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.

Secret Love

I’m about to turn around when I feel him and everything stops. Ahead, Piers is there, I know it and the knowledge almost chokes me. I see him emerge from between two buildings, long, gray coat hanging to his feet, lean shoulders back, blond hair over one shoulder, falling in rippling silk to his knees. Those gray eyes greet me with joy, his lean hands already reaching out to me.

He turns, heads my way from the other side of the street. Coming closer. My lips are turning into a smile, my heart beginning to race, even as a mind touches mine.

Zoe. I close off immediately at the sound of my grandmother’s cool curiosity. Where are you?

Zoe Helios is a powerful Oracle, from a long line of women dedicated to interpreting the future for the good of all. But her encounter with handsome Steam Union sorcerer, Piers Southway, has led her to believe everything she’s been taught about the role her family plays is a lie. Searching for the truth, she must avoid the attention of her grandmother’s lover, Liander Belaisle, while rewriting the visions she’s had her entire life about the woman she knew as the Dark One. 

A woman named Sydlynn Hayle.

Helios Oracles

The fire flares, hitting me like a slap across the face as I pull free of the vision to the sound of weeping. My mother's face is in her hands, her shoulders shaking. She looks so tiny, so vulnerable, I can't resist going to her, putting my arms around her, whispering to her soothing sounds until she stills.


"All this time," she chokes against my shoulder as she embraces me at last, "I believed you would be the end of all of us, Zoe. But I couldn't bear to harm you." She shivers as she pulls away and looks up into my eyes. "Every vision I had led to the same place-no matter how much I wanted to change it-to you destroying the Universe." She steps away from me, both hands wiping angrily at tears on her face. "Now I see he was manipulating me, too. Though how, I don't know."


Chapter 23: Sanctuary