"On ne choisit pas ce qui nous choisit." - We do not choose what chooses us.
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The Dark Photography Folio is one great big story separated into six sections. It begins as a romance but that just sets the stage. Sci-fi, fantasy, horror and thriller elements are all stirred together to create one of the most intoxicating literary cocktails you have ever read.
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Eyes of the Beholder
On ne choisit pas ce qui nous choisit.
We do not choose what chooses us.
There are photographers. And then there is Saxon Payne.
Others use technique. Saxon simply sees. And every woman who has ever looked back at him through his camera knows the difference — that rare and exquisite experience of being truly, fully seen.
It is, of course, completely ruinous.
When Juliette Burns walks into his studio, she thinks she's there to prove herself — to her world-famous photographer father and to everyone who ever doubted her. But then she meets Saxon. What ignites between them is inevitable, sublime, and only the beginning — because Juliette is carrying a secret she doesn't know she's keeping. Before she turned eight, her mother vanished her into a desert cult. All five hundred members subsequently disappeared — no bodies, no explanation, no trace. Only Juliette was left behind.
She has never looked back.
Because she can't remember.
She is about to.
Welcome to The Dark Photography Folio — six books, one universe, one of the most singular reading experiences you will ever have. It begins here, in Eyes of the Beholder, in the heat and glamour of a fashion photography studio. It then takes you places you have never dreamed, the same voice, the same wit, the same refusal to flinch, a guide on a story that expands into territory no genre has staked a claim on.
On ne choisit pas ce qui nous choisit.
We do not choose what chooses us.
Yet we are chosen.
You have been chosen.
Read it. I dare you.
Hands of the Maker
Saxon and Juliette are in Banff, shooting the most ambitious campaign of his career — a nanofabricator that will make every fashion house on earth obsolete overnight. The stakes are enormous, the location breathtaking, the cast extraordinary. Everything is in place for the greatest shoot of Saxon's life.
Then Persephone walks into their lives.
She is a woman unlike any Saxon has ever encountered — beautiful, deadly, and with martial skills that far surpass his own. What follows has no safe corners — between a man who is forever reaching, a woman who refuses to be left behind, and a force of nature who has never wanted a single thing.
Until now.
Around them the world is getting stranger. Ancient enemies are closing in. Betrayal and secrecy threaten everything. And Juliette's buried past simply...
Will.
Not.
Be.
Denied.
In Hands of the Maker, Book 2 of The Dark Photography Folio, the game doesn't just change. The entire board gets shattered.
You have been warned.
Mouth of the Muse
By now you must be asking yourself — where the Hell did all this come from?
Well, Reader. Or should I call you Rider?
You're about to find out.
In Mouth of the Muse, Book 3 of The Dark Photography Folio, the past isn't just backstory. It's a loaded shotgun that's about to go off — and Saxon? Juliette? Persephone? No one's safe. Because all of them are standing in the blast radius.
Saxon Payne has a history. You knew that. What you didn't know was how deep it goes, how dark it gets, or what it cost the people who shared it. Now that past has come calling — driven by a stolen piece of priceless nanotech and two ghosts from a road trip that took a sharp left at the Gates of Darkness.
Meanwhile Juliette, Maxine and Cassie are on a road trip of their own, hunting the truth about Juliette's mysterious past. And who her father really is.
They find it.
All of it.
Every. Last. Piece.
From the scorched, breathtaking beauty of the American Southwest to the Carnival at the End of Time that is Burning Man, and finally to a climax that... well... you're just going to have to trust me, aren't you.
And nothing — not one single thing — will ever be the same again.
Ready? Then take a deep breath.
The cliff beckons.
Heart of the Warrior
Welcome to Heart of the Warrior, Book 4 of The Dark Photography Folio.
This is the one where the Universe collects. Because there is something about wedded bliss that just seems to stick in its craw. But don't tell Saxon and Juliette that. If you've made it this far, maybe you figure you've earned a break, a little respite to catch your breath.
As if.
Get ready.
Someone with more money than God and considerably less mercy has decided that yes, you can buy a second life. They are right — because revenge is always worth coming back for. Meanwhile the nanotech begins to get ideas — sentient ideas. Erupt. Decide. Act. And a stadium full of people is about to find out exactly what that means. Then there is Haiku. An assassin whose skills are as beautiful and concise as her name. And Saxon Payne does a favor for a friend that leads him to a Red Door.
Beyond it lies a choice:
His soul. Or his word.
Saxon, Juliette and everyone they hold dear are about to be tested to their very limits.
Welcome to the Red Door.
You stand at the threshold.
Now all you have to do is open it.
Soul of the Saviour
The Lord Augustine and the Lady Vittoria request the honor of your presence at their Wedding
Venue: The House of Bardo
Date: Time is not observed in the Bardo. Please arrive promptly.
Dress: No hell-skins permitted. You must at least appear human.
Gifts: Sacrifice, virginity and compromise will be accepted but souls are, of course, preferred.
What to expect? Ceremony, combat, and deadly sin — all explored intimately.
Do you have any food allergies? We do not care.
Other guests? Saxon Payne and... well... you are going to have to show up to find that out, aren't you.
What to leave behind? Any idea that you think you know where this is going.
Please be advised that both Heaven and Hell have confirmed their attendance. The management accepts no responsibility for loss of life, sanity, memory, or anything you may have previously considered permanent, precious or sacred.
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Fall of the Assassin
I am going to tell you something I have never told anyone.
My name is Haiku. You know what I do. What you do not know is where I came from. What made me. And what it cost.
The streets of Bombay made me hard. The Shinobi made me lethal. And a girl with violet eyes who should have died in a Tokyo alley made me into something I had no training for.
Human.
For here is the Truth: I let her parents die though I could have intervened. Because I wanted her. For myself.
I am Haiku.
How could it be otherwise?
But everything has a price. And now that price would be shared by two. Because the Shinobi do not forgive and they never forget. They are coming with everything they have. Including the one person I never wanted to face again.
And what of Saxon Payne? I... do not know. Something happened to Charlie and I and we returned to the place we called home. But now it isn't. I have had dreams. Of Saxon.
They are terrifying.
In Fall of the Assassin, Book 6 of The Dark Photography Folio, everything converges.
You never had a choice. You never wanted one.
So what are you waiting for?