N. K. Brown
SFF Author
The Seven Souls of Esmerelda Black
Status: OUT NOW!
Genre: Historical Fantasy
To save her sister's soul, she must steal seven others.
In the shadows of Victorian London, Esmerelda Black isn't just a medium, she's a soul thief. With the power to possess the living and steal fragments of their essence, she makes a desperate pact with the Devil: seven deadly sins in exchange for her sister's salvation.
After stealing sloth from her first target, Lady Grafton, she unwittingly creates a ruthless, vengeful opponent who becomes Esmerelda's greatest threat. Things grow even more dangerous when Dorian Rosewood, a cunning political candidate with secrets of his own, steals Esmerelda's only link to Hell and forces her to use her powers for his gain.
As enemies close in and the Devil's deadline looms, Esmerelda must walk a fatal line between control and surrender, truth and deception. One mistake could doom her sister to eternal torment or damn Esmerelda's soul forever.
Darkly atmospheric, richly woven, and laced with forbidden magic and morally grey intrigue, The Seven Souls of Esmerelda Black is perfect for fans of Hester Fox, Laura Purcell, and Simone St. James.
"An elegant, evocative fantasy, rich in action and thought provoking moral and ethical questions as the plot unfolds. The Seven Souls of Esmerelda Black is hard to put down." Diane Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review
The Bounty of Blood and Nails
Tam is a heartless, ruthless bounty hunter—or so her handler would have you believe.
With her ability to use forbidden blood magic, Tam tracks and captures her prey. The same blood magic that curses her to a life of servitude under a cruel handler—one wrong move and not only her life, but her family’s will be at stake. But when she’s sent to a remote, superstitious northern town where even a glimmer of magic will send you to the gallows, she’s forced to confront the darker consequences of her work.
After the murder of her bounty, innocent townspeople are blamed—and Tam’s conscience begins to stir. But there’s no turning back. Her handler raises the stakes, and her next mission is even more dangerous: infiltrate the royal castle and capture the enigmatic Prince Bellinor. Disguised as a maid, Tam is drawn into a world of deadly secrets, where her words are whispered into the prince’s ears through an ancient magic she’s never faced before.
To get close to the prince, she befriends his loyal bodyguard, Clement, but the deeper she digs, the more she realizes that Clement’s destiny is tied to the prince. With time running out and the castle tightening, Tam is forced to watch the trial of the people blamed for her own prior actions. But will she complete the mission—or risk it all as she falls in love with the person whose life she must destroy?
In this fast-paced, thrilling tale of magic, betrayal, and forbidden love, Tam will have to decide if being the bad guy is worth losing everything.
The Unity Experiment
When seventeen-year-old Anna is thrown into the Unity Experiment—an ongoing team building exercise to promote unity between warring species—she begins to unwittingly retrace the fatal steps her father took a decade ago. But she quickly discovers she is the only one within the experiment able to communicate with the spirit world.
This revelation ignites her curiosity and her focus shifts from surviving the experiment to finding out the truth behind her father’s death. But this power comes at a cost, and she becomes the prime target of the other teams who covet this link wanting answers from their dead.
If Anna can master this unusual skill, she’ll be able to bring together species who currently have nothing but contempt for each other. Of course, she’ll have to avoid being killed by everything and everyone around her. If she can’t, she’ll never have the chance to unveil the secrets the human government never wanted unearthed in the first place. Too bad they didn’t count on a 17-year-old who can hear the dead to shake things up.
The Book Bloggers' Novel of the Year Award (BBNYA) Semi-Finalist 2025
About Natalie
I am a veterinarian and a proud mother of three. Originally from Stratford-Upon-Avon I now live outside of Boston. I am repped by the wonderful Najla at Savvy Literary.
Finally ready for the career change I have always wanted, I joined Jericho Writers and am an alumni of their Ultimate Novel Writing Course 2023/24. I love to write in the SFF genre usually with a dark and speculative twist. An animal or two will usually pop up somewhere in my writing!
When not reading or writing or reading about writing, you can find me out on a long run, lost in my imagination (or a good audiobook) as I plan my next novel.
