World of the Demonverse
This is a collection of loosely (or not so loosely in some cases) linked stories. Often you will see new voices coming to the fore, while also seeing familiar friends from other books.
As viewpoint and world view change, so do the ideas of what other people seem like alter. Giving greater depth to characters that you have already seen through varied eyes.
Each book cover is a link to its Amazon page
Demon Girl
Keeley Thomson - Book 1 | Demonverse - Book 1
Publication Date: January 21, 2012 Pages: ~153
Who do you think you are? No, really, think about it for a second.
It's not a hard question for most people. You are what you do. Who you know. The sum of your potential. In the end, it likely doesn't matter anyway. You just are.
Keeley Thomson knows who she is. She's a completely normal sixteen year old schoolgirl. At least that's what she tries to tell herself in the dark and quiet moments of her outwardly normal life.
The reality is a little different, what with her ability to know all about a person with a single touch, and habit of seeing the world for what it truly is, rather than the illusion she's supposed to see according to society.
In other words she's a freak. A fact that she's well and truly resigned herself to. Isolated by her strangeness, trying desperately to avoid even normal situations in order to stay halfway sane.
Now though, Darla Gibson, the school's head cheerleader, has taken an unnatural interest in Keeley, who may be the only person in the world that can see her for what she really is. Something not exactly human.
Keeley needs to adapt fast, because the world is far different than even she knows, and no one is exactly what they seem anymore. Possibly not even herself.
Author's Edition: Demon Girl
Keeley Thomson: Author's Edition - Book 1 | Demonverse - Book 1
Publication Date: September 1, 2022 Pages: ~204
When Keeley started at her new school, she expected there to be problems. Not being invited to the dance, or having cold fries for lunch.
Instead, she met Darla Gibson and her friends. Pretty, popular, and definitely up to something bad.
A thing that Darla seems to want Keeley for, personally.
Keelzebub
Keeley Thomson - Book 2 | Demonverse - Book 2
Publication Date: April 1, 2012 Pages: ~180
Keeley Thomson is fighting to learn as much as she can in order to survive. That sounds like pretty much what everyone is doing doesn't it? As a young Greater Demon though it means a lot more, since almost everyone in existence wants her dead.
Or they will if they find out what she is.
As a new threat comes, Keeley has to come up with a new plan and teach the world why she's called the "Mistress of Souls", before it's too late.
Author's Edition: Keelzebub
Keeley Thomson: Author's Edition - Book 2 | Demonverse - Book 2
Publication Date: September 1, 2022 Pages: ~222
Keeley Thomson might be a demon, but she isn't ready for it.
Then, who would be?
For the time being, her best plan is to keep trying not to die.
If she can make that happen, she'll be golden.
Mistress Of Souls
Keeley Thomson - Book 3 | Demonverse - Book 3
Publication Date: August 29, 2012 Pages: ~249
The life of a Greater Demon isn't nearly as easy as it first seemed to Keeley. In fact it seems almost impossible as her world implodes on itself and everything she thought she had a handle on turns out to be slipping away before her eyes.
Her "big brother" is gunning for her sister, Darla, and not too concerned about losing a few more family members in the process.
At the same time, her human father, Charles, manages to make the biggest mistake of his life, which costs Keeley and her mother more than anyone should have to pay.
In the end there's only one chance for the Demon girl to make it in a world that she's totally unprepared for. She has to prove to everyone that "Mistress of Souls" isn't just a name.
Author's Edition: Mistress of Souls
Keeley Thomson: Author's Edition - Book 3 | Demonverse - Book 3
Publication Date: September 1, 2022
How does a sixteen-year-old girl demon survive when everyone in the world hates young people of her species?
Fake being older.
Sure. That will be easy.
But Keeley just might have the chops to pull it off. Since the alternative is probably dying, it's worth trying.
Shortcuts
Other Places - Book 1 | Demonverse - Book 4
Publication Date: December 3, 2012 Pages: ~258
Nothing is as you think, or is it?
Fifteen years ago a young boy was stolen from his home in Wisconsin, coming back sixteen months later with no memory of what happened. It was a traumatic event that left him insane, but functional. If barely.
Now, Zack Hartley has to find a job or face starvation as the Christmas season approaches, which leads him to take a very special shortcut through a rift in space, to a very unusual shopping center. A place filled with supernatural creatures and dangers that he would never have imagined being in his own home town.
If he can keep his job things might just work out though, even if he is the only human being in existence that can walk the Nodes that connect places without penalty. Luckily he has some friends to help him out. Like his roommate Troy, the strange and interesting girl that works at the shop across from his...
And the voice in his head.
Christmas of the Vampire
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Stand Alone Books - Book 1 | Demonverse - Book 5
Publication Date: December 3, 2012 Pages: ~91
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. Frosty the Snowman. A Christmas Carol. In each generation a story is born that shapes the minds of millions. This one will warp those minds, incredibly.
When Richard Swerlin, the United States only openly Vampire Congressman, receives a letter from a little girl, he really wants to ignore it. After all, five year old kids don't vote, and only a few of the words are legible at all. No one would blame him for setting it aside.
Except that the letter has things only a few might recognize. The words "help" for instance as well as, "Greater Demon", and a scent of pure fear.
A Vampire is no match for a Greater Demon though, so he has to turn to the one being that might aid him in this task. The Mistress of Souls. The most feared Greater Demon of them all.
Now Richard and a ragtag group of unusual characters must seek to not only save little Maci, but Santa Claus himself, and if they fail, it isn't just an orphaned child that dies, but the spirit of the season.
Demon Trap
Keeley Thomson - Book 4 | Demonverse - Book 6
Publication Date: April 12, 2013 Pages: ~173
No one said that life as a Greater Demon would be fair, and Keeley Thomson is feeling the pinch as someone tries very hard to kill her.
Now she has to uncover even more secrets about her world and find new ways to survive as the clock ticks down and her greatest secret is exposed to the world. Which is exactly what she needed, of course.
Can Americas favorite schoolgirl triumph in this new situation? Can she even survive the week?
Only if Keeley can figure out some way to become a lot more than the world's newest baby Demon in time and work out who the shadowy figures behind her current problems really are. It isn't likely, but, as everyone knows, unlikely is what her kind does best.
Former ASIN: B00CCGIULQ
Author's Edition: Demon Trap
Keeley Thomson: Author's Edition - Book 4 | Demonverse - Book 6
Publication Date: September 1, 2022
How do you drive a demon mad?
Very, very carefully.
Road Blocks
Other Places - Book 2 | Demonverse - Book 7
Publication Date: July 12, 2013 Pages: ~238
Zack Hartley is just a man.
He has a simple job, working in a candle store in a mostly empty mall, a roommate to help make the ends meet, and the ability to walk magical lines that take him places instantly.
He also has a split personality that thinks he might be a homosexual, and a few pesky demons hanging around far too much for his liking.
So when there's a sudden attack at a different mall, Zack is asked to help sort things out, which is where the fun really begins.
Because it seems that some people have taken it into their heads to think that he, the humble candle man, is a demon too. In fact, some of them are banking on it.
That means no end of trouble, if he can't get it sorted out fast. Possibly even a war.
No one sane wants that. Even Zack doesn't, and he hasn't claimed to be in his right mind in a long, long time.
Friendzoned
Stand Alone Books - Book 5 | Demonverse - Book 8
Publication Date: August 12, 2013 Pages: ~143
(Ties in with Keeley Thomson & Other Places but is separate from both series.)
Becky Hoader is totally and truly in love with her friend Mitch. The only problem is that to him she's always just been one of the gang, if that. Now with the end of her high school career coming fast she has very little time to change the situation at all, before all hope is gone.
Unfortunately Mitch loves Keeley Thomson, the new girl in school who's everything a guy could want. Thin, pretty and smart, all rolled into one perfect Mitch fantasy fulfilling package. It would be enough to make a girl hate her, if it weren't for the fact that Keeley is one of Becky's new best friends, and willing to do some truly outrageous things to help her get the man of her dreams.
