Patti Larsen
Biography
About me, huh? Well, my official bio reads like this: Patti Larsen is an award-winning middle grade and young adult author with a passion for the paranormal. But that sounds so freaking formal, doesn’t it? I’m a storyteller who hears teenager’s voices so loud I have to write them down. I love the idea of sports even though sports hate me. I’ve dabbled in everything from improv theater to film making and writing TV shows, singing in an all girl band to running my own hair salon.
But always, always, writing books calls me home.
I’ve had my sights set on world literary domination for a while now. Which means getting my books out there, to you, my darling readers. It’s the coolest thing ever, this job of mine, being able to tell stories I love, only to see them all shiny and happy in your hands… thank you for reading.
As for the rest of it, I’m short (permanent), slightly round (changeable) and blonde (for ever and ever). I love to talk one on one about the deepest topics and can’t seem to stop seeing the big picture. I happily live on Prince Edward Island, Canada, home to Anne of Green Gables and the most beautiful red beaches in the world, with my very patient husband and four massive cats.
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Books
Enforcer
by Patti Larsen
Price: $5.99 USD. 68510 words.
Published on June 15, 2013. Fiction.
Conclave approaches, two months after Syd’s twenty-first birthday. With no husband decision in sight, she focuses on the gathering of witches come to debate and create law. Her plan to scour all of witchdom for Brotherhood influence encourages Miriam to open the proceedings to every magical race. But, in doing so, she leaves the door gaping for the enemy to come knocking...
Shifting Loyalties
by Patti Larsen
Price: $5.99 USD. 60400 words.
Published on May 21, 2013. Fiction.
Syd struggles with her feelings for Liam, still at odds with the choice she must make. A message about Charlotte pushes marriage from her mind as she runs to save her friend. But her introduction to a handsome Steam Union member makes Syd’s decision all the harder, even as she agonizes over two options: save her werefriend and start a war or leave Charlotte to her fate.
The Undying
by Patti Larsen
Price: $5.99 USD. 67710 words.
Published on April 17, 2013. Fiction.
Syd has enough on her plate, leader of her coven, becoming maji, trying to keep the world safe from evil. Finding out she has to get married by her 21st birthday adds to the pressure on her shoulders. That pressure doubles when the Sidhe contact her, their realm under attack by the Brotherhood. And the only way to save them is to find her own balance. A balance she needs Ameline to achieve.
Ancient Ways
by Patti Larsen
Price: $5.99 USD. 62200 words.
Published on March 30, 2013. Fiction.
Syd’s second year at Harvard is over, but her troubles are just beginning. Liam’s mother is making it impossible for them to have a relationship, and Syd wonders if they have a future. All thoughts of romance vanish when the Dumont coven power is stolen. Syd’s mother refuses to act, leaving it up to Syd to hunt down the power thief and return her friend Mia's family magic.
Unseelie Ties
by Patti Larsen
Price: $5.99 USD. 63330 words.
Published on February 25, 2013. Fiction.
Second year of witch college has been boring for Syd so far. She suddenly wishes she could go back to her boredom when the Unseelie Lord Venemeth appears, a guest lecturer at Harvard. Despite all her warnings about him, Venner is given free rein. But what his handlers don’t understand is he’s not working alone—and his partner has her own plans for the Sidhe realm.
Purely Paranormal
by Patti Larsen
Price: $4.99 USD. 315280 words.
Published on February 24, 2013. Fiction.
Welcome to the work of Patti Larsen.
She will lead you:
Into a world where unusual family magic abounds
To a dying civilization, the only hope a clone who can’t remember anything
Where the ghosts of best friends of the past affect the present
And so much more!
Come inside. Pull up a chair. And hold on tight.
Magic and danger await.
Horizon
by Patti Larsen
Price: $4.99 USD. 55140 words.
Published on February 18, 2013. Fiction.
When a colony ship is attacked by an unknown force and sent crashing into a settlement that has suffered the same fate, eight teenagers, the only ones left behind, have to work together to resurrect an ancient ark ship so they can pursue the aliens who kidnapped their parents.
Dark Promise
by Patti Larsen
Price: $5.99 USD. 65550 words.
Published on February 7, 2013. Fiction.
Syd is the prime suspect when her demon grandmother is murdered. But Ahbi Sanghamitra’s last act was to geas Syd with the task of finding the real killer—even if it means allying with the rebels who threaten to tear Demonicon apart.
Sassafras
by Patti Larsen
Price: $5.99 USD. 73170 words.
Published on January 22, 2013. Fiction.
When demon boy Sassafras breaks Demonicon’s oldest law, he is sentenced to death. Only his father’s pleading commutes Sass’s sentence. Forced into the body of a silver Persian, he is dumped in the dark streets of Victorian London and left to die. Rescued by a young witch and her family, Sassafras finds purpose with the Hayles, sharing his heart with the remarkable coven he claims as his own.
Queen of Darkness
by Patti Larsen
Price: $5.99 USD. 59860 words.
Published on December 20, 2012. Fiction.
