The Books

Possible Short Story

The Kirby

Between Crimson Cabaret and Blondie

Sierra Vista, before any of this started. A vampire in the coterie is abusing a kitten. The coterie is too busy fighting a theological cold war to do anything about it — until she decides the boyfriend needs to go too. The kitten is fine. The kitten was always going to be fine.

In Development

Crimson Cabaret

Starting in the year 2000

Vera is a hundred-year-old vampire from Chicago who comes to Tucson in 2000 convinced she can build something of her own. The woman she has to ask for permission has been in this desert longer than Chicago has had a name. This book opens the city before the survivors arrive in it.

In Development — Book Four

Levantadas

Fourth in the Levantadas’ timeline

Sierra Vista is learning how to survive. Tucson is something harder. The book where the story stops being about individual women who survived and starts being about what they build together — and who tries to stop them.

In Development — Book Five

Title TBD

Babydoll & Warren

Fifth in the Levantadas’ timeline

Warren knows she doesn’t need a protector. He watches out for her anyway. Meanwhile, Babydoll is getting pulled into Tucson vampire politics she never asked for — a power structure built by people who still haven’t figured out what she is. They are going to learn.

In Development

Ulysses

After Babydoll

He was born Domingo Aparicio, took his dead friend’s name at sixteen, and never gave it back. A private investigator who knows where every body is buried — in several cases because he helped. When Vera needs something found, she calls Ulysses. What she needs found is her lost merchandise. The reader already knows what that means.

In Development

Abuela

After Levantadas

She was born in 1908. She buried a husband, two infants, a son, and a daughter. The cancer came in 1983 and she decided it couldn’t have her. For thirty-eight years she has kept a haven in the desert for the ones nobody else would take. This is the story of the woman who stayed.

Possible Novella

Cactusflower

After Levantadas, before Rocket & Trip

She ran away to get back to her father — the parent who actually wanted her. Someone found her along the way and made her into something that feeds on blood. She made it to Tucson anyway. Her father is there. He doesn’t know what she is. How do you go home when home is the one thing you can’t risk?

In Development

Trip

Concurrent with Levantadas

He has a spiteful ex-wife, a son he’d burn the world down to protect, and a woman at the Crimson Cabaret who might be the only thing keeping him tethered to something worth keeping. Vera has other plans for him. Every time he proves what he’s capable of, there’s a little less of him left to go home.

In Development

Claudia Clearance Crew

After Trip

The Claudias — child vampires, unstable and dangerous — have become Vera’s problem. Betsy Bishop made it so. She recruits Trip, Ghost Step, Daphne Van Der Groot, and John Christian. The job is execution. The question nobody asks out loud is what it costs to be the kind of person who can do it.

In Development — Book Six

Title TBD

Rocket & Trip

Sixth in the Levantadas’ timeline. After CCC & Cactusflower.

Trip walks into the Neighborhood bar on the worst night of his life. Rocket is already there, dealing with something she doesn’t have a name for yet. Two people who have survived things that should have ended them — same bar, completely different problems. It turns out that might be enough to start something.

In Development

Sings in Woods

Between Babydoll and end of Levantadas

Warren Sterling stumbles onto a secret over a hundred years old: a vampire imprisoned in the desert, conscious and waiting, whose only crime was failing to live up to expectations. She helped Betsy Bishop escape the witch trials. Betsy has believed her dead for a century.