Phantom Queen Diaries
12 primary works
Book 1
Everything was going fine for Quinn MacKenna… until she accidentally stole from Nate Temple.
Meet Quinn MacKenna, a black magic arms dealer from the mean streets of Boston.
She knows how to drink, fight, and steal dangerous magical artifacts – but not for money. For favors. Because all her life she’s wanted only one thing – a secret so dangerous and well-guarded that no one will give it up.
A ticket to the Land of the Fae so she can find her dad and finally get some answers about her past.
So she doesn’t ask questions of her clients, only favors, hoping that they will eventually add up to get her what she so desperately desires. And with her unique ability to nullify magic, the world’s deadliest artifacts – or the clients who demand them – don’t really impress her very much.
But that all changes when she accidentally robs the infamous Nate Temple, and finds herself in a much deeper world of monsters and conspiracies than she ever knew existed. Because Nate Temple and his friends aren’t the only things to be afraid of.
Now she has to worry about his enemies, too…
The newest antihero in the Worldwide Bestselling Nate Temple Universe by Shayne Silvers. Join Cameron O’Connell and Shayne at the literary bar to sip a dirty cocktail of feisty Irish brogue – with an unhealthy splash of monsters – TODAY!
If you like KF Breene, Shannon Mayer, CN Crawford, Ilona Andrews, or Patricia Briggs, you will LOVE the FIRST installment of the Phantom Queen Diaries.
Book 2
It’s time for Quinn MacKenna to pay off a debt – to Nate Temple. And New York City will never be the same…
Quinn MacKenna is a black-magic arms dealer from Boston, but her world drastically changed after accidentally robbing Nate Temple a few weeks ago.
Primarily, that her absolution might have come with some strings attached… Like a trip to the Big Apple to steal a mysterious and deadly artifact for Grimm Tech – strictly off the books.
But it doesn't take her long to learn that she isn't the only one after the magical whatsit, and that the monsters in New York play for keeps. Key word being play. Because they've all heard about the little ginger from Boston, and want to see if she tastes as sweet as she looks...
And that's before she learns that Heaven and Hell have stepped into the game...
Maybe it’s time Quinn finds some allies from St. Louis. Or the Brooklyn Bridge may just become a memory… Along with Quinn.
The newest antihero in the Worldwide Bestselling Temple Verse by Shayne Silvers. Join Cameron O’Connell and Shayne at the literary bar to sip a dirty cocktail of feisty Irish brogue – with an unhealthy splash of carnage – TODAY!
If you like KF Breene, Shannon Mayer, CN Crawford, Ilona Andrews, or Patricia Briggs, you will LOVE the SECOND installment of the Phantom Queen Diaries.
Book 3
***Welcome to Boston, where all your nightmares come to life… To the tune of a Christmas jingle.***
Quinn MacKenna learns that the cure for a blinding hangover is simple…
Stay in bed, and whatever you do, don’t answer your freaking door.
Otherwise, you might find yourself roped into a murder investigation with a psychopath attempting to rewrite the Twelve Days of Christmas as a holiday homicide special, asked to rescue a former international spy, forced to dodge bullets with a Valkyrie, or to take on a power-hungry Fae intent on freezing everything he touches.
Hypothetically speaking.
In hindsight, snorting crushed aspirin in a dingy alley would have been the wiser choice…
Especially when Quinn learns the only way to find the answers she seeks is by... sampling some magically-infused, hallucinogenic flowers. And that someone is waiting for her on the other side of her out-of-body experience.
And they've been waiting a very long time...
Welcome the newest antihero in the Worldwide Bestselling Temple Verse by Shayne Silvers. Join Cameron O’Connell and Shayne at the literary bar to sip a dirty cocktail of feisty Irish brogue – with an unhealthy splash of monsters – TODAY!
If you like KF Breene, Shannon Mayer, CN Crawford, Ilona Andrews, or Patricia Briggs, you will LOVE the THIRD installment of the Phantom Queen Diaries.
Book 4
Quinn finally gets what she’s always wanted—a Fae-Cation. But now Boston faces annihilation.
A bloody murder spree in the Land of the Fae with her vampire bestie should have been all fun and games for Quinn… that is, until she finally learns the stunning truth about her past and the decision she was born to make — a decision which threatens to bring her world to a screeching halt.
Because the price is just too high.
But when a trusted friend betrays her, unleashing the storm of the century — not to mention an army of ancient, lethal monsters — upon Boston Harbor, Quinn is forced to choose whether she will save herself or those she cares about.
This former black magic arms dealer must call in every favor she has ever earned, and, even then, there’s a good chance she won’t be strong enough to stop the Eye at the center of the storm from taking away everything she’s ever loved.
Because the only way to save Boston...
Is to become something even worse. What she was born to become…
The newest antihero in the Worldwide Bestselling Temple Verse by Shayne Silvers. Join Cameron O’Connell and Shayne at the literary bar to sip a dirty cocktail of feisty Irish brogue – with an unhealthy splash of monsters – TODAY!
If you like KF Breene, Shannon Mayer, CN Crawford, Ilona Andrews, or Patricia Briggs, you will LOVE the FOURTH installment of the Phantom Queen Diaries.
