Novels and Collections

Rivers of Ivy

A stolen purse unravels Ivy Garton’s life: her sister murdered, her brother arrested, her young world shattered. Driven by her mother’s plea to right this wrong, she flees to the fabled city of Highglen—a city where magic is enslaved and a new breed of man has appeared: the influential industrialist. But her arrival awakens political forces that have long hunted her kin.

To protect what remains of her family, Ivy must infiltrate a master swindler’s con game, using lies, theft, and blackmail to sabotage the
deepest secrets of a corrupt elite.

Addicted to Heaven: The Next Generation is an epic fantasy saga that follows Ivy’s rise beyond poverty and the shackles of her magical past, drawing her into an underworld of spies, deceit, and seduction. As civil war simmers, she discovers love, the true meaning of family, and a magic strong enough to change a kingdom.

Gathering of Ghosts

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Unrest is in the land; war is brewing. Ghosts gather, lured by death.

Highborn magiel Rennika Falkyn cannot let herself be drawn into this war, this insidious politics between kings, this heedless exploitation by her sisters. She has created a life with her husband and children in order to hide her shameful past, and she vows to protect it with all her being.

But when Rennika’s rebel sister Meg—deprived of her spellcasting ability—appears in search of help, Rennika fears for the safety of her secrets. Afraid of blackmail, she succumbs to Meg’s plea to track down a mysterious child, and is drawn into a labyrinth of inky caverns and magically-induced glimpses of her future. A future where her husband’s love for her is shaken by the revelation of who Rennika truly is; where Janat must choose between sobriety and the life of her child; and where Meg must come to grips with what it means to live a life as a magiel without magic.

Gathering of Ghosts completes the epic tale of three sisters and their continuing family saga of addictions, survival, revenge, and redemption in an empire where magic is enslaved. Is their family bond strong enough to overcome past deceit and betrayal? To stop a king obsessed with subjugating seven realms in his drive to vanquish his family’s curse? And can Rennika overcome the stigma of her past crimes, and be redeemed at last, by love?

Book Three of the Addicted to Heaven series.

Flights of Marigold

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Meg and Janat Falkyn, fugitive daughters of an imperial magiel, escape to the edge of the world to restore their people’s access to their Gods—by recapturing a fabled prayer stone. But to accomplish the theft, whom can they trust? The ambitious High King’s sister thirsts for power. A calculating regent enriches himself with a steam-driven textile monopoly. A charming swindler sets up an elaborate scheme. And unraveling secrets hidden in castles, alleyways, and brothels threaten to expose everything. With rebels stalking the sisters, and the High King’s armies on the march, Meg’s time is up.

Book Two of the Addicted to Heaven series.

Bursts of Fire

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Bursts of Fire beings an epic political fantasy of revenge, addictions, and redemption. In an empire where magic has become suspect, love and loyalty—for one’s lover, one’s family, one’s country—are tested. If Heaven desires the very earth be burned, what place can those below hope for, when the flames come for them?

Book One of the Addicted to Heaven series.

 

Immunity to Strange Tales

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Susan Forest’s first collection of short fiction, Immunity To Strange Tales, was launched at the When Words Collide conference in Calgary, August 10-12, 2012. The collection contains nine reprints, including “Back,” finalist for the 2009 Prix Aurora Awards (short fiction category) as well as three new stories: “Killing the Cat,” “The Way Back,” and “The Strange Tale of–” Five Rivers Press, 2012.