The Purple Door District Series
An urban fantasy series about parahumans (werebirds, vampires, werewolves, witches, fae etc.) living in safe zones called Purple Door Districts, and the Hunters who want to eradicate them. The first trilogy is complete and is the gateway to a larger series that will be coming in the future.
You can also purchase it at local bookstores and indie shops:
Prairie Lights in Iowa City
Swamp Fox Bookstore in Marion
Blurb: Bianca was supposed to attend art school in Chicago, not run for her life from Hunters. The only chance she has to survive is to find The Purple Door District, a safe haven for a parahuman like herself. When she stumbles upon a magus named Gladus and a fellow avian named Carlos, she thinks she's found safety. But the Hunters are relentless, as is the dark force driving them.
Vampire, werewolf,avian, magus—
It's up to the parahumans of the Purple Door District of Chicago to put their differences aside to save Bianca and stop a dark threat from destroying their peaceful community.
Wolf Pit (Book 2)
Available for e-book and paperback at Amazon!
You can buy a signed paperback copy or e-book from my store.
You can also purchase it at local bookstores and indie shops:
Swamp Fox Bookstore in Marion
Blurb: Tess Montgomery isn’t your typical member of the Chicago wolf pack. In fact, she’s not a wolf at all. She’s an adopted fire magus of the pack and thus doesn’t always “play by the rules.” When her father and her best friend Nick are kidnapped in what the parahumans assume is a Hunter operation, Tess’s pack is thrown into turmoil. With Alpha Paytah unable to step outside the bounds of his new position as Violet Marshall of Chicago’s Purple Door District, Tess takes the reins to plan a rescue attempt.
Meanwhile, Nick and his fellow wolves find themselves in a world of battle and bloodshed. The Hunters have set up an illegal fighting pit where the strongest survive and the weakest are traded or killed. It’s all Nick can do to keep up the spirits of his packmates and help them escape. Or survive long enough until they’re rescued.
Unfortunately, Tess’ rescue mission fails spectacularly, leading to her capture. She finds herself the unwilling guest of a local Hunter named Arjun. Handsome, charming, and deadly, Arjun tries to convince Tess that not all Hunters are the enemy. He even offers to help her find her packmates. But is he true to his word, or does he have his own wicked plans in mind?
A Game of Fae (Book 3)
Available for e-book and paperback at Amazon
You can buy a signed paperback copy or e-book from my store.
You can also purchase it at local bookstores and indie shops:
Swamp Fox Bookstore in Marion
Blurb: Bad dreams always end the same; eventually you wake up. But Nick is trapped in a living nightmare with no end in sight.
After his pack fails to rescue him, Nick and his friends are whisked to a new fighting pit that's bigger and deadlier than the last. Werewolves and vampires aren't his only opponents; magi, werebirds, and werecats are also out for his blood. To make matters worse, he's attracted the hungry gaze of the leader of the pit, a fae named Vesp who thrives on nightmares. His only hope rests in the hands of a vampire he once called a foe and in a desperate allegiance with the parahumans who battle against him in the ring.
Back in Chicago, Tess and Arjun join forces with a sassy Huntress to discover the location of the new pit. But the longer Tess works beside Arjun, the more she’s torn between her duty to the Hunters and her pack. Should she rush in to save the people she loves and risk losing them again, or stick to a plan that could just as easily fail?
In Wisconsin, Rozene and her son’s pack partner with a local fae and her magus wife, owners of a magical school. They may be the only parahumans at hand capable of taking on Vesp, and with students from their school falling victim to the fae’s evil plans, the fight is personal.
It's a race against time for the Purple Door District parahumans to find their friends and family before their lives are sacrificed in this game of fae.
Reviews of The Purple Door District Series.
“I really enjoyed this story. The cover art and design are perfect for the current trends in popular fiction and manage to convey the tone of the book really well. It will pull in the right readers who will really enjoy this tale. I love the setting of Chicago for what felt to me like a tale of urban fantasy with so many uniquely interwoven connections between Bianca and the other creatures, like vampires, magi, humans and other. I really enjoyed seeing those interactions and complexities. I like that overlap of the possibility of our world existing at the same time as this other one that “normal” people just don’t even know about. That’s a fun idea that I personally enjoy and think that this book does well with creating another world. The exploration of it is so much fun too, and the plot does a good job of traversing that space with enough action and discovery that it never felt to me that things were overwhelming or too much to navigate. Bianca, Gladus and Carlos were fun to spend time with also. As we follow along on their journey it was wonderful to have more inclusive representation than I’ve read in a while and that was refreshing to me. I would have liked to see even more opportunities for the characters to shine here, but maybe that is to be developed further along in the series. The way they confront the problems and struggle against the villains of the story is clever and interesting. Very fun to read.
