Corisande “Cori” Munroe never asked for magic—or the chaos it brings.
From EMT to double merlin to the Herald of Magic, she’s navigating a world where fate, danger, and power twist tighter with every choice. Murder, politics, friendship, and duty collide in this gripping urban fantasy set in the Ternion Universe.
Perfect for fans of Patricia Briggs and Jim Butcher.
When your heart shatters, life will never be the same. Cori and Stevie are best friends. When a day at the park goes horribly wrong, her life and family will never be the same. The story of what happened to Stevie and why Cori can not forget.
When your heart shatters, life will never be the same. Cori and Stevie are best friends. When a day at the park goes horribly wrong, her life and family will never be the same. The story of what happened to Stevie and why Cori can not forget.
They call me Cori Catastrophe—and, unfortunately, they’re right. I didn’t ask for magic. I didn’t want to be powerful. I just refuse to quit. In a world where magic shapes everything, I should be just another mundane struggling to get by. No spells. No shortcuts. Just sheer determination. Ever since my twin brother died in my arms, I’ve had to fight for every inch of my life. Paying for college while mages get free rides? I’ll do it anyway. Juggling two jobs to become an EMT? Exhausting, but I won’t stop. Finding dead bodies in my path? Normal… until one of them has my name in his pocket. I don’t know who’s looking for me, but I do know this: I won’t run, and I won’t back down. Step into My Luck, the first book in the Twisted Luck series—a modern urban fantasy where bad luck, magic, and mystery collide. Featuring a found family, a fiercely determined ace heroine, and the kind of everyday struggles that make life both messy and magical.
With my best friend going to college to learn how to use her magic, I'm job hunting in Atlanta. We're sharing an apartment and I've never been happier. The last thing I needed was to be involved in a murder investigation. Now the police are sure I had something to do with it. News alert: I don't. I've got a job, Jo's going school. I finally am on the track to have my own life. Working as an EMT is great, but something weird happened at work. Something I can't explain. What if I'm wrong and I am a mage? The last thing I want is to be a mage, it would mean I'd lose everything I've been working for. Even if I am a mage, I'd be a low ranking one, a hedgemage, something that means I can keep my current life. But I can't get the dead girl out of my mind. Who was she and why did she die? What good are my skills if all I do is keep finding dead people? With a serial killer out there, the police and FBI stepping in, I might lose more than the life I had planned. I might lose my life. Once again my luck holds true and I'm in the middle of something I don't know how to deal with.
Being a double merlin sucks. You’d think having power, having people treat you with respect, an insanely awesome inheritance waiting for me, and knowing you could do really awesome(awful) things would be cool. It isn’t. I’ve got strings you wouldn’t believe attached to the inheritance. Then it turns out other people want it, so instead of suing me, I mean that would be logical, right? No, they are trying to kill me. And I don’t mean a single person, a freaking country! How insane is that? Well screw them. I’m getting my degree, and getting the inheritance. Okay the house. I really want the house. But when Jo gets hurt and my familiar decides to start calling in favors, then things get even more twisted. With my luck we might all end up insane, or dead before this is over. But I refuse to give in. This is my life, and who knows, maybe I’ll survive. But with my luck, you never know what might happen.
Magic doesn't solve everything, but sometimes it can create a solution. Charles Wainscot never expected to be a mage, but when it came with a familiar he thinks it might all be worth it. College, new life, maybe new friends. Too bad his old life has followed him with the presence of a high school bully. Either way, he'll manage by himself. But when Cori Munroe bursts into his life things get a lot stranger. Charles will have to decide who he wants to be and exactly how he is going to handle a bully. This is a short story set in the Twisted Luck universe. This takes place during book 3 Educated Luck.
