What do you do when the supernatural world crashes, horribly and violently, into yours? If you’re Jill Hamilton, you hire yourself a couple of hard-bitten, demon-hunting, monster-killing bodyguards, get in your dead boyfriend’s giant truck, and you go out and study it.
Welcome to the saga of Driving Arcana, the tale of three women on a mission to catch unicorns, talk to vampires, and understand the impossible—and maybe kill some monsters on the way—for science, justice, and the fight against evil.

Heliopause: 2013-present | Fantasy/Urban Fantasy/Dark Fantasy | Young Adult/Fun Adult

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Books in the Series

Wheel 1

By Moon and Star

Welcome to a world where the natural and the supernatural mingle—sometimes with devastating results. Selene Shields and Clara Nordstern know this world, have seen everything from werewolves to witches, ghosts, ghouls, and even an angel. But they’ve never seen anything quite like Jill Hamilton, a grad student from UC Santa Cruz, whose reaction to losing her boyfriend in a rabid chimera attack is to go out and study the very things normal humans are supposed to ignore. 

So begins the saga of Driving Arcana: three women in a big truck, chasing unicorns, interviewing vampires, and hunting monsters—to fight evil, protect humanity, but mostly, for science.

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Wheel 2

Paving the Road to Hell

What do you do when the supernatural world crashes—suddenly, violently, devastatingly—into yours? If you are Jill Hamilton, you drop out of UC Santa Cruz, use your inherited savings to hire a couple monster hunters as bodyguards, get in your dead boyfriend’s truck, and you go out and study it. Of course. Even if your bodyguards tell you some things are better left un-studied. Even if unicorns are real and bloodthirsty. Even if summoning old, forgotten gods has detrimental effects on the state of reality. Because beyond killing monsters and helping people, Jill Hamilton wants to understand why the world she thought she knew is actually so much deeper, darker, and downright magical than it has any right to be.

This is the world of Driving Arcana, where even the painfully boring and mundane aspects of everyday life are underlaid by a subtle current of inexplicable magic, and three women are on a mission to find out how it all works. Even if two of them would really rather not.

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Wheel 3

Hope in the Forest of Despair

What do you do when your drastic measures to save your own life result in you becoming a strange, half-undead creature that even other monsters are afraid of? If you’re Jill Hamilton, you start a company dedicated to the study of those monsters—and anything else that looks remotely magical.

What do you do when you lose your best friend when she falls off a bridge in Purgatory? If you’re Clara Nordstern, you try to find the next thing that needs doing. Even if it means confronting your worst fears and your deepest guilt.

What do you do when you get sucked into Hell by the demon Lilith? If you’re Selene Shields, you start walking. One foot in front of the other. Even if it means going right through the center of Hell.

The world of Driving Arcana, always subverted by magic, is becoming openly mythic, and Jill, Clara, and Selene must navigate a landscape increasingly compromised by powers beyond anyone’s expectation—but not, Jill would point out, beyond potential understanding.

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Coming soon:

Wheel 4

The Sound of Wings

Apocalypse Paused • One-Half Arcana • White Noise • A Bloody Breeze • Ghost Ocean • The Sound of Wings • Under the Midnight Sun • Loki is Alive and Well and Living in New Orleans • Beyond Ragnorök

Wheel 5

TBA

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E-book editions available on Overdrive. Softcover editions distributed by Amazon KDP. Hardcover editions distributed by Lulu.

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Episode Guide

Wheel 1 – BY MOON AND STAR

1. The Sword and the Shield
2. Highway Unicorns
3. Shadows in the Valley of Death
4. Sex, Blood and Rock ’n’ Roll
5. God, or Aliens
6. Missionary Man
7. Sons of Fire
8. Dying to Live
9. By Moon and Star
   • Abandon All ____

Wheel 2 – PAVING THE ROAD TO HELL

10. The Earth It Weeps
11. Out of Space
12. Half Lives
13. Critical Magic
14. On the Surface Die
15. Free Man Running
16. Follow the Dark
17. Paving the Road to Hell
18. Escape Plan
    • The Five Bodies of Tamerlain Pierce

Wheel 3 – HOPE IN THE FOREST OF DESPAIR

19. Lightning Does Strike Twice
20. Moonrise Over Hades
21. The Hour I First Believed
22. Hope in the Forest of Despair
23. Cloth of Man
24. Blood and Fury
25. Fear Not
26. A Cold Day in Hell
27. The Great Gate
    • The Lady in the Gray Suit

Wheel 4 – THE SOUND OF WINGS

28. Apocalypse Paused
29. One-Half Arcana
30. White Noise
31. A Bloody Breeze
32. Ghost Ocean
33. The Sound of Wings
34. Under the Midnight Sun
35. Loki is Alive and Well and Living in New Orleans
36. Beyond Ragnorök
    • Wish for Something Wild

Wheel 5 – TBA

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