THE HELIOS SYNDROME

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When Devin Stacy, freelance necromancer contingency communication specialist on contract to the NTSB, investigates a plane gone missing under bizarre circumstances, he finds himself haunted by a dead pilot. Can Stacy figure out the mysteries of both the ghost and the disappearance before another flight full of passengers faces peril?

Cover art by Ocean Salazar | Cover and interior design by Ryan Vance | Kindle or Paperback, 142 pages

The Greta Helsing Series

STRANGE PRACTICE

Chapters 1-4 available online

Strange Practice introduces readers to a world adjacent to our own, in which monsters are entirely real – and entirely vulnerable to a whole host of ills.

Greta Helsing has inherited the family’s highly specialized, and highly peculiar, medical practice. She treats the undead for a wide range of conditions – vocal strain in banshees, arthritis in barrow-wights, and entropy in mummies.

It’s a quiet, supernatural-adjacent life, until a sect of murderous monks emerges, killing human and undead Londoners alike. As terror takes hold of the city, Greta must use her unusual skills to stop the cult if she hopes to save her practice, and her life.

Kirkus: “An imaginative, delightfully droll debut”

Publishers Weekly: “Shaw assembles an appealing, amusing collection of London’s modern undead and the humans who care for them.”

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DREADFUL COMPANY

Chapters 1 -3 available online

When Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead, is unexpectedly called to Paris to present at a medical conference, she expects nothing more exciting than professional discourse on zombie reconstructive surgery and skin disease in bogeymen — and hopefully at least one uneventful night at the Opera.

Unfortunately for Greta, Paris happens to be infested with a coven of vampires — and not the civilized kind. If she hopes to survive, Greta must navigate the darkest corners of the City of Lights, the maze of ancient catacombs and mine-tunnels underneath the streets, where there is more to find than simply dead men’s bones.

Publishers Weekly starred review

GRAVE IMPORTANCE

Oasis Natrun: a private, exclusive, highly secret luxury health spa for mummies, high in the hills above Marseille, equipped with the very latest in therapeutic innovations both magical and medical. To Dr. Greta Helsing, London’s de facto mummy specialist, it sounds like paradise. But when Greta is invited to spend four months there as the interim clinical director, it isn’t long before she finds herself faced with a medical mystery that will take all her diagnostic skill to solve.

A peculiar complaint is spreading among her mummy patients, one she’s never seen before. With help from her friends and colleagues—including Dr. Faust (yes, that Dr. Faust), a sleepy scribe-god, witches, demons, a British Museum curator, and the inimitable vampyre Sir Francis Varney—Greta must put a stop to this mysterious illness before anybody else crumbles to irreparable dust…

…and before the fabric of reality itself can undergo any more structural damage.

Kirkus review: “A satisfying wrap-up to a delightfully gothic contemporary urban fantasy series.”

Publishers Weekly starred review: “The creative worldbuilding around magically enhanced mummy medicine and mystical Egyptology hits just the right note, and her bold story engages the powers of Heaven, Hell, and everything in between while maintaining a character-centered, intimate approach that keeps the reader deeply involved.”

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BITTER WATERS

Relaxing at her partner Sir Francis Varney’s ancestral estate, work is — for once — the last thing on Dr. Greta Helsing’s mind. But before she’s had the chance to put up her feet, a barrow-wight appears on their doorstep carrying a newly turned vampire child. Turning a young adult is a grave transgression; to do it to an eleven-year-old is nearly unheard of. Who could possibly commit such a sin, and why would they abandon her once the deed was done?

Dr. Helsing and her friends will have to ask for help from the Voivode Dracula himself to find the answer in this witty and charming novella.

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STRANGE NEW WORLD

This witty conclusion to a delightful fantasy series finds Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead, facing the latest and strangest challenge of her career…accompanying an anxious angel and a sullen demon on a road trip across America.

After narrowly avoiding the end of the world, the leaders of Heaven and Hell are struggling to collaborate according to the terms of their new treaty— especially because angels and demons are, quite literally, allergic to each other. Seeking a solution, the powers that be decide to see if the allergy persists on Earth by sending an angel and demon on a research trip, first stop: New York City. And what better chaperone than Dr. Greta Helsing, who happens to owe Hell a few favors of her own?

But there’s unrest in New York’s monster underworld and Greta and her team are about to land in the middle of it. Something is off in Heaven and on Earth, and Greta will have to figure out just what that is if she hopes to protect those she loves most.

“Strange New World is a purely delightful return to Helsing’s story. You don’t expect a book this tense and gripping to also be funny and kind. Vivian Shaw knocks it out of the park yet again. If you aren’t reading Dr. Greta Helsing, you’re missing out. I loved it.” — T. Kingfisher, New York Times bestselling author of What Moves the Dead

"Deeply compassionate and endlessly surprising, Strange New World is another pitch-perfect addition to the world of Dr. Greta Helsing. This series will steal your heart." — Grace D. Li, New York Times bestselling author of Portrait of a Thief

"This witty novel is perfect for fans of Good Omens, complete with an ironic, fun take on demons, angels, and everything in between. A charming series that will likely please fans but that isn't too difficult to dive into as a new reader." — Booklist

"Dr. Greta Helsing, human doctor to London’s supernatural community, returns for one last romp in Shaw’s colorful series finale... Returning fans will enjoy cameos from series favorite characters and be gratified by the optimistic spot Shaw leaves things in, as angels and demons learn to work together without sacrificing their individuality. This satisfies." — Publishers Weekly

"Quickly paced with engaging characters, the final volume of Shaw’s quartet brings to a close a unique supernatural series focused on medical care for otherworldly beings." — Library Journal

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