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The Big Cinch by Kathy L. Brown (The Sean Joye Investigations Series, Book 3)
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The Big Cinch embeds readers in a magic-laced St. Louis, also known as Mound City. Once the home of the indigenous peoples’ Mississippian ancestors, little evidence of their civilization survives in 1924. Just the popular Piasa monster image remains, invoked to sell everything from plows to the civic elite’s pageantry.
Sean Joye is a disillusioned young veteran of 1922’s Irish Civil War. Ignoring his magical insights since childhood, Sean hopes to escape fae attention, forget his assassin past, and make a clean new life in St. Louis but finds himself embroiled in the activities of an elite, magic-dabbling family. The youngest daughter, Lillian, is eager to share her secrets—as well as her bedroom—with Sean, but he falls hard for Lillian’s fiancé, a WWI flying ace with a few secrets of his own.
Sean asks the wrong questions about a kidnapped toddler and missing Mississippian artifacts. Soon he is on the run, a suspect in his lover’s bludgeoning and a tycoon’s murder. The city’s powerbrokers protect their interests with every resource at their command, from homophobic rumor to police brutality to dark magic. Can Sean tap the supernatural abilities he’s long rejected in time to protect the innocent and save his own skin?
The Resurrectionist: A Novella (Sean Joye Investigations series, Book 1) by Kathy L. Brown
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A supernatural noir novella. All hell breaks loose when a jailhouse preacher aims for heavenly escape.
Sean Joye is a fae-touched young veteran of 1923’s Irish Civil War. He wants nothing more than to start a clean, new life in America, free of supernatural misadventures and shoot-on-sight orders.
He takes what he thinks is an easy job as bodyguard for a St. Louis judge, driving him to Missouri’s infamous state penitentiary to witness an execution. The appointed day is clear and fine. A perfect day for a hanging.
Yet as soon as they arrive at the prison, Sean realizes his back is up over something. Maybe it’s just the summer heat or Sean’s memories of his own time as a prisoner of war, but psychic premonitions of trouble are more likely. He soon finds himself a pawn in a jailhouse preacher’s mountain-magic-fueled escape attempt.
Sean must rise to the occasion, evading rioting convicts, trigger-happy guards, and a preternatural cyclone to rescue both the judge and an unjustly condemned prisoner from the resurrectionist.
Water of Life: A Novelette (Sean Joye Investigations series, Book 2) by Kathy L. Brown
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A supernatural noir mystery novelette. Did faeries spirit away the young moonshiner?
Sean Joye can’t help but wonder yet he hopes for a more reasonable explanation. Fleeing to America in 1923, Sean aims to put Ireland’s civil war, his assassin past, and faerie attention behind him. But his one-time lover, Caleb, is missing. As Sean treks through a November ice storm in search of his friend, the forest itself bristles with fae ill intent, and a strange old mountain woman would just as soon shoot Sean as feed him squirrel stew. Calamity reigns unless he cracks the secret of Otter Springs and its water life.
Wolfhearted: A Novella by Kathy L. Brown
I love shifter stories and I really enjoyed this captivating and interesting story. The storyline and characters are interesting, and I like them. I also enjoyed the suspense, intrigue and twists and turns in this story. I look forward to reading more from this writer.
Kathleen, an Amazon Reviewer.
The author reads Wolfhearted‘s first chapter, here, on YouTube.
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Runa, alone, survives the massacre.
But a traitorous mage has captured her king’s essence—his vital energy, linked to a long line of wolf-shifter rulers. Unless Runa can recover that power by dawn, the mage will command not only her, but also her kindred. Yet Runa is the weakest of the pack. Her quest will fail unless she finds help, and the dark winter woods is deserted but for a small dog and a young soldier.
Prince Paolo is eager for adventure and stirred to action by Runa’s ordeal. As they learn to respect each other’s unique skills, attraction blossoms. But the mage is a trusted figure from Paolo’s past. And he’s filled his lair with marvelous steam-powered machinery and ambitious plans for the prince’s future. Paolo can’t help but have second thoughts about Runa’s story and must choose between his promise to Runa and the life he’d hardly dared to envision.
Can Runa recover the king’s essence and protect her kindred? The answers lie in the wolf’s very heart.
“Welcome to Earthport Prime: A Self-Guided Tour.” A Short Story by Kathy L. Brown.
In the St. Louis Writers Guild Anthology Love Letters to St. Louis. Shop for paperback and ebook from Amazon, here.
Explore the amenities of Earth’s first spaceport while you learn the fascinating history of St. Louis from its French colonial days to a major intergalactic travel hub.
“The Haunted Guild.” A Short Story by Kathy L. Brown.
In the St. Louis Writers Guild Members Anthology 2024. Shop for paperback and ebook from Amazon, here.
“Bata Scoir.” A Short Story by Kathy L. Brown.
“Bata Scoir” in Bards and Sages Quarterly (October 2011)
“Also”Bata Scoir” is also available in the St. Louis Writers Guild 100th Anniversary Anthology, which includes stories from Kathy’s fellow guild members.
When a strange waif slips into his classroom, an English schoolmaster finds curing his Irish pupils of their native language a bit more difficult than he ever imagined.
“The Djinn In The Wheel.” A Short Story by Kathy L. Brown.
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An easily-distracted potter seeks marital advice from an unlikely source. Kathy L. Brown contributed one story to this anthology.
Free Stories and Poems By Kathy L. Brown Available Online.
My out-of-print short story, “At The Old Gallows Tree,” can be found in my newsletter’s 2020 All Fools Day Issue. “The Angel’s Share,” a Sean Joye short story is currently exclusive to the email subscription list. Both are accessible when you sign up for the email subscription list.
“Catwoman” (Poetry) in Hippocrene, 2007, page 27
Modern medicine helps woman access the mysteries of ancient Egypt.
A Haitian tour guide and an American widow devise a fitting tribute to her late husband.
This page last updated March 12, 2024.