New Release Alert: 'The Soul Stealer' Now Available on Amazon

I'm excited to announce that The Soul Stealer, the fifth and final book of The Geomancer’s Apprentice series, is now available in ebook format on Amazon and Amazon Kindle Unlimited.

The paperback version should be available in early May.

Here's the blurb: 

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How do you fight a phantom from a nightmare?

Feng shui practitioners Junie Soong and Joe Tham are still dealing with the fallout from their last case. They are forced at the same time to work for the secretive benefactor who helped them when all seemed lost.

Junie and Joe discover their benefactor is involved in something nefarious. Even worse, Junie has to fend off a mysterious figure who’s stepped straight out of her recurring nightmares.

It isn’t long before the underdog geomancers find themselves caught up in something from the past that could have shocking ramifications for the future. Could something that happened more than 250 years ago hold the key to who killed Joe’s father?

This is the explosive finale to the urban fantasy series featuring Asian magic and mysticism, and terrifying monsters from Asian folklore and mythology.  

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This means the series is now complete. And that makes me sad.

I have lived and breathed these characters—Junie, Joe, Hu, Noah, Devon—for the last five years. They are old friends at this point. I’ll miss thinking about them when I wake up. I’ll miss dreaming up new adventures for them when I go to sleep.

When I first got the idea of a struggling geomancer and his apprentice, I visualized the books as a series of novellas. I wrote the first two before I decided Junie and Joe deserved full novels of their own.

Of the books, The Soul Stealer was especially hard to write because it had to wrap up so many things. The end also had to be one worthy of my underdog heroes. As those of you who’ve stayed with the books know, they are for the most part ordinary people, called upon to undertake extraordinary feats.

I have enjoyed writing these five books very, very much. And I thank you from the bottom of my heart for reading them. I hope you had a good time. I hope I made your hair stand now and then.

What comes next? A new series is already percolating in my brain. I’m not sure yet where it will go, except I know it will revolve around a small town this time, rather than a big city.

Stay tuned.

A deleted scene from The Soul Stealer is available to my newsletter subscribers. Please check it out here.

'The Soul Stealer' Is Available Starting Friday, April 26

I’m excited to announce that the ebook version of The Soul Stealer will be available for sale on Amazon—and to read on Kindle Unlimited—starting Friday, April 26!

I haven’t done a pre-order before, and I decided not to do one for this book. It’s also going to take me longer to get the paperback version out, so stay tuned on that.

This is the fifth, and final, book of The Geomancer’s Apprentice series. I’ll say more about that in the coming days.

In the meantime, here’s an excerpt to whet your appetite. The photo below shows the famous Washington, D.C., neighborhood in which the scene takes place. Can you guess where it is?

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Something landed on the lid of a garbage can with a fleshy thud. Joe blinked. Beside him, Junie nudged her glasses higher. The newcomer was jet-black, with glowing red eyes. It blended so well with the dark that Joe couldn’t easily gauge its size or its shape. It smelled worse than the alley.

The creature jumped off the can. They held their breaths as the black mound inched closer. It paused just shy of the streetlamp’s cone of light. The eerie eyes blinked. Without warning, the thing darted forward. Its mouth closed on the trap’s steel mesh. Metal clinked against cement as it dragged the cage into the shadows.

“Screw this.” Junie dropped the staff and grabbed the large trash bag in which Joe had transported the trap. She sprang to her feet and rushed at the creature, holding the bag in front of her. The thing released the trap and scurried between two garbage cans.

Joe winced when she knocked over the cans in her effort to corral the creature. The metal bins made an awful racket when they tipped over and spilled their contents. The creature ran out into the alley, giving Joe his first good look at it.