Book 5
Quinn MacKenna is on the warpath to save her bartender. Bear-tender…whatever.
And it might just break Russia.
In every person’s life there comes a point where well-meaning people mutter empty Hallmark Card platitudes like “it’s all downhill from here,” or “the only way to go now is up.”
For Quinn, black magic arms dealer and potential Fae royalty, that time is now.
Fresh after the death of her sole caretaker at the hands of a once-trusted ally, Quinn must forge new alliances and rekindle old friendships if she’s going to recover and find her place in the world.
She just didn’t know step one would take her straight to Moscow…and into the ever-pleasant, rolling hills of Siberia. But there's one thing an Irish gal simply cannot do...leave her bartender behind. Even if it means squaring off against ex-special forces shifter bears.
The newest antihero in the Worldwide Bestselling Temple Verse by Shayne Silvers. Join Cameron O’Connell and Shayne at the literary bar to sip a dirty cocktail of feisty Irish brogue – with an unhealthy splash of monsters – TODAY!
If you like KF Breene, Shannon Mayer, CN Crawford, Ilona Andrews, Faith Hunter, or Patricia Briggs, you will LOVE the FIFTH installment of the Phantom Queen Diaries.
Book 6
Fae are missing all over Boston, and apparently, no one else is suicidal enough to look into it.
Good thing Quinn MacKenna—black magic arms dealer and Fae half-breed—has been searching for a way to earn back some of Boston’s goodwill after almost destroying the city…twice. Besides, favors for the Fae usually pay dividends if you play your cards right…
As long as the Fae don’t double-cross or otherwise backstab you. But that hardly ever happens…
Thankfully, Quinn has Robin Redcap to back her up—between his skill at navigating Fae politics and his penchant for extreme, brutal violence, it’s a match made in Heaven. Or Hell.
But the only evidence they have to go on is a crime scene laden with ritualistic ingredients and blood—lots and lots of blood—leading Quinn to suspect witchcraft.
Except the witches are a tight-knit community who don’t appreciate Quinn’s intrusion—even when all she wants to do is help. Simply put, what happens in the coven stays in the coven.
The situation grows murkier and deadlier by the minute as Quinn finds herself cauldron-deep in a swirl of betrayal, conspiracy, and vengeance.
Especially when she discovers who is really stirring the pot, and that it might all stem from an unfulfilled promise made by a certain trigger-happy redhead regarding a certain magic-slinging wizard in St. Louis. And the Fae put pretty big stock in promises and agreements.
Double, double, toil and trouble…
This little oath-breaker is in big, big trouble.
Quinn is the newest antihero in the Worldwide Bestselling Temple-Verse by Shayne Silvers. Join Cameron O’Connell and Shayne at the literary bar to sip a dirty cocktail of feisty Irish brogue – with an unhealthy splash of monsters – TODAY!
If you like KF Breene, Shannon Mayer, CN Crawford, Ilona Andrews, Faith Hunter, or Patricia Briggs, you will LOVE the SIXTH installment of the Phantom Queen Diaries.
Book 7
Abductions rarely go as planned…but this is just ridiculous.
Torn from the Faeling Games on the beaches of Scotland, Quinn MacKenna suddenly finds herself doggie-paddling in a turbulent sea of blood with no land in sight.
And that’s the highlight of her day so far, because her abductors seem perfectly content to simply leave her in this strange Otherworld. Quinn must fight tooth and nail to unearth answers about herself and her place in the worlds of both Man and Fae…even if that means losing herself, first.
Luckily, it seems teeth and nails are all the rage as Quinn teams up with an unlikely guide as a god’s consolation prize. Unfortunately, it turns out man’s best friend can be one damn salty dog.
Debts come due and masks are torn away, and Quinn learns that nothing and no one is as they seemed. That her entire life has been a setup for a much more nefarious game. And the only way to even have a chance at winning is to fetch those broken remnants of her soul.
It’s a dog eat dog world out there…
And this black magic arms dealer likes to bite—when the mood is right.
Book 8
Remember when dead in the water was just an expression? Not anymore.
Fresh from her unplanned stay in the Otherworld, Quinn MacKenna is forced to wait in Fae’s worst Air BnB—a grotesque gingerbread house in a forest full of breadcrumbs—for the captain who will guide her ship to the fabled Atlantis.
But just as idle hands are the Devil’s workshop, idle minds are the Titans’ torture chamber.
The last thing Quinn needs to do is climb down the rabbit hole of her own fears and self-doubts to confront her inner Beasts. She has enough on her mind as she struggles to rediscover her identity and frets over the whereabouts of an old friend bent on vengeance and mayhem. An old friend she may have to put in the grave, whether she wants to or not.
Before she can worry about any of that, Quinn will first have to heal old wounds, enlist the aid of allies old and new, and somehow survive the turbulent tides of fate. Unfortunately, in order to stay afloat, she’ll have to sail into yet another unfamiliar world, a realm of monsters and men and gods so old they are known only as Titans.
