W. L. Hawkin writes and publishes The Hollystone Mystery Series for Blue Haven Press. This is a cross-genre series (urban fantasy, mystery, thriller, time-travel, LGBTQ) suitable for Teens+ due to expressive language and adult situations.
The series features a contemporary coven of West Coast witches from Hollystone Coven who solve murders using ritual magic and a little help from the gods. The books follow Estrada, a flawed magician and coven high priest, as he endeavours to save his family and friends while sorting through his own personal issues.
Each cover in The Tattoo Editions features a tattoo worn by one of the characters. Yasaman Mohandesi designed and drew the tattoos by hand after reading the text.
Her standalone novel, Lure: Jesse & Hawk (2022) won a National Indie Excellence Award, a Gold Reader’s Choice award from Connections E-magazine, a Crowned Heart Review from InD’tale Magazine, and placed as a finalist in The UK Wishing Shelf Book Awards. Lure is a small-town romantic suspense story set on a Chippewa Reservation in the American Midwest near the fictional town of Lure River.
As an intuitive writer, Wendy captures what she sees and hears on the page, and allows her muses to guide her through the creative process. In her latest book, Writing with your Muse: a Guide to Creative Inspiration, she explains her writing process and offers tips and techniques to help writers get their words on the page.
Wendy needs to feel the energy of the land so, although she’s an introvert, in each book her characters go on a journey where she’s traveled herself.
If you don’t find her at Blue Haven Press, she’s out wandering the woods or shorelines of the Northwest Pacific Coast with her beautiful yellow dog.
BOOK 1
A Wicca Coven. A terrifying prophecy. A seventeen-year-old girl and a serial killer hunting witches. Can Estrada stop him or is he too caught up in the charm?
When a third witch vanishes from Vancouver, the witches of Hollystone Coven spin a charm to catch the killer. But spells spin ripples and in the ensuing chaos, an innocent girl gets caught up in the charm. As obsessed with the killer as the killer is with him, their high priest, Estrada, vows to find the man and stop him—a quest that takes him to Ireland.
W. L. Hawkin weaves threads of Macbeth, ancient Irish myth, and edgy love into this mysterious urban fantasy.
BOOK 2
A friend jailed for murder in Scotland. A lonely lover targeted by a vampire in Canada. Can Estrada save them with his wit, his spells, and his gods?
When a renegade archaeologist discovers an Egyptian artifact in Scotland, Dylan McBride’s world implodes. Imprisoned for murder, he summons his friend, the Wicca Priest, Estrada, to solve the crime and set him free. Unable to turn down Dylan’s cry for help, Estrada abandons his melancholy lover in Canada where he is targeted by a vicious vampire.
Estrada faces his inner demons. After playing vampire for years, Michael Stryker confronts a real vampire in a life-changing showdown. And, sweet, virginal, Dylan McBride, faces his greatest fears in one of Scotland’s most terrifying prisons. Who will survive?
A fast-paced murder mystery spiked with edgy urban fantasy, that opens portals into the realm of witches, faeries, and vampires.
BOOK 3
Diego wants blood. Estrada wants his baby back. What will the high priest sacrifice to bring his daughter home? A sexy Hitchcockian thriller that demystifies Vampire and illustrates the power of love.
Estrada is High Priest of Hollystone Coven, a shaman and magician. But is he a match for a vengeful vampire? When Diego steals his daughter from her crib, the Hollystone witches converge. The same night, a woman is murdered and another abducted. All three scenes are marked by roses that point to Michael Stryker, Estrada’s lover and best friend—a man with a strange dark virus brewing inside him. When the witches journey up the Pacific coast, emotions run raw in the close confines of a yacht and heighten the tension between Estrada’s jealous lovers. And then they meet the ravens!
BOOK 4
Sorcha just wanted to warn Ruairí of his fate until she saw him and fell in love. How could she leave him to be ritually murdered and cast in a bog to cure for two thousand years?
Though he’s grieving the loss of his lover, when Estrada realizes Sorcha is trapped in Iron Age Ireland, he demands that Cernunnos take him and Dylan back through time to rescue her. How can Sorcha, the fiery archaeologist, survive this warrior culture? Assuming she’s fey, Ruairí’s rival wants her power; worse still, Ruairí’s lover, the wicked Crow Queen, wants her dead. Can Estrada use his Wiccan powers and magician’s skills to defeat Iron Age Druids and bring his friends home? A romantic, time-travel, prehistoric thriller.
BOOK 5
Twin wolves howled beneath a turquoise crescent moon, their bushy manes wild and ruffled and knotted by the winds of change. “It’s us. You over my heart, and me beside you. It’s our destiny.”
In the captivating sequel of To Kill a King, ancient magic collides with modern trickery as a Wicca high priest embarks on a thrilling journey to defy the boundaries of time and challenge the very fabric of destiny. While attempting to prevent the tragic outcome of To Render a Raven, Estrada struggles with the complexities of love; archaeologist Sorcha O’Hallorhan slips into her own time warp with a woman she once adored; and Conall Ceol, an Iron Age Druid bard, walks into the future to challenge Michael Stryker for Estrada’s attention.
Hawk is a wounded doctor bent on losing himself on the Chippewa reservation in Minnesota.
Jesse’s a vegan nature photographer trying to find herself on that same wild land.
When Hawk shoots the deer that Jesse’s photographing, passions flare. Then Jesse hears that Hawk’s friend is dying and sets off alone on horseback to warn him. He deserves the chance to say goodbye she never had.
But danger lurks everywhere near the small Midwestern town of Lure River.
Jesse’s just discovered the twenty-year-old bones of a missing Indigenous girl in her shed and drawn the unwanted attention of two local men.
Can Hawk find Jesse before they find her?
Ruby Little Bear’s tragic tale weaves through the narrative, reminding us that one moment can change everything.
Romantic Suspense—Small Town Grit
Read about Hawkin’s personal inspiration for Lure.
Part memoir, part instructional guide, Writing with your Muse offers techniques, strategies, tools, tips, and stories to help you tap into creative inspiration. You don’t have to be psychic to be successful with these techniques, although that natural ability exists in all of us, and these techniques will help you develop your sixth sense. There’s even science to back it up. This book will help you if you hear words or see images but find it difficult to get the text on the page, you’ve written and published but are searching for something fresh and different, you have ideas but don’t know how or where to begin, you want to write but have no ideas, or you’re suffering from a bad case of writer’s block.
