Dee J Holmes
 

Meet dynamic characters and the worlds they challenge.

In my stories, you’ll explore worlds plunging into a zombie apocalypse and fantastical realms full of ancient magic, you’ll thwart alien invasions and face overwhelming odds in sci fi miliary battlefields.

No matter the genre, you’ll find dynamic characters, hilarious banter and clever plots that our heroes race against the clock to unravel. My characters are people who push against the boundaries of their worlds, fall in love despite the odds and challenge the status quo.

My characters are real and funny and complex. They’re people who you’ll want to share a drink—or a bed—with. Who you’ll carry with you long after the pages have closed.

 

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The Pandora Strain

Jane Finch wishes her problems ended with a bad commute and no coffee. Instead, she and Schrodinger, the Great Dane she’s supposed to be training, emerge from a locked room to discover a city changed for the dead.

Apex Astral Warriors

All five surviving Apex’ir warriors have sealed their faces behind battle helms and have one mission: kill the race that destroyed their home world. They’ll hunt until they die, unless human mates change their stars…

The Four Houses

For over a thousand years the Four Houses of Magic have remained apart. Never to touch, never to speak, never to see. From fae to vampire to werewolf to witch, these rules guide their lives—and those rules have just been broken.

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THE FOUR HOUSES

“Holmes takes us on an action-packed adventure through an elegant and well-crafted world you’ll never want to leave.”

~ Saranna DeWylde, author of Rise of the Saints

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The Four Houses

 Driven by a lust for powerful blood, the first LeFey plunged the Four Houses of Magic into a century of conflict. Survivors of the Great War, desperate to repair their tattered worlds, signed a treaty banning any contact between the Houses of fae, werewolf, vampire and witch. And for over a thousand years that treaty has held strong...

Join Rose, Dar, Sebastian and Raina—a witch, a werewolf, a vampire and a royal fae—as they face the turmoil created as their divided worlds collide. Instead of returning to the past, they stand against the forces of evil in all their Houses and fight for a better future for all.

An Inheritance of Curses

The Four Houses of Magic—light-seeking fae, blood-fueled vampires, loyal werewolves, and power-driven witches—barely survived a century of conflict. Now they exist divided, bound by a single promise: never The Four shall meet.

That rule has just been broken.

Heir to a brutal legacy, witch Rose LeFey is determined to confront her aunt and prove she’s finished with blood magic. Instead, she finds the basement full of prisoners: a sarcastic vampire staked to a table; a beautiful, defiant fae princess in an iron cage; and an insanely attractive werewolf chained to the wall.

He’s massive, covered in fur, and furious at being held captive.

She can’t look away—even if she should.

Contact between the Houses is strictly forbidden. But Rose can’t leave any of them at her aunt’s mercy.

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Those Curses We Had Buried

The Four Houses of Magic walk together once again. After a thousand years of separation, a witch, a werewolf, a fae and a vampire stood at the gates of the fae city and defeated a rising darkness. Yet the threat isn't over, and the true danger lies buried much deeper…

Rose LeFey wishes the darkness ended with her aunt, but it rages on—the conspiracy behind her aunt's rampage and the shadowy figures who aided that carnage. Not to mention Rose's own burning desire to use her reclaimed blood magic.

Worst of all, the forbidden bond she shares with the werewolf Dar is growing stronger.

The trail leads Rose, her allies, and the werewolf she wants more than anything to the one place she absolutely can't touch him: home. New Orleans.

But the center of witch governance in North America is not the city she left.

As hidden enemies draw close, Rose and her friends discover the conspiracy runs deeper than they'd imagined—all the way into the grave.

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A Curse In The Dark

The Four Houses descend into chaos, and two unlikely heroes—a human nurse and a vampire mercenary—are trapped in the depths. Pawns in a bigger game. Predator and prey. Unless they defy their natures and change the fate of their worlds.

All Laine O'Callaghan wants with New Orleans is to locate the thief that stole from her and reclaim her family's heirlooms. Then the Irishwoman's bus is attacked and she's kidnapped by vampires. Bleeding vampires!

Monsters are real, and her thief is their boss.

Now she's trapped in an underground lair, being offered up as a prize to the strongest fighter.

Vampire Mitrick Black is missing an eye, an arm, and a chunk of his leg—and he won't back down from a fight. Brutally injured, the gun-for-hire has one chance to survive: reclaim his position at his evil employer's by winning a human blood-servant.

A human whose fierce spirit makes him want to protect her at any cost.

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Those Curses That Would Rise

The Four Houses of Magic are poised at the brink of war. Sickness brews beneath the streets of New Orleans, and ancient enemies claw their way to the surface. And former allies are forced to fight for their future from opposite sides.

Blood witch Rose LeFey is playing a deadly game beneath New Orleans. 