It’s all hands on deck—monsters, sea-dogs, and scallywags—as Quinn strives to save who can be saved and beat those who must be beaten. With new powers at her disposal and an ill-matched crew to manage, it will be up to her to navigate these troubled waters. Odysseus may as well have taken a leisure cruise back from Troy compared to Quinn’s fatally fateful voyage.
Quinn will have to bring enough rum to get a Cyclops drunk. Or die trying. Because it’s awfully hard to steer when gods are rocking the boat.
And the world desperately needs her to come back home.
Book 9
What’s a goddess to do?
After being lost at sea and taken prisoner by yet another denizen of the Titan realm, Quinn finds herself cold, wet, miserable, and very much alone. Until a familiar and unexpected face steps back into her life to remind her who she is—and has always—been: a fighter. Following this revelation, Quinn can only acknowledge that some journeys require circuitous routes, even if that means attaining her freedom and rushing—not to the rescue of her besieged allies—but to the mythical island of Aeaea, home to the infamous witch, Circe, where Quinn will be confronted with cryptic visions of the present and a brutal choice: to sacrifice everything she is on the altar of what she could become, or to continue stumbling around in the dark.
No matter her decision, Quinn knows she must see order restored to the Eighth Sea if she hopes to save her friends and allies. But at what price? The answer to that could cost Quinn her very humanity and will reveal stark truths about her role in the war to come. A war her father predicted and, apparently, prepared for. A war which has already begun to claim the lives of those she cares about and will likely claim many more before all is said and done.
But, before she can worry about any of that, Quinn must go to battle against her old friend and nemesis, rescue her besieged friends, and honor her end of a lopsided bargain—a task which will pit Quinn against her wildest nightmares and her darkest dreams with just one person at her side...a certain mouthy wizard from St. Louis—Nate Temple.
The waters get even murkier as Quinn gets caught in a current that draws her closer and closer to the secrets which surround Atlantis, to the gates of the Underworld and the lost souls which lie beyond, and to the mysterious figure of her father, a wizard so powerful he defied time itself.
Some people like to say that when it rains, it pours. But then they must never have met Quinn MacKenna...because in her case it’s always hurricane season.
Book 10
No one told Quinn there was a cover charge to enter Hell—or that Valhalla didn't allow bar tabs.
Thanks to a witchy homebrew, Quinn MacKenna—part-time goddess, full-time troublemaker—has slipped past death’s door to rekindle an old flame and snuff out an old friend.
But in order to do that, Quinn will need allies, be they an alcoholic ferryman, a deadly Horseman, or some of the most feared and respected gods this side of the afterlife.
In a do or die effort to track down her old nemesis, Quinn must first expose dark truths, strike a bargain with Hades himself, and journey to a realm fraught with bloodshed and brimming with booze. The sort of place only a warrior could love—or a scrappy redhead from Boston.
Quinn quickly becomes immersed in all manner of schemes and intrigues that threaten to distract her from her goals—like starting a bar fight in Valhalla, or flying with the Valkyries, or surviving the mists of Niflheim with the power of a stolen kiss. Quinn’s devil may care attitude will lead her down a brimstone path paved with good intentions, reminding her that, sometimes, you have to be willing to lose everything if you want to find anything.
Especially if that thing happens to be a mythical city littered with ancient treasures.
In the end, Quinn will have no choice but to wallow in the past or embrace her future as her toughest crucible threatens to become her greatest failure. Will she emerge victorious, or will she remain doomed to wander the beyond for all eternity?
Come hell or high water, there’s only one way to find out.
Book 11
Witches and werewolves and rednecks, oh my!
After surviving one Hell of a journey, Quinn MacKenna—black magic arms dealer turned demigoddess—was really looking forward to spending some quality time with friends. And maybe a beer. Unfortunately time is the only thing Quinn doesn’t have, and all her friends are either missing, in hiding, or imprisoned—including her favorite bartender. Then again, after being gone a year and six months without sending so much as a postcard, what should she expect?
With the world having literally spun out of control since she last stepped foot in the mortal realm, Quinn finds herself wandering Boston, penniless and without a home. To make matters worse, it seems a very powerful, very mysterious someone has overthrown the powers that be and set something Wild loose in her city. Something determined to Hunt down every last soul Quinn cares about.
Unless she turns herself in before the next full moon.
Facing a decision she cannot afford to make and a deadline she cannot afford to miss, Quinn has no choice but to leave Boston in someone else’s capable hands. Fortunately, if her adventures have taught her nothing else, it’s that she can’t do everything herself. Which is why—when a pack of Missouri werewolves lead her to question the motives of a white witch—Quinn looks for an enchanting solution.
In the end, Quinn will be called upon to weigh the needs of her city against her own. But first, she will have to tap into a power she does not understand, reunite with some exceptionally Sick acquaintances, start a witch-hunt, and stop a massacre. And all before the next full moon—unless she wants to owe a certain goddess a debt that could take an eternity to repay.
Turns out being immortal isn’t as much fun as Quinn thought it would be. But then, nobody ever said moonlighting as a deity would be easy—though they probably should have mentioned the tremendous sacrifices she’d be asked to make.
Like having to wear a freaking dress.
Book 12