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“In a crowded fantasy market of vampires and werewolves, Casey brings a refreshing perspective in the form of a werebird protagonist, Bianca, who is on the run from paranormal operatives hunting her for her burgeoning, mysterious powers she’s only beginning to realize herself. Yes, vampires and werewolves (and magi and other magical folk) are present in the Purple Door District (PPD) (a code for safehouses for parahumans like Bianca) set in present-day Chicago, but the originality of Casey’s universe resides not only in the relationship between Bianca’s human form and the caracara she can shift into, but in the telepathic communications she has with the other avians and parahumans she (sometimes) co-exists with.”
“The world Casey has built in The Purple Door District is full of interesting, diverse characters that are instantly relatable.”
“For me, the book was so engaging that after I purchased the paperback, signed by the author, I also purchased the digital copy so that I could read it on the go. Author, Erin Casey, discusses having a community as being important to her and through her fiction, she creates a sense of community.”
“I loved the progression of the first novel, and it was interesting to experience things through Bianca’s eyes. Now, we’re looking through Tess and the Wolf Pack....There’s a lot of twists and turns, and a hefty dose of drama between the cracks.”
“I love this book, and I loved that it was the most unique shifter story line that I’ve read. The characters were diverse in all aspects from age, parahuman species, race, gender, and sexuality. The author writes in a way that doesn’t cram her belief’s down your throat, but allows you to relate to the characters.
The Purple Door District gives you insight to several of the characters view points, and you either fall in love with them, or can sympathize with their motives. The plot line is well thought out and not predictable at all.
Throughout the story you can see the main character Bianca’s growth as she copes with everything that has happened to her.
Erin Casey does a great job of writing and it is hard to believe that she is a first time author. She is very talented and I look forward to seeing what comes next from her.
If you like anything in the fantasy, mythical, or paranormal genre I would highly recommend taking the time to check this book out. It was definitely a feel good book with strong characters across the board.”
“When I first sat down with my copy of WOLF PIT, I only intended to read the first couple of chapters because I was also in the middle of two other books. Fast forward thirty minutes, and I was so completely sucked in by the story that I a) was late getting to bed and b) wound up putting those other books aside for a few days so I could focus entirely on this one.
The story centers around Tess, a fire magus and side character from the first book in the series, who finds herself getting far more trouble than she bargained for when she attempts to rescue a handful of members of her adopted wolf pack family who have seemingly been kidnapped. I connected with her boldness and her courage right away in THE PURPLE DOOR DISTRICT, but I loved her even more as the de facto protagonist here. She so determinedly tries to do right by the people who matter to her, even if it means risking her life. (And in spite of an anxiety disorder that is rendered very authentically on the page.)
In fact, I got a kick out of all the POV characters, including one I never expected to sympathize with. (No spoilers, obviously.) Casey has a knack for building humanity into the people who populate her worlds, and for making those people feel real and three-dimensional and flawed without wasting a lot of words. It was the characters and their determination to stop the Hunters threatening their diverse, paranormal community and the personal investments each of them had in their fight that kept me turning the pages even when the story got dark.
This is a brutal, violent tale in a lot of ways, and there’s sure to be more than one moment that haunts you. (I’d share one of mine, but again: no spoilers.) And yet, the importance and the function of community, of home remains a central theme and a hopeful beacon for both characters and readers, no matter how bleak things become.
It’s that sense of hope that had me wishing for another fifty pages once I reached the end, and that has me eagerly anticipating the final book in this trilogy. I can’t wait to find out what comes next.”
“I hope that this isn’t the end of this series. I really enjoy and immensely appreciate a book or series that is willing to not water down a story and just tell it as it is. The trilogy was mature and smart, especially in this last story. Likewise, the characters and plot were mature and smart. The characters were some of the best-written ones I have ever read. They felt real and their actions and reactions made sense to the plot and themselves. The story had weight and gravity and the antagonists were legitimate threats. There was no way to predict who would live and who would die. I love that most when a story or series can establish and balance that nature. Of course, anything that makes me think and gets me emotional will always have a place in my heart. A fantastic end to one of the best trilogies I have ever read that I hope could continue as a longer series with more stories to tell.”