Separated from her werewolf mate and trapped within her enemy’s walls, she’s pretending to switch sides while feeding vital information to her allies above. But how can she prove her loyalty to her enemy’s cause without actually serving it?

The need to reach his beloved mate is tearing Dar apart. Yet he has to lead the fight above ground—more, he has to build an army he can trust. No simple feat, as his enemies are corrupting the local werewolves and vampires.

To gain the information her mate and friends need, Rose has to unleash the full might of her blood magic. But will that save what she loves—or will it drive her further into darkness?

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The Heart Of All Curses

War has claimed The Four Houses of Magic. Despite all efforts to stop it, an ancient power is rising beneath New Orleans. Neither witch, nor fae, nor vampire, or werewolf—the true enemy is older and deadlier than any realized.

Still trapped in her enemy’s lair, blood witch Rose LeFey pretends to support her enemy while fighting even harder to return to her mate. 

But the gathering dark has other plans. 

Her enemy wants her—and her magic—for itself. Needs that magic to unleash its final strike. To escape that fate, she has to embrace powers beyond her control and trust her mate and friends will reach her in time.

Leading the charge above ground, Dar must draw up an Alpha’s strength. Being separated from his mate is agony. But an Alpha must protect all of his pack, and his allies need him to stand firm. The vampire Sebastian is battling past demons, and the fae Raina is listening to shadows—and somehow they must gather their people, convince them to fight.

At the end of all things, the Four Houses must stand united—or they’ll fall forever.

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apex astral hunters

“Khaz is insanely delicious and I want one.”

~ my editor

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Apex Astral Hunters

A band of intergalactic hunters, locked inside their helmets, with no hope of a future…

With no planet, no hope of finding a mate, they have but one mission: hunt down and kill the evil species that destroyed their home world. They’ll hunt until they die, unless unexpected human mates change their stars.

Destination Alien Bride

Journalist Brooklyn Tate came to this Caribbean island to blow the lid off a money laundering scheme at a destination wedding—instead, she discovers a bodysnatcher invasion straight from her nightmares and a hot alien warrior sent to stop them.

The interstellar hottie claims he wants a mate for life—but he also acts like humans are barely evolved gerbils. How can she possibly be this grumpy goliath’s match?

Khaz is one of only five surviving Apex’ir warriors. Locked inside his helmet, he’s determined to hunt down the parasitic aliens responsible for destroying his planet. He thought he’d cut down any humans necessary to kill his enemies, the Fever. Then he meets Brooklyn. The interfering female has his protective instincts firing, and his body aching for more. But can a human truly be his mate?

To claim an impossible future, Khaz must discover whether Brooklyn’s touch can free him from his helm. But their enemies are closing in. Will their passion set the stars alight, or will the Fever burn them up before they can unmask the heart of the infestation.

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Destination Alien Mate

Kimani Jones is determined to uncover a criminal conspiracy at Yellowhammer & Co., only to discover a bodysnatcher invasion. And that’s before an alien warrior smashes through a window to take her on the joyride of her life.

The intergalactic badass insists she’s his mate. But she won’t abandon her town to the parasitic invaders—even if her smoking-hot blue bodyguard is making her second guess her commitments.

One of only five surviving Apex’ir warriors, Gladius has vowed to hunt his infectious enemy, the Fever. They corrupt the local population, and he’ll destroy every drone in his path. So when his brother demands he rescue a human woman from a backwater settlement, he despises the distraction. Until he sees Kimani, and every protective instinct in his body is set ablaze.

Locked inside his helmet, Gladius knows only his fated mate can set him free and give him a future. He’s sure Kimani is the one. He’ll stop at nothing to claim her—that is, if the Fever haven’t already infected her. Because she’s hearing their voices in her head, and she might be a trap.

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Destination Alien Treasure

Archeologist Temperance Vale is hot on the trail of alien artifacts. She’s ready to make the find of a lifetime in an ancient temple—until she discovers her dig site is overrun by evil body snatchers and she escapes into the arms of a muscled alien warrior.

Irax of the Apex’ir is the only one of his brothers who can enjoy no-strings attachments. Not that he’s interested. He came to earth to do one thing: kill his enemy, the infectious Fever. Then he saves Temperance. Brilliant and fiery, she’s like nothing he’s seen in a thousand galaxies—and she might be the distraction that gets him killed.

On the run in the long-buried ancient temple and tangled in growing desire, they struggle to reach the heart of the temple before their enemies. That site holds the key to the Fever’s power. And if Temperance and Irax fail to stop them, the Fever will burn across the galaxy.

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Destination Alien Captive

Time is running out for astrobiologist Harper Blackwell. Nothing on earth has been able to cure her rare brain disorder, and a top-secret project offers the chance of a lifetime: studying an alien life form, and potentially finding a cure for her disease. Only the body on the sterile slab isn’t an amoeba or oversized tardigrade—it’s a massive, muscle-bound alien.

