The Schattenreich Series

Caitlin Schwarzbach fears Death. That's her name for the gaunt wraith who haunts her. After leaving small-town Texas for Cologne, Germany, she faces an even bigger fear. Her seismologist brother Gus vanishes, wanted by the Cologne police. Caitlin's search for her brother – and his doppelgänger – earns her a bump on the head and a trip to the hospital. She believes Gus's disappearance and ruined reputation form part of a larger conspiracy. The police do not agree. Gus remains their primary suspect. With the help of the sexy aristocrat she's fallen for, Caitlin locates a vital witness: her brother's former lover. Can she prove Gus's innocence? When Caitlin arrives late to the rendezvous at Cologne's Gothic cathedral, an earthquake flings her into a bleak Otherworld. She finds the woman she arranged to meet – and a tall, gaunt wraith she has no desire to see. Primary Fault, Book One of the Schattenreich, a tale of seismology, Druids, and an evil blonde.

Book 3 of The Schattenreich Double Couple begins in Burg Lahn, the ancestral home of the von der Lahn family deep in the hear of the Rhineland, Germany. Finally reunited, Caitlin Schwarzbach and Hagen von der Lahn, newly returned from his journey deep into the Celtic Otherworld known as Ande-dubnos, seek to pick up the threads of their relationship. But treachery again thwarts their attempts to return to a semblance of normalcy when someone sets fire to the Burg Lahn woods. Science takes on the Otherworld when geophysicist Caitlin Schwarzbach strives to unravel the mysteries of the Schattenreich. But the Schattenreich refuses to cooperate. Double Couple: a fast-paced supernatural suspense that narrates the story of one woman's journey to overcome her fear, mend a broken heart, and solve the riddle of a 2,000-year old family curse.

Her bruises barely healed, Caitlin Schwarzbach needs time to settle into expatriate life with her brother Gus. Caitlin looks forward to her new job. She has new friends. She also has new enemies. And a new boyfriend. Hagen von der Lahn owns a haunted castle, a title, and the sexiest smile she's ever seen. Far from being settled, Caitlin's life has also become supernaturally complicated. Long-term goal: Accept a new paradigm that includes Celtic deities and ancient curses. Short-term goal: Choose between keeping Gus safe or learning the truth about her past and its implications for her future. When she learns about a hydrofracture experiment in Cologne being conducted by her enemies, Caitlin' short-term goal becomes dangerously acute. Book 2 of The Schattenreich series, Shaky Ground is a unique and gripping novel of suspense blended with contemporary Otherworld fantasy and a generous portion of real-world science.

Book 4 of The Schattenreich Caitlin von der Lahn. Data expert. Druid. Deceased. Stabbed through the heart by her worst adversary, Caitlin seeks a way to return to the waking world - and to life. She desperately wants the life taken from her in a brutal sacrifice on the summer solstice. She has embarked on her first journey. The Ankou. Death. Dreadful. Dangerous. The spectre she has feared since childhood has now transformed into a pointy-eared deity of beauty. He tells Caitlin about her choice - the choice of how she will lead her life. Caitlin's journey takes her through the reaches of Cernunnos's territory in Ande-dubnos and beyond, to face the fearsome entity who cursed the von der Lahn family 2000 years ago. The vengeful triple deity of war and fertility, Cathubodua reveals the secret of the curse and why Caitlin must bring it to an end. Returning to the living will soon be the least of Caitlin's problems.

Only two weeks remain until Caitlin and Hagen’s celebratory wedding. Afterwards, the von der Lahns must vanquish the ancestral family curse before Caitlin gives birth and Cathubodua, the Dark Queen, extracts her final revenge. Dire circumstance prevents Caitlin and the men she loves from channeling their combined shadowcraft into a desperate search for a cure: Dagmar Abel has vanished. As well as Caitlin’s twin, Kilhian ar C’hoed, sought for murder by the police. Düsseldorf Hauptkommissar Rehfurt would like nothing more than to prove that Caitlin and her brother engineered the disappearance of her deadly enemy. And to convict them of murder. Once the legal machinery cranks up, the von der Lahns have no choice but to see it through. Caitlin retains a thread of hope that an Iron Age inscription can remedy the curse. But Ankou, Lord of the Dead, has no intention of letting her slip through his powerful grasp.