We had run.We had adapted.And when our magic came back, we changed course again. Hiding instead of running, knowing that we needed to remain hidden from the Collective. Knowing that our lives, our freedom, depended on it.Then the sorcerer showed up, drained and disoriented. And when my past came quickly following him, I had to make another choice.Fight or flight.Continue to deny the power that resided in my blood, in my DNA. Remain perpetually caught between being Amp5 and Emma Johnson.Or face my demons.————————-Demons and DNA by Meghan Ciana Doidge is the first novel (75k) in the Amplifier series, which is set in the Adept Universe along with the Dowser, the Oracle, and the Reconstructionist series.Reading order of the Amplifier Series:The Amplifier Protocol (Amplifier 0)Close to Home (Amplifier 0.5)Demons and DNA (Amplifier 1)

We had chosen our place, etching our lives into a new land. Then we had defended that land when called upon to do so. And we'd won. We'd maintained our freedom.But magic attracts magic.As they say.So when the sorcerers showed up, holding my recent past hostage — along with a future I had dreamed I might build — it was just as expected. In fact, I might have been getting just a little bored playing at being Emma Johnson.I might not believe in bonds fortified by fate, or in love at first sight for that matter. But magic, it seemed, had other ideas.Bonds and Broken Dreams is the second book in the Amplifier series, which is set in the same universe as the Dowser, Oracle, and Reconstructionist series.The Amplifier Protocol (Amplifier 0)Close to Home (Amplifier 0.5)Demons and DNA (Amplifier 1)Bonds and Broken Dreams (Amplifier 2)

I was a dragon. Dragons didn't run from any situation. Not even a dragon disguised as a witch. Well ... at least not from any situation that involved the archive or my duty, because apparently I fled before anything even remotely personal. Including surprise double dates.A masked gala. A solstice celebration with the werewolves. Broken relics and doorways leading not only to other realms, other mythical and magical creatures, but to other possible futures. For me. And maybe even for Kellan.And, well ... that's all just another day at the office for me.Though my witch disguise really wasn't going to hold up for much longer. Because even though I'd accepted my role as head curator at the magical archive of the National Museum of Ireland, and all the duties that came with being the Archivist of the Modern World, apparently I didn't like the restrictions that came along with that. Because I couldn't build the life I truly wanted — the dream unfurling in...

They called me an amplifier. And they had bred me, raised me, and trained me to be a killer with preternatural precision. I was capable of taking, holding, and transferring power that wasn't my own with a simple touch. Skin-to-skin contact. Along with four others of my generation, I could infiltrate any magical organization, extracting whoever or whatever I'd been ordered to extricate. Then I could destroy all evidence of our passing presence.They had made me. They directed me. Controlled me.Then they tried to kill me.————————-The Amplifier Protocol by Meghan Ciana Doidge is the prequel novella (40k) for the Amplifier series, which is set in the Adept Universe along with the Dowser, the Oracle, and the Reconstructionist series. It also includes a BONUS novelette (16k), Close to Home (Amplifier 0.5).Reading order:The Amplifier Protocol (Amplifier 0)Close to Home (Amplifier 0.5)

I knew that opening the letter from the sorcerer Azar would have deadly consequences.So we had prepared.We'd planned.We knew we might have to defend ourselves, our freedom. And that I might finally get a chance to exact the revenge I kept telling myself I wasn't interested in exacting.What we didn't know was that we'd find ourselves hosting a dysfunctional family reunion — the kind where everyone tries to kill someone at least once over dinner.Sorcerers and witches.With me in the middle.Mediating.I could wipe a small city from the face of the earth. I could vanquish a horde of demons with only two shortswords. I could infiltrate a magically fortified compound without detection, stand against black witches, and defy even those capable of manipulating minds.What I couldn't do was mediate a family squabble that stretched back decades, replete with kidnapping, magical coercion, and rape.Or I couldn't mediate with...

