Tales from the Broken Claw
More than a few travelers find themselves at the wide-open gates of North Pointe Common Towne, where the townspeople and their unusual shops are ready and waiting to help them get equipped, a little tipsy, and fully rested for their adventures. But Sam isn’t your usual adventurer—she’s looking to settle down after a career as a hard-fighting merc. And North Pointe Common Towne might just have a place for her.
A “low stakes,” non-epic fantasy powered by the smell of freshly baked bread, a cool tankard of ale, and a curiously welcoming town that holds a few closely guarded secrets.
Book 1 Pubs & Pegasi
Retired mercenary Sam rides into a small, oddly fortified lakeside village and finds something she didn't know she was looking for — a place with a quiet magic built on the motto 'serve all,' warm friendships, and genuinely exceptional pastries. There's also a pub, some bandit trouble, and a deeply irritating pegasus situation. Turns out the end of one road is just the beginning of another.
Ebook: ASIN B0D38XFM9X (available on Kindle Unlimited)
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-953645-15-9
Book 2 Anvils & Avatars
Warren the gentle ogre blacksmith has finally found his peaceful corner of the world in North Pointe — until his 'Forge Dreams' return, demanding he craft a twisted sword and a dangerous crown from ore that refuses to cooperate. Mysterious strangers are drifting into town, and a new omen is gathering on the horizon. Maintaining peace, it turns out, can be just as perilous as winning a war.
Ebook: ASIN B0FMQC96V7 (available on Kindle Unlimited)
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-953645-26-5
Book 3 Volumes & Villainesses
Life in North Pointe hums along in its comfortable, magic-touched rhythm — until a new arrival quietly begins to unsettle everything Vamir thought was settled. The greatest mysteries here aren't found on the road outside, but in small moments, old ghosts, and the stories hiding between the lines of a well-worn book. Even the coziest towns have their shadows.
Ebook: ASIN B0FNRYQ4H8 (available on Kindle Unlimited)
Paperback: ISBN 978-19-53645-27-2
Book 4 Teas & Tribulations
When a surge of desperate refugees strains North Pointe's delicate magical balance, the town's gifts begin misfiring in unsettling and occasionally hilarious ways — and gentle gnome herbalist Galhani finds her beloved teas suddenly powerless against a force that drains creativity itself. With her sense of purpose on the line, she discovers the most profound magic in the town's arsenal isn't a spell or a potion. It's a shared cup of tea.
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Paperback: ISBN 978-19-53645-28-9
Book 5 Watchers & Windstorms
A retired god minding the lakeside storehouse wants nothing more than to be left alone — but a rising Goblin King in the west has sent a flock of petty, preening minor deities flooding into North Pointe, squabbling over worshippers and threatening to unravel everything. Knodalon, ancient god of storms, must drag himself out of retirement to deal with a god of lost socks and his insufferable colleagues. Even gods don't get to stay retired forever.
Ebook: ASIN B0FTT6KDQG (available on Kindle Unlimited)
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-953645-30-2
Book Omnibus 1 Broken Claw Books 1-5
Collecting Books 1-5 from Tales of the broken Claw.
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Book 6 Stitches & Snake Oil
When a snake oil salesman rolls through North Pointe's gates peddling fake destiny potions, seamstress Prudence recognizes him immediately — he's a ghost from her conservative past, and the last person she wants anywhere near the magical heart of her new home. To protect her community, she'll have to stop restraining her gift and finally make what she was always meant to make: clothes that don't just fit the body, but fit the destiny. The most dangerous thing she's ever sewn is the truth about herself.
Ebook: ASIN B0FVW89T6F (available on Kindle Unlimited)
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-953645-31-9
Book 7 Peacekeepers & Pùca
Constable Jen keeps North Pointe's peace with a warrior's grit and a magical gift for calming violent intent — neither of which is much help when the crisis turns out to be a swarm of secretive knee-high jewelers, a mysterious Mountain Elf claiming the last shop spot, and a potent herbal tea that keeps accidentally disabling her powers. The town's magical balance hinges on whether there are twenty shops or twenty-one, and somehow that's Jen's problem to solve. Swords she can handle. Magical bureaucracy is another matter.
Ebook: ASIN B0FX5YGNVL (available on Kindle Unlimited)
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-953645-32-6 (coming soon)
Book 8 Cuts & Catastrophes
Dardrad the dwarven butcher has a rare gift — he can sink into the earth and traverse continents in minutes to retrieve provisions that give travelers exactly what they need — but his shop sits above a secret: the architectural shame that drove him out of dwarven society. When tremors start shaking the town square and his connection to the earth begins to fail, the only fix requires him to become the one thing he swore he'd never be again. The butcher who runs must become the architect who stays.
Ebook: ASIN B0FX5ZNB6T (available on Kindle Unlimited)
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-953645-33-3 (March 2026)
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Book 9 Gears & Gateways
Clockmaker Finnian's shop magic is simple and elegant — every clock sold offers the buyer a glimpse of their future — which makes it deeply inconvenient when his newest grandfather clock skips the foresight and opens a swirling dimensional portal that swallows a customer whole. With the timeline in tatters and mischievous Púca looting interdimensional gems through the gaps, Finnian must learn the one lesson his overcomplicated mind resists: the most powerful mechanism is the simplest one. Fewer gears, more wisdom.
Ebook: ASIN B0G5M2RZQY (available on Kindle Unlimited)
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-953645-34-0 (April 15 2026)
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Book 10 Bandages & Banshees
North Pointe's pale, impossibly fast chirurgeon Dexter has a secret — he sustains himself on the pain he draws from his patients — and a past he's been running from since a botched experiment by his former community tried to eliminate suffering entirely and created something far worse. When a chorus of shrieking banshees descends on the town as echoes of that failure, Dexter can't outrun it anymore. The town's fastest healer has to finally slow down and let himself be known.
Ebook: ASIN B0G5MDT344 (available on Kindle Unlimited)
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-953645-35-7 (May 15 2026)
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Book Omnibus 2 Broken Claw Books 6-10
Collecting Books 6-10 in Tales from the Broken Claw.
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