Skip to content

Cozy Fantasy

Mystery with a dash of magic and a dollop of cozy fantasy in Cozy Vales.

The Pokeberry Village Mystery Series

Cozy Vales is a shared fantasy world, meaning multiple authors have come together to create an amazing place filled with elves, orcs, humans, witches, dragons, and pixies. Each author created a vale for their stories, and each story has a unique tale to tell.

Moonseed Vale, the setting for my upcoming Pokeberry Village cozy fantasy mystery series, sits one hundred miles northwest of the Capital City on the border with the Republic of Wistram. Bordered by mountains, the sloping green valleys of Moonseed are criss-crossed with rushing rivers. Vegetable and cattle farmers dot the landscape, but its chief import is medicinal remedies. And its poisons.

Pokeberry Village is the largest town in Moonseed with over 2,000 inhabitants. The townsfolk include humans, elves, orcs, dwarves, pixies, sprites, garden gnomes, and tylluans (an owl-like creature with immunities to poisons). The village is lined with ivy-laden stone cottages and rich gardens. Each cottage has a name, which originated from a poison of some kind. And like all charming villages (especially if you’ve ever seen the Midsomer Mystery TV series), it contains nefarious dwellers who get up to no good.

Like murder.

Short Story

Frantic for stationary. Desperate to win.

Iola Vaughn is stuck. Stuck on words and without a quill to write them. Kithaela Nevyn is stuck as well. Stuck on her book cover design and without the paper to execute it.  

When Kit’s pixie companion, Frangi, and a freyan kitten cause calamity at the Delphinium Stationery shop, Iola and Kit walk away unable to purchase the much needed supplies. Upon their return, the shop owner’s most valued possession is missing. They vow to catch the thief, but the clues are minimal, the clock is ticking, and neither wants to work with the other.

Can they uncover who stole the everlasting quill or will their competitive natures leave everyone but the thief on the losing side?

Sign up for my newsletter and get your free copy!

Summer Anthology #2

Welcome to the Cozy Vales queendom, where delightful and heart-warming stories are always on the menu!

Grab your picnic basket and favorite cold beverage because the latest offering from the Cozy Vales scribes has hours of summer reading waiting for you!

Summer Tales features stories set during Summer’s Tide, a two-week holiday celebrating life, love, and nature that culminates with High Summer, a day of festival frivolity and an all-night celebration of revelry, storytelling, and fireworks.

This anthology features a new story in the Pokeberry Village series, Desperate at the Delphinium. 

Desperate at The Delphinium

Iola Vaughn is desperate for inspiration for a new epic tale she is writing, which is the highlight of the High Summer festivities. Kithaela Nevyn is also desperate for inspiration, but hers is for more time and a way to make her book cover design shine.

When the two stumble upon a theft at the Delphinium Stationary shop, they have no choice but to solve it. But they decide to work separately, even though two heads (plus a pixie and a kitten) are clearly better than one. Can they come together to solve the crime in time to enjoy the High Summer festivities? 

Cozy Vales anthology
Winter Anthology #1

A delightful collection of cozy fantasy stories set in the coziest of worlds

Join me and nine other authors for cozy fantasy winter tales in Queen Liara’s queendom, Cozy Vales. Pour yourself a mug of tea, coffee, or cocoa (we don’t judge), wrap up in your fluffiest of blankets, and enjoy tales of needle-wielding pixies, wandering teahouses, witchy stitchers, bard toads, and so much more.

The anthology features the start of my new Pokeberry Village series, Sour at The Salt & Pickle.

Sour at The Salt & Pickle

Kithaela Nevyn, and her pixie companion, Frangipani, are traveling from Capital City to her new hometown in Moonseed Vale. Their last stop on their journey is in Croesfford at The Salt & Pickle Inn. They expected some revelry in celebrating the first week of the winter holiday, Winter’s Tide, decent food and drink, and a good night’s rest. But what they find instead is… murder.