Welcome to my Shadow Towns World, a world of magic, mystery, and danger. Four of my series are in this world, and there are overlaps, cameos, and blurred lines. The rules for these worlds are uniform, and though each series focuses on a different main character, there are connections that will make the series feel familiar.
You don’t have to read any particular series in order, and no one series depends on another. But if you like an expanded world, here’s your place to dive in.
Moonshadow Bay: One month before January Jaxson turns 41, her husband ditches her for a trophy wife. Adding insult to injury, he steals the business she helped build, and kicks her out during the holidays. So when her best friend Ari suggests she move back to Moonshadow Bay—a quirky, magical town near Bellingham WA—January decides to take the plunge. Born into a family of witches, January accepts a job at Conjure Ink, a paranormal investigations website. The job’s right up her alley but she doubts that everything reported to Conjure Ink really exists. That is, until she’s sent out on her first case. January quickly discovers that in Moonshadow Bay, nothing is as it seems on the surface, and danger lurks in the moonlight.
At 43, Maisy Tripwater has always been a matchmaker. And not just a matchmaker, but an excellent one. Unfortunately, this leads to her boss firing her. The company’s been losing money since they hired her, because she always finds the right person and that means the clients then no longer need help. Just as she’s trying to figure out what to do, her house goes up in flames. So Maisy packs up Miss P., her chonky Maine Coon, and moves back to Midnight Point, a small island community off the coast of Port Townsend, where she opens Married At First Bite, a magical matchmaking service.
Sometimes, being a magical matchmaker is like being a referee…
I’m Marquette Sanders, and I used to be one of the top agents for the Crown Magika. But an unexpected accident sidelines me and my world turns upside down. Now, I’m living in the shadow town of Terameth Lake, Washington, where magic and mayhem rule, and spirits from the past are as powerful as the volcano that looms over the town.
Welcome to Whisper Hollow, where spirits walk among the living and the lake never gives up her dead.
Kerris Fellwater, a spirit shaman, is summoned back to Whisper Hollow, her home town, to take up her grandmother’s post. When she meets Bryan, the wolf shifter who is to be her protector and guardian, together they begin delving into the secrets of Whisper Hollow, and the dark forces that surround it, and make it the magical town it is.
The Placement of All Shadow Towns:
