Madder Novels
Characters from my novels The Line Madder and The Madder Queen.
Long ago, a family's bloodline was fated to split, with one child creating the Good Line and the other starting the Bad Line. Each of the children carried a special energy that allowed them to transform, and both the Good Line and the Bad Line were destined to fight. Seth Madder was not born into either of these bloodlines. After losing his parents, he doesn't seem to be fated for much besides living out his days in a dull apartment. That is, until Ser H. Circuit recruits him to assist her in the conflict between the Good and Bad Lines. She gives him a strange energy called Blood and prepares him to fight to preserve the Good Line, but neither Seth nor Ser are expecting to become the enemies of the terrible Darian Apophis, who wants Ser and her sister dead to prevent a future war. This leads Seth on a journey to assist his companion, defeat Apophis, and piece together a family to make up for the one that was stolen from him. Seth's adversary is a strong one, though. How long will it take to finally defeat him, if Seth can even defeat him at all?
Upon witnessing the theft of a crown of jade, former queen and actress Oriel Madder is poisoned with the appearance of strange moonflower vines. Bestowed upon her by the thief and new queen Clara Lusine, they slowly drain Oriel’s memory of her time as the wretched Queen Sachmis and her affections for the late Eleida Iltaski. And yet, as her past is stolen from her, a potential future appears in the form of the spirit known as the Lighter Lady, who brings more questions with her than the answers she can give.
Desperate to recover what she has lost of herself, Oriel seeks the cure to the identity poison of Clara, who bears a soul more tainted than Oriel’s own, all while uncovering the secrets of the Lighter Lady. But for what she loses to the poison, she regains something greater than she could have ever imagined, bringing its own trials and a call for the restoration of a time that Oriel thought she would never have the chance to see again. But can the past truly be restored, or must Oriel move forward with an impossible future?