Book Series: Dubric - Grimdark Writer's Cut

Weight of the Castellan’s Curse

December 28, 2019 Comments Off
WoCC cover

Buy on Amazon

For Dubric Byerly, aging head of security at Castle Faldorrah, saving lives has become a matter of saving his sanity. A silent, unseen killer stalks his castle, mutilating servant girls while leaving no clues or witnesses—only the gruesome ghosts of the victims. Ghosts only Dubric can see.

Caught in the grisly tangle is Nella, a linen maid working to free herself from a tortured past—if she can survive the invisible killer and pay off her debt to Lord Risley Romlin, grandson of the King and Dubric’s prime suspect. Every snowy dawn brings a new victim, a new ghost, and Dubric must resort to unconventional methods to unravel the few clues. With the future of Faldorrah and countless lives at stake, including his own, he can’t afford to be wrong. And if he’s right, the entire kingdom could be thrust into war.

Continue Reading

Protection of the Holy Knights

Comments Off

Buy on Amazon

Haunted by the ghosts of mutilated servant girls, desperate Castellan Dubric risked his page to look for ghost-stuff and catch their invisible killer. His bold move failed, and his page, Lars, nearly died. But Lars saw a scratch on Dubric’s prime suspect, Lord Risley Romlin, grandson of the king, who has motive, opportunity, a weapon similar to the killer’s, and an obsession with linen maid Nella.Each morning, another servant girl dies under the killer’s razor, each murder more vicious than the last and their bodies left in the snow. Details of the murders suggest dark magic is involved, magic Dubric had fought a war to defeat, and soon guards are murdered beside the women they were ordered to protect. Meanwhile Risley, determined to win Nella’s heart and ensure her safety at any cost, makes a bold move of his own.

Continue Reading

The Seer of Truth

Comments Off

Buy on Amazon

Eleven murders, eleven ghosts, and one lone linen maid.

An unseen killer has slaughtered ten servant girls and one guard, leaving disemboweled corpses in the castle courtyard. But Nella, a linen maid, survived her attack. The slasher took only her hair, not her life.
Nella loves a nobleman, the King’s grandson Risley—she admitted it with a bloody razor held to her throat—then she woke in Risley’s bed, surrounded by shining Holy Knights who pledged to protect her at any cost. Soon her beloved fled, insisting he left to get help. Without Risley near, the knights remained true to their vow and killed a man who attempted to assault her.

The castle people grow ever angrier in the wake of the knights’ ruthless protection and demand Risley’s arrest and execution. Castellan Dubric does little to quash their fury, but Dubric has burdens of his own—the heavy, dribbling ghosts of the eleven slaughtered victims, mostly servant girls like Nella. Dubric’s set a high bounty for Risley capture and return to the castle alive, but Nella, now isolated from even her friends, fears the reward may not be enough to save Risley’s life.

Continue Reading

The Scourge of Demon Metal

July 19, 2020 Comments Off

Buy on Amazon

The castle slasher is dead, killed by Risley Romlin to save his beloved Nella, but Castellan Dubric finds more death in the slasher’s secluded lair along with a terrifying corruption, a substance so vile none but the corrupted can look upon it, let alone touch it. He knows someone else has been killing and collecting death in ways he hasn’t seen since The War. Someone who corrupted the castle slasher. Someone who wields the scourge of Demon Metal.
Meanwhile, Risley’s taken Nella to the nearby village of Klinder to rest and heal and plan their future together. They think it’s quiet and safe, but they soon learn the killing’s not over, not yet.
Because this new threat is in the village, watching the young couple and the soldier assisting them. He has a score to settle and Dubric’s too far away to stop him this time.

Continue Reading