I’m over the moon to announce that I’ve sold my novel manuscript Talio’s Codex to Space Wizard Science Fantasy for publication in July, 2024.
Talio Rossa was an unconventional magistrate in the four cities, until his wife found him in bed with another man and someone stole his most valuable possession, his magistrate’s codex. He lost everything at once: his marriage, his reputation, and his career.
With no prospects and no hope, he fled the four cities and went back to the only other work he knew: scavenging the magical mineral that powers the cities’ skyships. For ten years he’s been searching and digging, ten long years dreaming of returning to the law.
Then his ex-wife shows up with an offer: If he helps her family out in a complicated murder case, she’ll get his record cleared. It’s the perfect opportunity for Talio to get his legal career going again. All he has to do is win an impossible case, defending a man who refuses to say he’s innocent. And when sparks fly between them, all the more reason to get him acquitted.
Then he has to get his career back on track, when nobody will hire him. Finally, he’s got to figure out who set him up for scandal a decade earlier. Because it was definitely a setup. There’s a legal conspiracy that’s had their eye on Talio for his entire career, and this time, they’re quite ready to kill him to protect their secret.
Talio’s Codex is set in a Dutch/Venetian-inspired world of canals, water worship and magic-powered skyships.