Fiction | Poetry | Nonfiction
A NEW PLACE:
Essays & Poems
A New Place is a collection of personal essays that plumb the themes of identity: black, queer, spiritual through and through. And don’t forget nerdy. Jaymes offers an honest, and at times beautiful, account of what it is like to be on a journey toward wholeness in a world seemingly built for ruin.
THE LOST AMULET
The Salt & Stone Chronicles: Book One
The gods don't wait. Neither do the people hunting them.
When a strand of sapphire beads falls into his hands, art historian Dr. Marcus Voss learns two things fast: powerful people want them back, and whatever has been dormant inside him has woken up.
Within hours, his best friend is gone. Abducted by a ruthless Oxford witch and the secret brotherhood funding her, Marcus is thrown into a secret war between factions, racing toward a rare astronomical conjunction that will break the veil between worlds. They need the beads. And the amulet. They won’t stop until they have both.
Now he's running: from a coven that can slip through shadows, a lethal ex-Vatican operative with centuries of institutional violence behind him, and the goddess who has lived alongside his bloodline for generations, waiting for this exact moment to collect.
With his friend's life in the balance, Marcus must decide how much of himself he's willing to lose, and whether the power he's spent his whole life refusing is enough to save anyone at all.
Some debts are generational. Some are divine. All eventually come due.