Kidnapped by the Wilhelm vampire clan, Syd is forced to face the ruling Queens who claim possession of the undead essence Syd carries, with the intent of having her give it up or, if she resists, removing it from her by any means necessary.
Light and Shadow
by Patti Larsen
Price: $5.99 USD. 68930 words.
Published on December 11, 2012. Fiction.
When Syd dreams of a terrible battle between sorcerers and all other magical races, she is tasked by a mysterious maji with protecting the Light and the Shadow, a pair of teenagers she rescues from the veil. Forced to track down the Chosen of the Light for assistance against this new threat, Syd teams with an unlikely foe turned ally in a stand against the rise of the sorcerer’s Brotherhood.
First Plane
by Patti Larsen
Price: $5.99 USD. 62390 words.
Published on November 28, 2012. Fiction.
Syd is home for Christmas break when Harry tells his daughters their paternal grandmother wants to meet them. Syd and Meira eagerly leave for the demon plane. Their long-delayed family reunion is really a disguise for political games that put both of their lives at risk, forcing the Hayle sisters to fight for status given to them by the woman who Rules everything and wants what she can't have-Syd.
Divided Heart
by Patti Larsen
Price: $5.99 USD. 64370 words.
Published on October 19, 2012. Fiction.
Syd is finally off to Harvard, leaving things back in Wilding Springs in her grandmother’s capable hands. The rush of excitement about her new beginning is doused when Syd stumbles on a secret club taking advantage of normal students. An unhappy roommate, troubles with Quaid and Liam's protectiveness makes it hard for her to focus. If only her Coven Leader mother would listen...
Clone One
by Patti Larsen
Price: $4.99 USD. 52820 words.
Published on October 3, 2012. Fiction.
New York looms, the task at hand. Betrayal after betrayal, loss after loss have taken their toll on Trio, but she’s made it at last. But nothing could prepare her and Duet for what and who comes next—for the darkest deception of all. The sister clones must accept the ultimate sacrifice, risking everyone they love for a dying humanity before the very person they've sought can remake the world.
Clone Two
by Patti Larsen
Price: $4.99 USD. 55000 words.
Published on October 3, 2012. Fiction.
Trio and her friends have escaped the remains of Los Angeles and the horrible Crawlers intent on her capture. But the train they ride offers more threats than comfort, both from the uncertain track stretching out before them to the open dislike from train boss Chime and her crew. Trio has no choice, her heart and soul pushing her across the country, toward a damaged clone who will call her sister.
The Hercules Project
by Patti Larsen
Price: $5.99 USD. 71430 words.
Published on August 30, 2012. Fiction.
Sixteen-year-old Wyatt Simons has spent his entire life in a wheelchair,ignored by his scientist father. Wyatt is shocked when his dad brings him to his underground lab where Wyatt is exposed to a secret military experiment, one that transforms his body beyond all expectations. But physical changes do nothing to erase his father's treatment of him or help find the saboteur undermining the project.
Guardians of the Edge: Last of the Portal Keys
by Patti Larsen
Price: $3.99 USD. 47470 words.
Published on August 21, 2012. Fiction.
Twelve-year-old master thief Aiden Trent has been trained by the best—his parents. It's rumored there is nothing they can’t steal. So when an easy job comes up, they take it. Trouble is, the goal is no ordinary prize. In a flash of light, his parents disappear, leaving Aiden to uncover the secret behind the artifact while he flees from the man who hired them to steal it in the first place.
Full Circle
by Patti Larsen
Price: $5.99 USD. 84940 words.
Published on August 8, 2012. Fiction.
Syd’s finally going on her first date with Quaid. Her calm is shattered when a group of High Council Enforcers arrest her mother. Desperate to defend Miriam, Syd calls on all of her family’s allies, even seeking out those she should probably leave in peace. Syd is shocked to discover there is more to this attack, led by an old enemy who holds Miriam's life in her hands.
The Long Lost
by Patti Larsen
Price: $5.99 USD. 66100 words.
Published on May 10, 2012. Fiction.
Syd’s worst fear has come true-Quaid found his family and chose them over her. Not to be outdone, her friends are going their separate ways, her foundation falling out from beneath her. When the Dumonts come for a visit, Syd’s family history unfolds, leading her to discover things that shake her beliefs about herself and those she loves while struggling to accept she's lost her one true love.
Steam and Sorcery
by Patti Larsen
Price: $4.99 USD. 52820 words.
Published on April 12, 2012. Fiction.
Things can’t possibly be any worse for Auburdeen Hayle. What began as a quiet trip for her own protection has turned into a nightmare of capture and escape. Infected with living metal, Burdie is to be used to start a war. Meanwhile, she battles to combine her witchcraft with the sorcery awakened inside her. If she can't bring balance to her magic, she could well be lost forever.
The Diamond City (Book Three: The Diamond City Trilogy)
by Patti Larsen
Price: $5.99 USD. 58490 words.
Published on April 9, 2012. Fiction.
