The House Phoenix series
Welcome to the organization. In this ring, there is only one rule…don’t lose.
NEW YORK: Beneath the streets of the brightest city in the world, the underground thrives. Here among the criminals, there is a symbol that means something more than what it appears — a five-colored star. Five colors, five boroughs. Five warring gangs run by five ruthless men, each with his own agenda, each breeding and grooming fighters for a blood sport that generates millions in cold, hard cash, and far more in the currency they all covet: control.
In the organization, street fighting is king. Protected by crooked cops, bathed in the blood of men hard enough or desperate enough to compete, the ring welcomes all — to glory, or to ruin. There are no referees. There are no rules. There is only the mob, and they are hungry for blood.
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The Novels
BROKEN ANGEL
One rule: don’t lose.
When Gabriel Morgan’s sister disappears somewhere in New York’s underground, he’ll do anything to save her. But finding her is only the beginning, because Marcus Slade won’t let her go for less than ten million dollars – earned through Gabriel’s blood.
Slade, one of five ruthless leaders of an organization identified only by a symbol, runs hookers and street fighters, and never gives up what’s his. Including Gabriel’s sister. To win her freedom, Gabriel is forced to undergo a brutal training program with Slade’s top fighters in order to become one of them. He is branded, broken, given a new image, and a new name: In the ring, Gabriel as known as Angel… and he does not lose. Because the price for losing is his sister’s life.
WARNING: Contains violence, torture, and more violence.
Details & excerpts from Broken Angel
DEVIL’S HONOR
One man. Two worlds. No options.
Shiro Kuroda is a man torn between two worlds – born and raised in traditional Japan, he’s now a fighter and assassin embroiled in New York’s underground street fighting scene. After he accidentally kills an opponent in the ring, breaking the one rule of the organization, his employer’s retribution is swift: he must assassinate a deadly rival to the Harada clan, or take his own life in shame if he fails.
However, the people he has trusted over the years are not who they seem to be. A secret from Shiro’s past assures that no matter what the outcome of his mission, he will lose – whether he must commit ritual suicide, or watch those closest to him die.
WARNING: Contains violence, profanity, and revenge.
Details & excerpts from Devil’s Honor
MASK OF THE SERPENT
No matter who loses, the bad guy wins.
Drug lord and self-professed saint Diego Mendez is a man of his word. He’s watched two of his lieutenants die, thanks to Angel and House Phoenix. Unfortunately, he’s promised a certain crooked cop that he won’t seek revenge unless Phoenix hits him first. When Angel makes a run on his turf, Mendez decides it’s enough of a loophole to act. He kidnaps Angel’s lieutenant, Jenner, intent on breaking him—and killing him.
But Jenner is just as nasty and mean as Mendez, and breaking him is no easy task. His secret past has conditioned him for survival at any price. And Mendez has a secret of his own—his son is dying, and he’s been reduced to watching helplessly while it happens. One of them will triumph, one will fall. But in this game, no matter what happens…the bad guy wins.
WARNING: Contains violence, nasty language, and torture.
Details & excerpts from Mask of the Serpent
SHADES OF BLACK
The hunted must become the hunter.
For the past fifteen years, Randall Tyler has lived as Dell Ramone—glamorous transvestite, international smuggler, and leader of House Dionysus, the Queens branch of an organization for underground street fighting. Dell’s constant companion and bodyguard is Ania, whom she rescued from a vicious human slave trader in the process of putting him away for life—or so she thought.
Now the slaver, Loyal Sims, is out of prison and hungry for Dell’s blood. As Loyal tortures and slaughters his way through Dell’s loved ones, she is forced to become Randall once again, and take refuge with Angel—the organization’s newest House leader, and the only one Loyal doesn’t know…
Details & excerpts from Shades of Black
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FREE SHORT STORIES
The Twins: An origin story (Sol and Apollo) from S. W. Vaughn’s House Phoenix novels – a series of thrillers about a multi-million dollar street fighting organization in New York’s underground. THE TWINS includes an exclusive excerpt from Book 1 of the House Phoenix series, BROKEN ANGEL.
