The Bittergate Chronicles follows a cast of characters through modern magical trials without all the dark, angsty weather common to urban fantasy. While the story does enjoy scenes in major cities like Atlanta, it lacks the whole dark feel of settings like Gotham.
The first series (4 books), Bittergate: Dragon Revolution, centers around Jedediah, his dragon apprentice Drake and Jedediah's other students as they defend the Bittergate from vengence and avarice.
Bittergate: Dragon Revolution
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Modern High Fantasy
Magic, moonshine and mercenaries fill the early twenty-first century with bad blood and bitter feuds. Families are torn by lines of power and secrets Magic doesn’t want known. Join 400 year old peanut farmer and wizard Jedediah Shine as he defends humanity and the Fey from one another while both leave murders on his doorstep. Its a world of dragons and elves, centaurs and pixies where youth is a key-turn away and ultimate power is guarded by a simple deed.
Book 1
Mysterious killers and the Fey he’s sworn to protect besiege southern farmer and sorcerer Jedediah Shine. Meanwhile, mounting murder victims threaten his family, freedom and magic’s deepest secret.
Fey both beautiful and vicious hide in the Georgia backwoods, guarded by four-hundred-year-old peanut farmer, bootlegger, and wizard Jedediah Shine.
Protecting humanity and the fey from one another is normally child's play compared to teaching magic to his new foster daughter and a Cherry Coke addicted dragonling, parenting an out-of-control half-elven teen sorceress or keeping his jealous elven ex-lover away from his new girlfriend.
Jedediah’s delicate balancing act is thrown into turmoil when rebellious, young centaurs launch a genocidal war against humanity from within his borders. At the same time, a vengeful mercenary company lays a trail of suspicious murders directly to Jedediah’s door. Unwitting pawns to a deeper menace, both serve a centuries-long plot to steal magic’s deepest secret.
The bloody conflict thrusts Jedediah’s family into Death's reach. As the body bag count rises and law enforcement closes in, Jedediah is forced to make desperate choices to protect his loved ones and magic itself by stopping the murders in his wood.
Book 2
Wizard's Bane is on the warpath. Jedediah is missing. The Namhaid are rebuilding only miles from the farm. Jordan and Drake must choose between rescuing everything they’ve come to love or abandoning it all for new safer lives – if it isn’t already too late.
Velith’Seravin and his Wizard’s Bane are on the warpath. Their ranks swell, drawing discontent recruits from many of the Fey communities. Quadruplet faun sorceresses embolden a daring raid, capturing the powerful necromancer Mauve. With arcane and shaman magic helping apprehend and execute wizards worldwide, Velith’Seravin courts full-scale Fey War by abducting dragonlings fostered by the wizards slain. Unbeknownst to him, his sorceresses owe the Namhaid wizard, Zero, for their enhanced powers.
Jordan’s alone. Jedediah and Drake are nowhere to be found. The farmhouse is in ruins. Jedediah’s ex-girlfriend Billie Jo hounds her, trying to save Jordan from Jedediah’s satanic influence. She drags Jordan back to school. She drags Jordan back into the system she thought she’d escaped. Her new foster mother is a sociopath. She’s struggling to survive Wizard’s Bane assaults, bounty hunters and church ladies armed with holy water, when she finds herself besieged by imperiled pre-teens pleading for her protection. Protecting one leads to the discovery of a secret Namhaid base built locally in Jedediah’s absence.
Drake has exiled himself as punishment for letting Lanea’s attacker escape. He drags himself out of a drunken Cherry Coke oblivion when Mauve’s apprentice, Kane, arrives with dire news and vicious sorceresses on his tail. He abandons Kane and his troubles to Jordan, flying cross-country to beg Stormfall for help reaching a desperately needed but broken Jedediah. En route, he discovers centaurs are kidnapping dragonlings when he helps an injured Salyse. Burgeoning feelings war with guilt-riddled love. Pursued by dragon hunters Drake must choose: sacrifice avenging Lanea or rescue Salyse.
Jordan and Drake must find the strength to survive in a dangerous adult world. They must face their demons while protecting those in desperate need of their help. Can they face off against Zero and Stormfall and Wizard’s Bane without letting anyone die?
Book 3
Jedediah has returned, but the guardian's extended absense has left cracks in the barriers separating the magical from all things normal. Fey are choosing sides. Wizards are dying. Dragons threaten all out slaughter.
Separated and alone, each of Jedediah's apprentices must discover their own place in the coming war.
Bittergate#3: Stalled - My imaginary friends stopped talking to me.
Book 4
Deception proved the enemy's most cunning weapon, turning eartwhile allies into foes. Siblings battle one another, and parents fight childrens. Where will the bloodshed stop? Can Jedediah and his students unravel truth from illusion before magic is enslaved forever?
Bittergate #4: Not Yet Started
