My current works in progress
From vicious fairy tales to romantic adventures, here's a taste of the current projects that I'm excited to be writing and illustrating.
Dutiful daughters do not enter the Wishing Wood, because the Good and Gracious Gods condemn wishing above all else. But when Mariposa’s father goes missing, he leaves a prophecy for her to follow.
She must enter the dark forest to find him and face the unholy creatures within.
Can Mariposa survive the challenges of the Wishing Wood—promises of beauty, temptations of wealth, feats of impossible strength—long enough to find her father, or will she be devoured by the fallen gods trapped within the trees?
In this world of generational wishing curses, enchanted midnight markets, and divine judgement, nothing is certain and no one is free.
Mahalina was a sky maiden destined for immortality in the heavens, until one brutal night cost her everything
Her wings lost. Her people slaughtered. Her home burned to ash.
Stripped of her divine destiny and doomed to die mortal, she drinks away her sorrows in a remote mountain village, until Andreas—an exiled kingsguard—arrives. He brings news of a tyrant king that’s swept the continent with religious fervor, deeming magic folk unholy monsters.
The hypocritical secret of the king’s power? Wish-granting feathers from a sky maiden’s wings.
Determined to reclaim what was stolen, Mahalina and Andreas embark upon a perilous quest through enchanted forests, battling mythical creatures, outwitting pirates, and navigating the treacherous politics of the five royal families. For Andreas, it’s a chance to uproot the tyranny he’d been complicit in for too long. For Mahalina, it’s her only hope of reclaiming her destiny in the stars.
But, as their bond deepens, Mahalina must choose: take back her wings and ascend to heaven, or fight for a broken world—and the man she’s come to love—even if it costs her eternity?
Lia is willing to do anything to get over the writer’s block delaying the final instalment of her mega-viral fantasy romance series—including taking a few punches (both literal and metaphorical).
Was it a bit impulsive to sign up for a fight-intensive, sparring-heavy martial arts group? Yes, especially when Coach James is a bitter grump with a great ass that’s used to coaching champion fighters, not fantasy writers in creative crisis. He’s got no idea how to help her choreograph the epic battle at the end of her trilogy—but he can’t afford to let her quit.
Lia is what his social-savvy receptionist and nosey niece would call an “influencer”. James’ gym—AKA the riskiest decision he’s ever made—is failing. If James can’t drum up some business, his business is getting possessed by the bank. Like it or not, Lia’s niche stardom could bring in droves of energetic fans that want to train like her famous “Warrior Sky Maiden Priestesses.”
They enter a begrudging partnership to save her book and his business through a program of early-morning cardio, live boxing intensives on social media, evening brainstorms over healthy dinners, and late night writing sprints over the phone. Lia’s fans are starting to speculate they could be a couple, likening James to the famously seductive love interest in the novels—but that’s crazy right? Lia’s trying to land a punch on his perfect jaw without passing out, not kiss him.
But every writer knows that even the best laid plots are no match for characters with epic, earth-shattering chemistry.
Pia is a beautiful woman, and she is a blood-sucking manananggal, but neither truth can protect her from becoming a pawn in a war between the gods.
By day, she works as a security guard at The Crescent, a trendy hotel on the Vegas strip owned by the Moon Goddess, Mayari. By night, she is whoever Mayari needs her to be—unflinching killer, master spy, fatal seductress—forced to embrace the demonic form she despises. But when Mayari’s divine inheritance and title as heir to Bathala’s throne is challenged by her brother, famous actor and sun god Apolaki, she gives Pia a new job: infiltrate Apolaki’s inner circle and seduce the lazy sun god out of pursuing his claim to the throne. If she does her job well, Mayari will use her divine power to make Pia mortal once and for all.
Pia agrees, thinking it will be easy to coax Apolaki back into the life of leisure he’s known for. When she travels to Hollywood she finds the devilishly handsome sun god is deceptively driven, with schemes of his own on how to combine his stardom with the power of the heavens. Pia is drawn to his charm as he teaches her to embrace the demonic part of herself she’s always shunned.
Pia remains torn between duty and desire—woman and monster—and must choose her allegiance once and for all. Will she side with the goddess that’s promised to grant her freedom from her demonic curse, or the god that intends to make a blood-thirsty manananggal his queen?
Set against the glittering backdrop of movie sets, casinos and strip clubs, Pia must decide what role she intends to play in this war and what it means to win—or risk the wrath of the heavens.
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