In the end this is a story about coming of age in the modern world, dealing with the fact that adulthood hits us all, and the knowledge that love, while powerful, can sometimes be far different than what it first seems.
(Contains some content of a sexual nature)
Detours
Other Places - Book 3 | Demonverse - Book 9
Publication Date: January 18, 2014 Pages: ~289
Are you ready to read something that will change how you think about reality? Because here's what you've been looking for.
What would you do if you found out that not only were you a Greater Demon, but that your insanity meant that almost everyone in the world would want you dead?
Zack Hartley opened a book store. One with a little cafe in the back, and a very special travel agency on the side. One that can take people absolutely anywhere.
Now he just has to get his life together while everything else in his world falls apart. It will mean wrangling overly enthusiastic Succubi, Mages and Vampires, as well as members of the general public and the local police force. Worst of all, his relatives.
If he fails, then he dies. If he succeeds... Well, then he still probably dies.
Who could resist odds like that? Not someone that doesn't get a choice in the matter. If Zack can hang on long enough, maybe he'll learn to become something more than anyone thought he could be? That's the plan. If he can pull it off.
Demon Bait
Keeley Thomson - Book 5 | Demonverse - Book 10
Publication Date: May 31, 2014 Pages: ~191
The book that you've been waiting for.
The exciting conclusion to the series!
Keeley Thomson knew the world was a strange place. As a Greater Demon, she understands what reality really was. It's one of the defining traits of her kind.
Only now the entire world is changing, in ways she never would have guessed it could. It seems that Demon's aren't the top of the universal food chain after all, which can really set a girl back. That means Keeley has to learn some hard lessons fast, and do some things that she probably can't survive, or all of reality itself might just not make it.
Like it's her job to save it?
That's obviously a mistake, but it seems that someone very important thinks she's just the right person for the job.
Former ASIN: B00KP1261A
Author's Edition: Demon Bait
Keeley Thomson: Author's Edition - Book 5 | Demonverse - Book 10
Publication Date: September 1, 2022
Being an adult means doing all the normal adult things. Making new friends. Leaving home. Establishing a territory and of course, taking slaves to manage it. All the demons things.
Of course, most demons do that when they're nearly a hundred years old and Keeley is only sixteen. Still, you do what the demons lords say, or else.
Finally Dead
Eve Benson: Vampire - Book 1 | Demonverse - Book 11
Publication Date: January 27, 2015 Pages: ~241
After years of work, Eve Benson is finally dead. A Vampire at last.
Still, waking up on your first day of unlife, to find out that you've been kidnapped, and that your unknown captors have a delicious young thing tied up for you, ready to eat, isn't exactly normal.
It's just the start of the adventure though, because once you die, life is never going to be the same again.
Dead and Everything
Eve Benson: Vampire - Book 2 | Demonverse - Book 12
Publication Date: January 27, 2015 Pages: ~227
Eve Benson, the world's hardest working baby vampire isn't going to be left to the normal course of things. As a new member of the undead she should be in for years of beatings, starvation, and possibly some other things that her parents wouldn't be happy to hear about.
Thanks to the training she put herself through though, Eve is a different kind of Vamp. More disciplined, focused, and of course, totally hot.
That won't get her any slack though, from her mentor, the Vampire Council, or whoever it is that's trying to destroy their entire community without warning. Because the worst thing imaginable happens, leaving Eve, and all her friends totally exposed. The humans know about them, and aren't forgetting fact like they normally do. So guess who ends up in the middle of the mess?
Worse, there's only one kind of being that can truly be responsible for a plot that convoluted and dangerous. Which means trying to survive, because no one wants to mess with a Demon.
Not if they want to survive.
Dead Certain
Eve Benson: Vampire - Book 3 | Demonverse - Book 13
Publication Date: January 27, 2015 Pages: ~309
The world's most intrepid vampire is tossed from the frying pan into the crucible in this stunning conclusion to the Trilogy.
Eve, working her day, and night, job is given a new task by the Vampire Council. If she can survive it, her fortune will be secured. If not, she'll end up dead for the final time.
