The Lee and Taro series

In a realm beset by natural disasters, only the magical abilities of bonded Pairs – Source and Shield – make the land habitable and keep the citizenry safe. The ties that bind them are far beyond the relationships between lovers or kin – and last their entire lives.

Whether they like it or not.

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Resenting the Hero:

Dunleavy Mallorough has trained her entire life to be a Shield, and she approaches her role with discipline and a wry sense of humor she generally keeps to herself. Lord Shintaro Karish is handsome, charismatic, and the last Source Dunleavy wanted as a partner. The Pair is assigned to High Scape, a city so besieged by disasters that seven bonded Pairs are needed to combat it. But when an inexplicable force strikes down every other Source and Shield, Dunleavy and Shintaro much put aside their differences in order to defeat the unnatural and the unexpected.

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The Hero Strikes Back:

The weather in the city of High Scape has taken an unnatural turn. It’s snowing in the middle of summer, and the townsfolk are desperate for Shield Dunleavy Mallorough and Source Shintaro Karish to fix it – which they can’t, but try explaining that to an angry mob.

Meanwhile, there’s a crazed killer targeting aristocrats. Karish has forfeited the Dukedom of Westsea to continue working as a Source, but Lee fears that technicality  won’t matter to the murderer.

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Heroes Adrift:

Shield Dunleavy Mallorough and Source Shintaro Karish are summoned by the Empress and charged with the task of finding the descendents of her exiled sister. Lee and Taro recognize they are ill-suited to the task, but they are in no position to refuse. So, in search of lost royalty, they travel to the Southern Islands, where the heat is unbearable, the clothing is just short of optional, and the less-than-friendly locals couldn’t care less that Lee and Taro are working for the Empress.

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Heroes At Risk:

Upon their return to High Scape, Shield Dunleavy Mallorough and Source Shintaro Karish find that the city once besieged by frequent natural disasters seems to have settled down. Instead, the townspeople are obsessed with a ritualistic magic – one that anyone can study and learn. People are digging up the ashes of the dead for use in their spells, and among those of the living, the most fortunate are being murdered so their remains may be harvested. Lee fears Taro is in grave danger, for who could be thought to work better as a charm than her handsome and talented Source?

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Heroes Return:

Shield Dunleavy Mallorough and Source Shintaro Karish have been ordered to Westsea, the ancestral lands of Taro’s family. Westsea is suffering earthquakes that appear almost immune to Lee and Taro’s talents. As Lee tries to discover why this land resists their protection, Taro faces unrest among the local population, who would prefer to name him duke instead of his cousin. And when Lee starts having potentially deadly “accidents,” she realizes that something is very wrong in Westsea.