The Crone Wars

She’s sixty years old and destined to save the world … just as soon as she finds her reading glasses.

Claire Emerson has spent a lifetime making herself smaller for other people.

Good wife. Good mother. Invisible woman.

Now, on her sixtieth birthday, she’s finally ready to start living for herself.

The universe, however, has other plans. Overnight, it delivers new magickal powers with the same stability as her raging hormones, a cranky gargoyle, an overprotective wolf-shifter, and a front-row seat in a centuries-old war against an ancient god—with Claire cast as the newest combatant.

Claire wants no part in any of it. She has no training, no control over the magick rampaging through her, and definitely no interest in fighting monsters that most of humanity will never even see.

Until those monsters come for her family—and she has no choice but to become the powerful Crone she’s destined to be. Or die trying.

Becoming Crone is Book 1 in the Crone Wars series—a fun, fast-paced urban fantasy where turning sixty isn’t the end of the story. It’s the beginning of war.

She’s running out of time. And so are the Crones.

Claire Emerson is up against the clock. After learning on her sixtieth birthday that she’s one of five Crones destined to save the world from dark Mages, she’s been desperately trying to acquire the lifetime of magic she missed out on.

But the Mages aren’t waiting, and when one of the other Crones ends up on Claire’s doorstep—wounded and unconscious—Claire knows she’s out of time.

Leaving the safety of her warded house, she goes in search of the remaining Crones … only to find them under siege by the Mages and the nearly indestructible monster they control. And without control over her powerful elemental magic, she has no idea how to rescue them.

Can Claire harness her powers in time to help her fellow Crones defeat the Mages—or will her efforts bring even greater disaster?

Once, there was power in her magick. Now, she must find magick in her power.

Claire Emerson has lost her magick—and with it, her place among the Crones. It should spell the end of her involvement in their centuries-old war against the dark god, Morok, but it can’t. Because Claire knows something the others don’t—Morok has become an imposter in the Crones’ midst, and their destruction is imminent.

To stop the dark god’s nefarious plan, Claire will have to find her missing powers. That’s the easy part. Getting past Morok’s monsters in time to save the Crones is going to be a little more difficult. Especially when she comes face to face with Morok himself.

Will Claire’s powers be enough to defeat a god and save her companions—and the world?

She thought she’d won … but the war has only just started.

When Claire Emerson imprisoned Morok in the Camlann fragment of the world, it should have been the end of the dark god. But when Lucan, her protector, is accidentally trapped along with the god, Claire is determined to save him.

She’ll have to travel through the treacherous god realm—alone—to get to him. But that’s just the first hurdle. Because the magick of an ancient Crone is hidden in Camlann, and if Morok discovers it, he’ll have enough power to break free and carry out his plan to destroy Claire’s entire world and all that she loves.

Can Claire rescue Lucan and find the Crone magic before Morok does? Or will she have to choose between the shifter she’s come to love and the power she never asked for in the first place?

With great powers come great repercussions

In the aftermath of her victory over the dark god Morok, Claire Emerson is ready for some well-earned peace and quiet. But tranquility evaporates when an ancient god arrives on her doorstep demanding sanctuary.

The god blames Claire’s battle with Morok for the destruction of his world—and more gods follow in his wake, bringing chaos with them and turning Claire’s entire world upside down. Again. To make matters worse, she discovers that Morok survived their battle and is bent on revenge.

Now, with her magick spread increasingly thin as she tries to keep a bunch of unruly deities in line and find a way to return them to the Otherworld, Claire is thrown again into a war she thought she’d already won.

And this time, Morok hasn’t come alone.