has other ideas for all that power."


"Like?" My brain was far too scrambled to put two and two together and get any food group but purple.


"I don't know," Max said. "But it's likely he'll try to use it to break the barrier between Universes in a way he can control them both." The big drach paused, brow furrowing. "You must know, it's highly unlikely Belaisle is in full command of himself any longer and probably hasn't been for some time."


It might explain his cleverness, even outside his cheating by using the Oracles to see the future.


"I'm supposed to mourn his poor, unfortunate soul?" Not in my lifetime. And I planned to live forever.


"No," Max said. "Just a warning. If he carries part of Dark Brother's consciousness, we are dealing with a vast mind capable of anything."


Chapter 39: Belaisle's Endgame