THE POE SERIES
Poe is a gothic thriller series following the adventures of a young woman descended from Edgar Allan Poe as she grapples with a tragic past coming back to haunt her, navigating a new romance, and facing a deadly curse inherited from the master of the macabre himself. Five books comprise the published installments in the series, with one more in the works.
Poe: Nevermore
Elenora Allison Poe is twenty-four years old, drowning in debt and depression, and very alone, having been orphaned at the age of two and raised in an unloving household. Suffering from insomnia and PTSD from a traumatic experience seven years before, Poe keeps everyone at arm's length. Then, she meets homicide detective Caleb Frost and her life changes dramatically. Frost sees Poe's brokenness in perfect clarity and sympathizes with her. However, just when Poe is starting to let him in, she discovers a horrible truth: she is the sole direct descendant of Edgar Allan Poe, inheriting not only the last name of one of the world's most famous poets, but also a terrible family curse that takes the form of the master of the macabre's most haunting tales. If Poe cannot recognize the curse unfolding in time, it will destroy the lives of all those close to her and annihilate her sanity.
Poe: Nevermore was a 2013 First Place Winner of Chanticleer Book Reviews & Media's Paranormal Awards.
Poe: Rest In Peace
The shocking and fast-paced sequel to Nevermore, Rest in Peace picks up with Elenora Allison Poe one month after the first novel's conclusion. Frost and Poe are still recovering from the tragedies they survived in "The Raven", both emotionally and physically. As they struggle to rebuild their relationship from ashes, Poe discovers that she is being stalked by her most wicked nightmare, Lex, and is swept into a maelstrom of instability and paranoia. Without Frost's protection, Poe quickly loses her already shaky grip on her sanity as with each passing moment the inevitable reunion with her tormentor draws nearer. Meanwhile, the Poe family curse continues to haunt the tragic heroine, dragging her into a labyrinth of darkness from which there may be no escape....
Poe: Death's Mark
The much-anticipated follow-up to Rest in Peace, Death's Mark finds Poe, Frost and Trina healing and seeking a new normal to found their lives on. But for Poe, there may never be a "new normal." The only other direct descendant of Edgar Allan Poe, a twenty-year-old girl named Tori, is seeking answers about her lineage, answers Poe only wishes she had. Meanwhile, Poe’s former foster-father has grown progressively more volatile and his actions are crushing his submissive wife to the point of threatening her very existence. Poe can hardly protect herself and her new patchwork family from Jonathon Aaron, much less find a way to rescue her helpless foster-mom from the clutches of the curse, and must choose between the people she loves most. Concluding with an epic final stand-off between Poe and the man who destroyed her childhood, Death's Mark depicts the tragic heroine's first hope for a future and her battle to hold onto that hope.
Poe: Haunted Souls
Poe is tired of losing people, tired of funerals and failure. In the six weeks since she buried her foster mother, she has worked relentlessly to transform herself into a different kind of dangerous, someone strong enough to fight for her loved ones and win instead of someone made up of broken pieces and sharp edges. It’s exhausting sometimes relearning how to believe in yourself and in other people, relearning how to be human, but Poe is determined.
Responding to an ominous series of letters from her estranged grandparents, the wealthy Blackwings who snubbed her family’s funeral so many years ago, is not on Poe’s priority list, but with so little family left she can’t ignore her grandparents’ plea for one last chance to meet their granddaughter and make amends before they die, not even when it means traveling far from Baltimore to Savannah, Georgia, the most haunted city in America.
In Savannah, the dead walk, and even an old enemy whose memory Poe has tried so hard to bury comes back to haunt her. Arming herself with supernatural talismans and a newfound iron will, Poe ventures into the Otherworld to fight her demons where they are most powerful...but can she prevail? Or will she be doomed to an afterlife as yet another specter haunting Savannah’s cobblestone streets?
Poe: Haunted Souls was a 2025 Saturday Visiter Awards Winner at Poe Fest International.
Poe: Living Tomb
It doesn’t matter. None of it matters. I will do whatever it takes to get out of this box. I. WILL. LIVE.
A serial killer prowls the streets of Baltimore, stalking young women and sending them to an early grave, left to suffocate in pine boxes they can’t possibly claw their way out of. Poe knows without a shadow of a doubt that this is one of her ancestor Edgar Allan Poe’s horror stories coming to life and terrorizing the city, but that knowledge alone isn’t enough to stop The Undertaker. Poe isn’t one to give up without a fight, though, especially not now when she has more to lose than ever and when she is becoming more powerful in her own right. From journeying deep into the Otherworld in search of answers to taking on a serial killer and a far more ghostly enemy at the edge of an open grave, Poe is willing to do anything to stop the curse and protect the people she cares about. But when all seems hopeless and a new and traumatic loss cripples the tragic heroine and those close to her, can she keep fighting and dig herself out of a grave? Or will she let the curse bury her?