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The first three chapters of Weird Magic, the new Lia de Croissets book (coming soon), are now available on the Books page of my website! https://karenchance.com/weird-magic/

Junk Magic
A Lia de Croisset’s novel

Half werewolf Lia de Croissets is a member of the War Mage Corps, the police branch of the world’s leading magical organization, the Silver Circle. She’s an instructor assigned to train new recruits, a job considered to be significantly tougher than combat, especially right now. There is a war going on in the supernatural world, and the other side has discovered a deadly new tactic.

Popular street drugs have been laced with a potent narcotic known as Punch or fey wine. An import from Faerie, the wine has been known to bring out latent magical abilities in humans, but this version does much more than that. It is so strong that it is drawing forth dangerous talents that were long ago deliberately weeded out of the magical gene pool.

Someone is making monsters out of regular people and turning them loose on an unsuspecting and very unprepared world. The Corps cannot afford to fight on two fronts at once, so Lia gets a new class: one made up of the only people who might be able to counter these latest threats. It remains to be seen if a group of sullen, disaffected magical outlaws can come together to contain an ancient plague before the whole world gets sick.

Click here to read sample chapters of Junk Magic.

I’d never seen a bunch of apex predators look so nervous.
“It’s fine,” I told the nearest, who was getting help with his bow tie from another predator, only this one looked like it.
The first was named Jace, a young Were with milk chocolate skin, a buzz cut, and a strong preference for baggy jeans and tank tops, except for today, when he’d donned a tux. It had been tailored to fit him, yet somehow didn’t. Or maybe it was his nervousness that was communicating itself through the clothes.

Click here to read sample chapters of Weird Magic.

Cleaning off my desktop and posting a few old projects for those who enjoy that sort of thing. :-)

Cassie vs. Aeslinn from Ignite the Fire: Incendiary.

John Pritkin.

Cyrus from the Lia de Croisset’s series.

Lia from the Lia de Croisset’s series.

To go with the Dory pic, I thought I’d do a Louis-Cesare. Still not exact, but pretty close to how I see him. :-)

Been playing around with Midjourney’s new video feature. It isn’t perfect, but damn, it’s pretty good! Here’s the best I could do with Cassie and Pritkin from Claimed by Shadow. I think it’s kind of hilarious that he hangs back a little to watch her leave. Especially as I didn’t tell it to do that!

“Mircea must have heard us come in, but he continued what he was doing. He stood with his back to us, the candlelight on his bare skin causing his muscles to fall into sharp relief. He’d washed the river gunk out of his hair and now he threw it back, the water droplets shimmering in the light. The scene looked for all the world like a really good romance novel cover.” –Cassie Palmer, Embrace the Night

“One of the ghosts knows where the passage is!” I told Pritkin. He looked surprised and I scowled. Just because I didn’t know seven ways to kill a guy with my elbow didn’t make me completely useless.”–Cassie Palmer, Embrace the Night

“I knew I was in trouble as soon as I saw the obituary. The fact that it had my name on it was sort of a clue.” –Cassie Palmer, Touch the Dark.