It isn't enough to get her killed though, and her enemies might well end up being very different than she thought they were to start with.
Things that even the most awesome vampire girl in existence might just have a bit of trouble with. Luckily for her, she has friends, and a better chance of saving the day than most would. Now, if it will just turn out to be enough.
Among the Living
Tyler G - Book 1 | Demonverse - Book 14
Publication Date: June 30, 2015 Pages: ~258
When Tyler finds a strange young woman being attacked, he tries his best to save her from death, only to realize too late that she's a Vampire being pursued by her own kind. In moments his life is turned upside down, and he's forced to go from being a regular boy that just finished high school into something very different.
A clerk in a bookstore.
Still, a job is a job, it's not fast food, and Ty Gartner is nothing if not hard working.
In this strange new world he finds out a lot about himself, and discovers that what he thought his world was about never truly existed. Not even for a moment.
Now he has to come to terms with that. Because no matter how strange things get, a body still has to make a living.
Even if that's impossible for some.
Living Proof
Tyler G - Book 2 | Demonverse - Book 15
Publication Date: June 30, 2015 Pages: ~239
Having friends is important in life. Even if "life" is a slightly off-kilter phrasing for what Tyler Gartner is doing these days.
Still, after managing to break up a cultish prison camp for kids, he finds himself with an offer that he never really expected, and that he can't really refuse. To join a band run by a Greater Demon. Not that it will get him out of doing anything else.
Taking a chance, he steps into a new world. One that will change everything he's known.
Forever.
The Living and the Dead
Tyler G - Book 3 | Demonverse - Book 16
Publication Date: June 30, 2015 Pages: ~262
In this stunning and universe shaking series summation, Tyler must discover the truth of his nature, conquer it, and become something that the world has never seen before.
Then the fun really begins.
There's no way for him to get out of this alive.
Naturally.
After all, there never really was.
Scales
Avery Rome - Book 1 | Demonverse - Book 17
Publication Date: July 30, 2016 Pages: ~280
After murdering six people, Avery Rome was sent off to learn the ways of the Chosen. Twin souled Shapeshifters that each have a wonderful gift, the ability to become an animal at will. Unlike the curse that Avery has, becoming a Death Serpent. The vilest of all things, according to her old clan. A Dragon.
Cast into the world, she must make her way as best she can. Protecting those around her. From herself. After finding a wonderful gift, that of Line Walking, she seeks to aid those who have taken her in, just as the Humans attack, for unknown reasons.
Now it is up to one girl to find those who would kill innocents, before they are forgotten by a world cast into a war they cannot afford.
Dragon's Eye
Avery Rome - Book 2 | Demonverse - Book 18
Publication Date: November 14, 2016 Pages: ~238
What's a Dragon to do?
Avery Rome is going on an adventure. One that no Shifter has ever been on before. Not openly. She's going to high school. With Humans.
The goal is to make new friends, while balancing her life and duties to her nation. It isn't going to be as easy as all that however, since her new school isn't what it seems, and many of her classmates aren't human beings at all...
Dragon Queen
Avery Rome - Book 3 | Demonverse - Book 19
Publication Date: April 26, 2017 Pages: ~296
Avery Rome isn't just an average girl... She's more than anyone could have ever imagined...
She's a Shifter, a Dragon and a Line Walker. A being capable of traveling to any world imaginable. That means a lot of people want to use her. For her skills. Her talents...
Even her looks.
It's a thing that even a good girl can't allow for very long. Not if she wants to survive.
Look out reality, because Avery Rome isn't going to let you kick her around anymore.
Because there is no other way than for her to make it.
Troy Ounce
Phillip S. Power: Lopez Time - Book 1 | Demonverse - Book 20
Publication Date: September 24, 2017 Pages: ~209 (as Power, Phillip S.)
With Magical attacks plaguing his city, Troy Lopez must find the culprits before even more people die. Why? Because as the only openly vampire police officer in the world, even after disclosure, he's been put on one of the very few supernatural divisions anywhere. Meaning it's his job.
It also doesn't hurt that the demon whose area he works in has been targeted as well, seemingly by the same group.