This bundle contains the following short stories set in the Reconstructionist Series:The Graveyard Kiss (Reconstructionist 0.5)Dawn Bytes (Reconstructionist 1.5)An Uncut Key (Reconstructionist 2.5))To avoid spoilers the ideal reading order is:The Graveyard Kiss (Reconstructionist 0.5)Catching Echoes (Reconstructionist 1)Dawn Bytes (Reconstructionist 1.5)Tangled Echoes (Reconstructionist 2)An Uncut Key (Reconstructionist 2.5)Unleashing Echoes (Reconstructionist 3)The Reconstructionist Series is apart of the Adept Universe, which also includes the Dowser and Oracle Series by Meghan Ciana Doidge. While it is not necessary to read all three series, in order to avoid spoilers the ideal reading order of the Adept Universe is as follows:Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic (Dowser 1)Trinkets, Treasures, and Other Bloody Magic (Dowser 2)Treasures, Demons, and Other Black Magic (Dowser 3)I See Me (Oracle 1)Shadows, Maps, and Other Ancient Magic (Dowser 4)Maps, Artifacts, and Other...

Three days. That was all the reprieve we got before one of the Five showed up, injured and on the run. The snowstorm that had encased the property, as well as stifled the town, hadn't even melted away.That wounded prey led our newest adversary directly to me, to Christopher. Inconvenient timing, but not unexpected.It was the betrayal forcing me to stay my hand against that adversary that shocked me. Betrayal from the least likely of sources.Or so I would have thought.But that didn't change who I was, and what I would do to preserve a life I loved, people I cherished.I wasn't so easily broken. But that didn't mean I couldn't be hurt, couldn't be pulled apart. Unraveled.And if I managed to put the pieces back together? I wasn't certain who I'd be on the other side of it all. Friend? Lover? Killer? Emma or Amp5?Or was it possible to be all those things at once?————————-

With two of the Five compromised, I had no choice but to go on the offensive. Hiding out — even if I was pretty much in plain sight these days — in the tiny corner of peace we'd carved for ourselves in the Pacific Northwest was no longer an option.But the person or persons responsible for dragging me away from the life I'd fought to build, to protect? Well, they would regret every moment that I had to divert my attention toward them and away from what I truly wanted. They would regret forcing me to once again become the cold-hearted, sociopathic, genetically constructed magical abomination they'd bred and trained me to be.The Collective was already done.I'd destroyed them more than eight years ago.But apparently, some of those who'd survived now needed a reminder of their demise.When it was done, I would walk away with everything that was mine to have and to hold. And what I couldn't outright destroy? I would absorb or claim for...

I'd been compromised, then turned against those I loved. But no one controlled me. No one took anything I didn't willingly offer. Not for long, anyway.If the elves wanted a war, I'd bring it. The instruments of assassination would come out to play. The dragon slayer would wreak bloody, sticky vengeance. And then I was getting freaking married — no elves invited.Even a baker of cupcakes and a maker of trinkets occasionally had to set aside the chocolate, the spice, and everything nice to save her friends. And her city.

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Two more elves were at large in Vancouver, but thankfully they'd been keeping a low profile while I faced the most daunting task of my twenty-seven years — planning and executing my wedding. I was dealing with a disgruntled grandmother with an extensive guest wish list of the magically inclined, all of whom didn't particularly like each other. Plus a fiance whose concept of time was altered whenever he stepped into a dimensional pocket, and a best friend who'd spent months planning what was certain to be an insane bachelorette party. How was I supposed to find time to worry about possible invasions, or the motley crew of magical misfits who had unrepentantly upended my peaceful existence?Not that I was complaining.Who didn't love wielding deadly weapons, opening a bakery, and marrying their soul mate in the same week? Or was that just my sort of thing?

I had everything I'd ever wanted — a successful business with a second bakery in the works, a sexy fiance who I adored, and good friends who loved to laugh almost as much as I did.So of course it couldn't possibly last.Unfortunately, this time the trouble was homegrown in Vancouver, threatening my own backyard and those who were under my protection — whether they wanted to be or not.I was, after all, the wielder of the instruments of assassination.Apparently, cutesy cupcakes and being nice only stretched so far.————————————-Champagne, Misfits, and Other Shady Magic is the seventh book in the Dowser series, which is set in the same universe as the Oracle and Reconstructionist series.While it is not necessary to read all three series, in order to avoid spoilers the ideal reading order is as follows:Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic...