Bathers in Violet

From the moment Sister Ophelia stepped off of the shuttle to planet Belladonna, her only mission has been to save lives. She has dedicated her life in service to the Order of the Healing Grail, bringing holy light and vital medical expertise to those corners of the galaxy where a population of millions is just another number on a spreadsheet, cast aside without a second thought. Ophelia hadn’t planned on being stationed in the bowels of city Porlux, tending to drug addicts and common criminals while hard-working citizens go sick and hungry elsewhere. But someone has to do it, and she was nothing if not faithful.

She couldn’t say exactly when things started to change. When the first signs emerged. Rumors of a new, powerful narcotic flooding the streets. Patients coming in by the dozen, all showing similar symptoms. Heretical runes discovered in autopsies, layered across a patient’s skin - even underneath it. Dark figures moving in the shadows, sabotaging Imperial control over the city, setting the stage for the chaos and destruction that would come next. And behind each rumor was a name. A mutant outlaw long thought dead, stirring in the shadows. Will Ophelia’s faith be enough to protect her, or will she fall to the temptation of ruinous powers, and the whims of this vicious adversary?

Bathers In Violet is a dark fantasy/sci-fi romance novel. A tale of two women caught on opposite sides of a grim civil conflict in which there are no innocents, weaving each other deeper and deeper into a twisted web of violence, addiction, and misplaced faith. Manuscript currently in progress.