Fresco is finally free of the blue joy forever. Even better, his brother Daniel is alive and clean, the leader of a group fighting the corporation for years. But Fresco faces worse than his own self-doubt and hatred at his weakness. A new strain of Wasteland has hit the streets, one that turns his kind into savage killers. Their only recourse is to invade the project and end it once and for all.
Wasteland (Book Two: The Diamond City Trilogy)
by Patti Larsen
Price: $5.99 USD. 55970 words.
Published on April 9, 2012. Fiction.
Last Stand is no more and Fresco is left to pick up the pieces. With his damaged brother Daniel stashed for safe keeping, Fresco and the old scientist Medley gather the remaining survivors and do their best to protect them. But the Garbagemen have other ideas, their leader’s goal to capture Fresco and make him one of their own.
Fresco (Book One The Diamond City Trilogy)
by Patti Larsen
Price: $3.99 USD. 68230 words.
Published on April 9, 2012. Fiction.
Seventeen-year-old Fresco Conte is an ordinary All-American kid from an upper middle-class family. Life is good. Until unexplained things, scary things, start to take him over. When the men in the dark blue coveralls come for him, Fresco is forced into addiction to the blue joy known as Wasteland and set free on the street, with no answers and only his hunger to keep him company.
Henry
by Patti Larsen
Price: $0.99 USD. 8270 words.
Published on February 15, 2012. Fiction.
HENRY is SHORT FICTION: Avlin, Texas is just like any other small town. Quiet. A little run down. But mostly full of decent folks. At least, on the surface. Henry knows better. Understands the darkness running underneath. The needs and wants that can ruin everything.
He's about to teach them all the true meaning of cruelty.
Fire and Illusion
by Patti Larsen
Price: $4.99 USD. 55350 words.
Published on February 14, 2012. Fiction.
Auburdeen Hayle is in London for her own protection. But since she chose to help Jack Bishop, everything she knows and understands has fallen to pieces. Worse, her friend is lost and in the hands of those who will use him as a weapon, being slowly devoured by the living metal infecting him. Hunted by the man holding Jack captive, Burdie must trust those for which truth is only a convenience.
Smoke and Magic
by Patti Larsen
Price: $3.99 USD. 53260 words.
Published on February 9, 2012. Fiction.
Auburdeen Hayle is the 16-year-old daughter of the next leader of her coven. When the transition of power grows tense, Burdie is sent to stay with old friends in London. But a handsome young man chooses to hide from the police in her hansom, drawing Burdie into an underground world of magic that challenges even her sense of adventure and puts her at odds with those meant to protect her.
Hunt (Book Four The Hunted)
by Patti Larsen
Price: $4.99 USD. 45460 words.
Published on September 29, 2011. Fiction.
Reid has joined the hunters. But even now he is unable to avoid being pursued. Caught between the army and Dr. Lund's mercenary forces, he is made to hunt under orders or be killed. Now his only hope of escaping slavery means trusting the very man who condemned him to this life in the first place.
Fight (Book Three, The Hunted)
by Patti Larsen
Price: $4.99 USD. 47460 words.
Published on September 9, 2011. Fiction.
Reid is tired of running, tired of hiding. It's time to take the fight to the enemy. No more picking the kids off one by one, wearing them down with terror and starvation. He is ready to act and so are his friends. But something is changing inside Reid, an effect of the strange dust the hunters dissolve into when they die, and he worries he is turning into one of the very creatures he despises.
Hide (Book Two, The Hunted)
by Patti Larsen
Price: $4.99 USD. 47830 words.
Published on August 30, 2011. Fiction.
Reid isn't sure if he's grateful to be alive. He's managed to save a small group of kids from the hunters, but only by trapping them all underground without food or water or a way out. If starvation doesn't kill them, thirst will. Still, they are out of the hunter's reach and that's something. Reid refuses to stop trying, even when the kids find out they aren't alone down there after all.
Cat City
by Patti Larsen
Price: $3.99 USD. 33680 words.
Published on October 21, 2010. Fiction.
Ten-year-old Susan’s parents dragged her away from her friends to spend a wet and dreary summer in a new house. She adopts Tucker, a butterscotch tabby, thinking he is just an ordinary cat. But when he brings her to his magical city deep underground, Susan falls head first into a war between the enchanted cats who live under her house and the evil rats who want to claim Cat City for their own.
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Smashwords book reviews by Patti Larsen
- Pilate's Cross
on Jan. 25, 2011
I sat down to read Pilate's Cross today and couldn't stop until I reached the end. I'm not normally a mystery reader but I enjoyed it from start to finish. Great voices and strong storytelling, highly recommended! Looking forward to the next John Pilate's adventure.
- The First Tale
on Jan. 25, 2011
Great read, fast pace, fun characters and environments with tons of twists and turns... it almost wore me out! My only complaint? More please!
- Marooned
on July 18, 2011
Fantastic book so far! Fast paced, well written... really got into the MC.
Kind of a nice to have it look like a book format rather than those annoying line spaces between paragraphs. I feel like I'm reading a book rather than a manual.