If he and his new partner can't figure the case out in time, things might well end up going very badly, indeed.
Hell, In a Troy
Phillip S. Power: Lopez Time - Book 2 | Demonverse - Book 21
Publication Date: September 24, 2017 Pages: ~213 (as Power, Phillip S.)
Ancient gods, mages, vampire bars and doing a job that is far less than fun. That's the life Troy Lopez, vampire police officer, finds himself in after taking his new job. It doesn't help that multiple demons seem to have taken an interest in what he's doing in his new city. That never really seems to end well, in his experience.
Staying alive starts to take on a new meaning for a dead man, as he struggles to survive and protect the people around him. Thankfully, he has some friends to help him out.
Some very unlikely, very powerful, friends.
The Gates of Troy
Phillip S. Power: Lopez Time - Book 3 | Demonverse - Book 22
Publication Date: September 24, 2017 Pages: ~191 (as Power, Phillip S.)
Troy's secret is starting to leak out. Into his own mind. Nothing he knew as a simple police officer and vampire council servant is going to protect him from the new and most important truth of all...
The Ancient gods, once trapped away from the world in a cage made by one of their own, are loose. Worse than that, they all seem to think that Troy is the person to see about taking over the new world that has sprung up in their absence. His world.
Survival isn't likely. Nothing is assured.
Luckily, he has a trick or two up his sleeve...
Always a Demon
Once a Demon - Book 1 | Demonverse - Book 23
Publication Date: May 5, 2018 Pages: ~214
When there is no hope left, you have to make your own...
At sixteen, Keeley Thomson found out that worst thing imaginable. That she was a demon. Then, over a decade and a half later, the veil over the minds and eyes of humanity suddenly, and rather unexpectedly, lifted. What once was occult is now a part of everyone's daily lives. Which, naturally is bringing massive problems in more than one way.
So, at thirty-two she's finally giving up her old demonic lifestyle, attempting to become something totally different. Herself. The lovable and happy normal super human girl that she always should have been.
The only problem is that an ancient darkness is returning to the lands of men and only a former demon is going to be able to do anything about it. At the same time, all too many around her won't allow her to do her new job... Saving their lives.
After all, once a demon, always a demon.
Evil is...
Once a Demon - Book 2 | Demonverse - Book 24
Publication Date: September 20, 2018 Pages: ~227
It isn't easy, changing your entire life from that of an evil being to something more...
Normal.
Keeley Thomson can assure you of that, first hand. After half a life spent being a Greater Demon, one of the most feared and hated creatures in existence, she finds herself in the delicate position of attempting to become... Good. If you can believe that.
Or at least something like it.
Now, something dark from another world has come to interrupt her life, making it just a bit harder for her to become the person she wants to be.
Which may not end well for anyone standing in her way.
As Evil Does
Once a Demon - Book 3 | Demonverse - Book 25
Publication Date: July 31, 2019 Pages: ~179
Can a bad girl turn good?
Once a Demon, Keeley Thomson must struggle to find her new place in the world. Re-branding herself as a Wise One is a start, even if no one is buying that one just yet. At the same time, she has to learn to become something new in a world that hates her, for all too many good reasons.
If she doesn't, then a war might well start, coming from the most unexpected direction ever...
Traits Book:
Other Places - Book 4 | Demonverse - Book 26
Publication Date: November 9, 2019 Pages: ~122
Traits Book: For Official Use Only: Shifter Nation
This is the official Shifter Nation Traits book, used by commanders and mercenary personnel as a guide toward managing their troops correctly. It is filled with information that cannot be found in any other location including:
Animal type traits.
Vampire traits.
Mage traits.
Human traits.
Hsreth traits.
And much more.
Also information about specific individuals that is not available to anyone else, outside of this work, provided by the Wise One Zack Hartley, specifically for Shifter President Calley Hale.
This one of a kind Official Guide it about the Shifter Nation and related races as found in the "Keeleyverse" / "Demonverse". It is an entertaining read, even if you haven't read the other works yet. It is a must have, if you have read them though.