She is a seasoned traveler, a successful stage actress – and a Sidhe who has left the realms of Faerie to dwell among humankind. “Just as mortal youths occasionally run away to join the circus,” says Juliet McKenna, “this particular Sidhe ran away from home to join Actors’ Equity.” These are the tales of her ramblings and adventures, as she applies her acting skills to a wide range of roles – and occasionally taps her faerie gifts to deal with the challenges of a life among mortals.
Charmed, I’m Sure
Histria SF & Fantasy
November 2007
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Little does Juliet McKenna expect that when she accepts a fellow performer’s invitation to a family Thanksgiving dinner, she will encounter a mortal with the ability to recognize her for what she is, and the arcane knowledge to bind her to his unwilling service.
Thus enspelled, she faces a choice with potentially deadly consequences: to return to Faerie and face the wrath of the High Court she once defied, or to satisfy Richmond Becket’s desire for power at any cost, no matter how high.
Phantom of the Operetta
Histria SF & Fantasy
March 2008
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While serving as an artist-in-residence at a small Pacific Northwest college, Juliet is directing Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Sorcerer. Rivalries among the student cast are only to be expected – but are other troubles the work of the theater’s restless ghost?
Nonsense, Juliet insists, and with Sidhe-born senses to back her conclusions, she should know. But as the curtain rises on opening night, she’s forced to revise her opinions. With one performer in chains and another possessed, the show seems poised to end in disaster – because even if Juliet can improvise a new ending, she may not be able to free her students without revealing her own Sidhe origins.
Supernatural Timing
October 2011
Some months after the events of Phantom of the Operetta (and after Juliet McKenna has moved on), some of her students are completing a Halloween assignment…and one of them has something special in mind. (While some of Phantom‘s characters reappear, there are no direct spoilers for that story in this one, which can be read in full by clicking the above link.)