Red August
Book One
​Shifters of Mahigan Falls
COMING END OF NOVEMBER 2022

What if you found out that you're descended from a long line of clandestine fighters, and that your family is still at war? Or that the love of your life is something other than he appears to be?
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August Archer thinks she's an average hormonal teenage girl—who also happens to have disturbing and sexy dreams about werewolves, all while trying to uncover the mysteries of her ancestry. Still grieving over the loss of her father, and confused about his final gift of a red hooded cloak, August is uprooted from her New York City apartment to the tiny town of Mahigan Falls, Maryland.

There she meets a cast of characters that hold clues to her past—especially her new neighbor, an enigmatic, fascinating man who refuses to talk to her, yet who seems to know things about her nobody else does. It's when August begins to coax her feisty Scottish grandmother out of her catatonic state that a strange tale of werewolves and hunters emerges—one in which the man of her dreams may be her family's oldest enemy—in this modern-day Red Riding Hood story.
Red Archer - Book Two
​Shifters of Mahigan Falls
Currently Available
New Cover & Content Warnings Coming in 2023
Following a season of late weddings and new romance, August Archer is ready to embrace the next part of her life—ready to reclaim her lost heritage, and to join herself with the man she loves.
But her sojourn with Faolan to their Scottish homeland turns out to be a very different trip than either of them could have imagined. August feels the bonds of love twisting into knots when the past comes back to haunt them both, even as the bonds of family grow stronger when she finds the hunter clans—her ancient kin—preparing to fight for what they hold dear.
Before this journey ends, August will face her bitterest enemy, confront a shocking betrayal in the Archer family, and become transformed by a spirit world she never dreamed existed. And she will encounter a ghost from the past that threatens to unravel her entire future, in this reimagined saga of the Red Riding Hood story—the sequel to Red August.
Red Hunter - Book Three
​Shifters of Mahigan Falls
Currently Available
New Cover & Content Warnings Coming in 2023

There has been much to celebrate in the Archer family. August’s grandmother has late-life romance, honeymooning with the man who has waited so long for her. Her mother too has found love again, and even her best friend has come back into her life. With her own true love Faolan, August can finally enjoy just being an everyday couple in their little Maryland town—even if some ghosts from his past persist.
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She knows she must learn to control the fierce power emerging within her. Back in their Scottish homeland, the Lycan Council crafted a vicious and twisted scheme to rebuild their power. Reaching across the waters to Baltimore, they send a bloodthirsty killer after August, while calling on their monstrous cousins in the city’s rundown waterfronts to set a trap. August may soon find that the most dangerous enemy is the one you call a friend, in this third book in the Red August series.
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Coming in 2024
Red Moon - Book 
​Shifters of Mahigan Falls

The saga of August Archer continues.
Coming in 2023
​The House on Blue Raven Lane
Hawthorne Hollow Series
Cozy Paranormal Mystery
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When the eccentric Hilda Nightshayde cruises into the sleepy little town of Hawthorne Hollow in her 1953 Studebaker Starliner, she causes quite a stir. Markie, the teenaged daughter of the town mortician, just happens to spy Hilda as she moves into the spooky old house on Blue Raven Lane at midnight, and things have not been the same since. Together they unravel some of the town's peculiarities—and uncover secrets that some would prefer remain buried. 

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REVIEW EXCERPTS

"Grab a fan, because the teen hormones are raging, in full, intimate detail! Red August by H.L. Brooks is not your childhood fairytale come to life, but rather a contemporary version starring an older Red, caught between womanhood and childhood. Filled with wonderfully quirky and kind secondary characters, a feisty grandmother, an ancient feud, death, misunderstandings and a cameo appearance by the Woodsman, H.L. Brooks has taken May-December romances to an entirely new level with her own brand of story telling for the fairytale lover in all of us! I have to say, I didn't see this one coming!"

Book Blogger - Dianne of tometender.blogspot.com
 
"I absolutely loved this book and the characters! I immediately fell in love with August she is such a smart young lady, takes crap from no one and is a very relatable character; Oh, and Faolan, gosh that man is complete perfection such a gentleman and he loves to read, he is very swoon worthy. The side characters also have a place in my heart; the way H.L. Brooks wrote them just makes them so lovable. I really loved the story and how it all plays out; the author hit me with some twist I wasn't expecting and had me at the edge of my seat."

Book Blogger - Sandra at sandrathebookworm.blogspot.com