It runs against everything she believes in to experiment on a sentient being, especially one that sparks an impossible yearning within her. But if she leaves, she can't help him or anyone else—including herself.

D’tan of the Apex’ir has longed for a mate ever since discovering his kind were compatible with humans. Then he awakens strapped to a table in a human lab. His helm—the one thing that can identify his true mate—is cut from his head. Through the pain, his gaze latches onto one of the figures looming over him, and both his hearts stutter. No! He will not long for his captor. It’s a cruel trap set by his enemies—the insidious Fever, who have infiltrated the secret facility. Except when the testing becomes torture, she does the unthinkable and frees him.

Now two enemies—doctor and specimen—must uncover the deadly research brewing inside the lab. D’tan cannot trust the attraction burning between them, but accepting their bond might be the only way to stop the lab’s sickness from swallowing the world.

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The pandora strain

“Unique and excellent.”

~ Debra B

“Best zombie story ever.”

~ Max Ryder

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 Take a Walk In Undead Shoes

Enter the world of The Pandora Strain: Zombie Road, where a dog trainer is caught in the middle of a zombie outbreak. With her trusty Great Dane at her side and a strange zombie trailing in her wake, she’ll make her way across Downtown to the only shelter she’s certain exists: her dad’s bunker. Readers are raving about this unique take on the zombie genre.

“What's not to like? This book has everything. Jane is a young woman who is right at the beginning of the weird zombie apocalypse. Along with a gorgeous great dane they fight their way through this strange situation filled with death at every turn. There is an unusual ally but it takes awhile for Jane to realize not everything is as it appears. 10 stars”

Three Days In Undead Shoes

One woman.
One Great Dane.
And a zombie above the rest.

Jane Finch wishes her problems ended with a bad commute and no coffee. But when she and her beloved Great Dane, Schrodinger, emerge from a locked room they discover a city changed for the undead.

Zombies are everywhere. Some are endlessly cycling through their last actions, others have turned feral—and hungry. Jane and Schroddie’s best chance for survival? Reaching her parents’ bunker on the city’s north shore.

Not an easy commute on foot—when surrounded by zombies.

Dodging stray bullets and feral zombies is one thing. But soon Jane realizes one of the zombies is following her. Built like a tank, silent as the grave, his attention never waivers. Wherever she goes, he’s there. If she hides, he finds her. There’s no fighting him, no escape.

He’s not like the others—and he might be Jane’s only hope for survival.

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Three Weeks In Undead Shoes

Jane Finch is trapped in a bunker with a zombie. Grey saved her life, but she’s got no idea how to manage him in an enclosed space. Especially when he’s built like a superhero and very hungry…

The challenge of sharing close quarters with a zombie gets even more complicated when Jane tells her parents about her new arrangement—and they've got a surprise for her, too. Staying in the bunker isn't an option, because the Americans are threatening to nuke the entire area. Grey is regaining pieces of his humanity, but a rescue team won’t trust him. Or make space for her Great Dane, Schroddie. And Jane won't leave either of them behind.

Rescue or not, Jane, Schroddie and Grey have to get out of the blast radius.

A stolen car and an overprotective zombie get her and Schroddie all the way to the forward base—a base they find overrun with zombies. She grows closer with Grey and the lines of their relationship blur. She knows they'll survive as long as they're together—then Jane and Schroddie are kidnapped by power-hungry insurgents.

Grey will follow.
He will get Jane back.
Even if it means unleashing the monster inside him.

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Three Months In Undead Shoes

Forced apart.
Hunted by unseen danger.
The only way to survive is together.

After a harrowing journey through infected territory, Jane Finch, her loyal Great Dane, and her equally protective almost-zombie Grey have reached the military base in the mountains. It’s supposed to be safe. But the last thing they can do is drop their guard. Surrounded by soldiers, reeling from her first kiss with Grey and the news that he has a wife, Jane is separated from Grey. The loss leaves her aching. Then she’s thrust into a tenuous role of ‘behavioral investigator’ for the base. When she uncovers a shocking truth, she’s desperate to reach Grey.

Kept in chains and subject to constant tests, Grey is torn between reclaiming his life as Commander Jack Hale and embracing his altered state. The base’s expert doctor and the woman claiming to be Jack’s wife insist that he needs to focus on training soldiers and leave Jane behind. But those same people are keeping deadly secrets—including feral zombies in cages.

Grey is told that Jane makes him feral. But his altered instincts are convinced he belongs with her—and that she’s in terrible danger. And he’s right. There’s a hidden enemy in the base, a traitor plotting to destroy all the survivors.

If being feral means he can save his pack, does he even want to be human?

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