A.Z. Louise

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About A.Z.

A.Z. Louise is an author, poet, and artistic nuisance living in a cheese lover's paradise. In their spare time, they are a collector of fountain pens, impractical hobbies, and useless facts, all of which they are guilty of inserting into their written works. They also write Shakespeare retellings under the pen name T.O. Tate.

Bitterbound

Kin Jole is an indentured assassin, stripped of her soul and her conscience. When Kin is ordered to kill sorcerer Verias Hartwell, she sees his power as an opportunity to do the one thing that will set her free—reclaim and destroy her own soul.Kin offers Verias a trade; spare his life in exchange for his help on her most dangerous mission yet. But the closer Verias gets to Kin’s soul, the closer he gets to her darkest secrets. And if the enemies closing in on all sides don’t destroy them, those secrets just might.

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Off-Time Jive

Set during an alternate Harlem Renaissance where new forms of magic created by Black joy strain against the white establishment, Bessie Knox is an investigator of magical mysteries. When her old colleagues at the Bronx Academy of Magic start turning up dead, Knox's weakened abilities are pushed to their limits, but if she can't solve the case, she'll be next.

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Shardfall

Shardfall is a series of three postapocalyptic novella-length Shakespeare retellings written under the pen name T.O. Tate.

• A Concrete Crown: MacBeth Retold
• A Starless Eye: Othello Reloaded
• A Seething Heart: Ophelia Requited

A Concrete Crown: MacBeth Retold

Shardfall book One

Micah, a seasoned scout, has seen firsthand the dangers of a desolate city corrupted by a mysterious contaminant, but as the contamination spreads, his cousin Dawson only grows more convinced that it’s safer inside than out. When their battle of wills escalates from argument to blackmail and murder, Micah must ask if his motives are as noble as he wants to believe.

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A Starless Eye: Othello Reloaded

Shardfall book Two

Ollie, a former sniper, has been forced into retirement by a mysterious disease known as sliversickness that slowly eats away at her right eye. A perpetual outsider in an isolated underground military base, Ollie’s only solace is her lover, DJ. But that relationship is forbidden, putting Ollie’s already uncertain future in jeopardy, and her only protection is DJ, whose fidelity has been called into question.

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A Starless Eye: Othello Reloaded

Shardfall book Two

Orris, afflicted with a mysterious disease called sliversickness since birth, finds themself in the middle of a struggle for power between their lover Hunter and his stepfather Charles. Rumors of ghosts creep through the Squall’s passageways, and Hunter’s behavior becomes more and more erratic. Everyone looks to Orris to help him, worried that he, like so many others, has fallen ill. But as vines begin to stir inside their chest, Hunter kills Orris’s father, leaving vengeance as their only option.

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