Magical house, insane killer, and life altering decisions—being an adult sucks. I did it, I've graduated and no more pressure. And I've got a house, me a house! Road trip time for Jo, Sable, and me up to Albany, New York. The house both is and isn't what I expected. Beautiful-yes. Locked rooms with mysterious stuff-yes. But it also seems alive, which isn't possible. This isn't a movie, houses aren't alive. But before I get to finish exploring the house the draft office has decided I need another trial run, and of course Agent Steven Alixant is their errand boy. Before I get a chance to figure out anything— there are some odd things about that house—I'm dragged off to New York City to help catch a serial killer. Which makes no sense. A bachelors degree doesn't make me Sherlock Holmes. Things are going well, I guess. Is it a good thing to figure out clues about a serial killer's identity? But when I get a phone call that something has happened to Jo and Sable is when things get dangerous. I'm going to have to make a bunch of decisions and I hope I can save Jo and Sable, even if it ends up costing me my life. When your luck is as twisted as mine nothing is ever straightforward.
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here…. Weddings are never easy. But a wedding for your best friend has it's own certain brand of joy. Jo and Sable are getting married and I'm going to be their Person of Honor. Easy, right? Between defending my dissertation, dealing with wedding plans gone wild, freaking out brides, and my own miss givings, it's going to take a miracle to get us all to the altar. But sometimes just loving someone is enough. If I have to use magic to make it perfect, I will.
Draft here I come, ready or not. Doctorate achieved! Now time to pay off my mandatory service obligation to the government. The same government that may, or may not, be trying to occasionally kill me. But hey a job is a good thing, right? I didn't expect it to be all rainbows and sprinkles, but neither did I envision being thrown in with a training group of misfits and potential criminals. How did I end up having to make decisions to let someone die, or try to prevent it, when keeping them alive is breaking the law. You'd think with my skills they'd put me in a quiet lab somewhere. No, I get stuck with the Department of State and working with Japan. Don't these people read? Japan wants to kill me even more than my own government. But when Carelian decides the Dragon of China needs a friend my personal problems get eclipsed by international incidents, centered around me. Being a trouble magnet is one thing, starting World War III is something else. How in the world do I get myself into these situations? And why didn't they just stick me somewhere where I wouldn't be the center of political drama?
For Cori Munroe, carrying a surrogate baby shouldn’t be any big deal. She’s got magic on her side, right? Wrong. Pregnancy is fritzing her magic, while she has to deal with a variety of work issues, up to and very much including a huge medal ceremony involving the United States and China for saving D.C. and China’s reputation. Then the Council of Lords wants her to represent Earth’s mages. All while trying to deal with magical issues without her usual power levels. Bombs, terrorist attacks, and work pressures are hard for anyone to deal with, let alone a pregnant woman. But when her family’s safety is threatened, Cori’s going to find a way to protect them…or die trying. With her twisted luck, anything can happen. An urban fantasy about the things you do for family no matter what shape they wear, and magic that might change everything, or nothing.
Freedom and a chance to live, right? Cori Munroe just wants to enjoy her life after her Draft service has completed. The kids are delightful, her home life is good, but as always, trouble finds her. Rips between Earth and the realms are appearing and she seems to be to the only mage that can easily close them. When Esmere calls her to attend the council, something she thought she was well clear of, she finds herself forced to take up a position as Lord of Earth. With the council expecting her as the Herald of Magic to stop the rips, Earth freaking out and preparing military responses to the rips, Cori finds herself caught in the middle between old friends in the structures of power and new friends in the realms. Can Cori find the answers to the Undoing and stop this before something unforgivable is done? Or will she and her family be caught in the middle of a war between Magic and Earth? How high will the cost get?
I'm Cori Munroe, and I'm the Herald of Magic or so everyone keep telling me. Rips are happening across the world and I'm the only one that can close them all by myself. They have me hopping everywhere and I'm running out of energy and running down my health. But if I don't do this people are going to die. So I'm trying to fix this. We're researching Atlantis, phoenix's, other heralds of magic, and the Undoing. Somewhere there has to be a clue that will get me the answers I need to solve this. Because if there isn't there just might be a war between Earth and the Realms. If war happens, we all lose. I'm trying but there isn't enough of me to go around and the problem is getting worse, debts are being called in, and the government is wasting my time. If my family, friends, and fan groups aren't enough, I'll sacrifice myself. After all, I'm the Herald of Magic, right?