Dragon Eye, PI

“Dragon Eye, P.I.” (Firestorm of Dragons, coming 2008 from Dragon Moon Press) When a Faerie princess hires Vern to find a missing necklace, Vern figures he’s finally on the road to easy living. But the necklace’s amber beads contain sacred relics of the major religions of the Faerie and Mundane worlds, including one that may be worth the return of some of Vern’s lost dragon abilities. Can Vern retrieve the necklace before the Unseliegh sorcerer uses it to destroy the gap between the Faerie and Mundane worlds--and can Vern resist the temptation of taking the necklace for himself?

“Magic, Mensa and Mayehm.” (series in The Prairie Dawg) Vern and his partner, the Church Mage Sister Grace, may be private investigators, but they are still obedient to the Faerie Catholic Church, so when their bishop asks them to babysit a bunch of Faerie scholars at the Mundane Mensa World Gathering--in Disneyworld, no less--they’ve no choice but to take the job. Ancient feuds, inter-species misunderstandings, and the search for the bull that isn’t make their visit to the Magic Kingdom less than the idyllic experience promised in the brochure. Vern may have the wisdom of ages, but it may take the combined power of Mensa to figure this one out!

“Amateurs.” (unpublished) A hapless woman hired Vern to deliver a message for her to fulfill a geas. The payment--a dragon stone, a thing of magic and beauty forged at the beginning of time. What seems a simple job for tempting pay quickly becomes another STW (Save the World) as the message was a declaration of war between Pixie clans fighting for territory in Mundane Los Lagos. Vern thinks he can handle it, yet when his “client” turns out to be the Egyptian Goddess of War, it will take more than careful scheming to work things out. Can he and Grace prevail? And how does all of this tie into the Biblical Plague of Locusts? When it comes to the power of God, all the rest is the work of amateurs. 

“Greater Treasures”  (unpublished) When Sister Grace is critically wounded by poison dart while trailing a man who would lead her to a client’s brother, Vern searches for the antidote. His search will lead him through the tangled lies of his and Grace’s client, the scheming of the Neo-Nazis, and the legend of the Lance of Longinus, which pierced the side of Jesus and is said to have supernatural powers. Can he solve the mystery of the Lance--and will he sacrifice Grace’s life to do it?

"Christmas Spirits" (unpublished)  'Tis the season to be jolly, but it's Sister Grace's first Christmas in the Mundane world and all the holiday hype leaves her stressed and confused rather than joyful.  And if that weren't enough, malignant spirits threaten the life of the local Scrooge in true Christmas Carol fashion.  Together, she and Vern must discover the Mundane spirit of Christmas while battling Christmas spirits. 

Migrants, Magic, and Murder (novel in progress; looking for a print home): When the Gap opens between the Faerie world and the Mundane, Vern finds himself called to emigrate and do God’s will there. Nonetheless, despite the American president’s great talk of welcoming diversity, it seems dragons were not what he had in mind. As Vern struggles to find acceptance--and the magical Green card that will let him find employment and a legitimate place in Mundane society--he also becomes involved in a bigger struggle of magic vs. technology and greed vs. responsibility that begins with a mysterious murder of an unpopular migrant worker and ends with plague, failing crops, and a magically possessed field bent on revenge.

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