The Praetorius Agency Files

The Skin Thief

The Skin Thief (Book 1)

Agent Tessa Lancing believed she knew all about death—until she met Death itself.

Tessa has one last chance to prove herself to her employer, a disavowed secretive agency, or face literal termination, and she’s desperate to do what she must to succeed. When assigned to a doomed mission already littered with dead bodies, she drags Jack de Sombras, an accused traitor who’s also her old partner and unrequited love, out of his self-made tomb and back into the field. By teaming up with Jack, she expects to make quick work of the situation.

She’s wrong.

In addition to a mission gone sideways, they know they face potential assassins, a modern-day corrupt sheriff, and an ancient unspeakable terror. They are up against something more powerful than they could imagine and far more sadistic than they could have guessed.

With an ancient evil and Death itself after them, can they survive their last mission together?


The Pillar

The Pillar (Book 2)

The Spooks arrived before Jack and Tessa opened the doors of their new Paranormal Security Agency.

Ghosts, Psychotic Serial Killers, and a Mesopotamian curse. Never mind unresolved emotions between the two partners.

Antiques smugglers and terrorists do nothing to endure them with the FBI or a sinister gang of paramilitary soldiers.

Jack de Sombras thinks he was better off dead.
Tessa Wells-Lancing is becoming Death.
And the office paint job isn’t dry yet!


The Vessel (Book 3)

Some evils never die—they are reborn in unwilling flesh.

Former intelligence agent Jack de Sombras thought he had left behind a life of secrets when he and his clairvoyant partner, Tessa Wells Lancing, opened an executive protection firm, choosing to focus on clients endangered by threats far beyond the ordinary.

As Tessa wrestles with uncontrollable precognitive visions and Jack’s relentless skepticism strains their trust, a deadly chase begins through San Francisco’s eerie fog and Jack’s traumatic past.  The deeper they delve, the clearer it becomes: their adversary is no mere criminal.  He is a master of forbidden rites with a terrifying ability to blur the line between sacred and monstrous.  An unyielding preacher of twisted liturgy who will do anything to be reborn.

Haunted by her disturbing visions, pursued by a deadly family past, and hunted by a dark resurrection cult, Jack and Tessa must confront their greatest fears — a horror that refuses to stay dead and love that may never come to life.  Can they unravel a ritual of blood and betrayal before an unstoppable evil is reborn?