An urban fantasy Web Serial Novel currently on its fourth book.
Books in the series:
- Mirrorfall (MF) - Playful Hacker Stef is recruited by The Men in Black and shown the Masquerade.
- Mirrorheart (MH) - After the mirrorfall, a life hangs in the balance, as do the punishments for attempting a resurrection.
- Mirrorshades (MS) - Becoming an agent is by no means an easy process, especially when there are those that would see you fail.
- The Grey Edge (GE) - Life isn't easy when you're half-magpie, and less so when your entire family is pyschotic, and so is the man you're in love with. This is the first book with the focus on Magnolia and Taylor, rather than Ryan and Stef.
The series provides examples of:
- Abusive Parents: Stef's were emotionally distant and sometimes outright neglectful - prime example being they failed to notice the events of Mirrorfall. However, her father goes beyond emotionally distant and neglectful when he shoots her in the head in the fourth book Oubliette
- Back from the Dead: Stef, once as a child, and then again when she's stabbed by a piece of mirror at the end of Mirrorfall. It also happens throughout the later series as Agents have a 're-spawn' function and the mirror refuses to let Stef stay dead. Taylor is also an example.
- Bottomless Magazines: Justified in Mirrorshades. Stef uses her heart to wish for some guns and ammo, and later finds out the guns are magic, having unlimited ammo and giving the owner Improbable Aiming Skills.
- Freak Out: Stef, several times, most noticeably in MH where after being shot the first time after coming back she descends into a full meltdown, externalising the voices in her head, quoting River Tam and playing with small pieces of her own brain.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Magnolia, who is half-magpie.
- Invisible to Adults: Members of the Lost who operate as imaginary friends are selectively visible.
- Imaginary Friend: Stef has Captain Hook as an imaginary friend as a child.
- Mind Rape: Agents have this ability. It can be used as torture Petersen did this to Curt or just to find out information/intentions as Ryan did to Stef at the beginning of Mirror Heart
- Nightmare Sequence: Two separate types here:
- Stef's nightmares after coming back from the dead, appear without warning or explanation, genuinely terrify her even though she cannot remember the content.
- Glitches - both induced and natural - are essentially hallucinations for agents that cannot be distinguished from reality.
- Small Girl, Big Gun: Subverted. Stef is asked to pick a gun and chooses a sensibly small "girly gun". Ryan even comments on how every recruit picks out something unsuitably large like a desert eagle, to which Stef responds "‘I think,’ she said as she handed the Desert Eagle back, ‘I’d break my damn nose if I tried to use that thing.’"
- Split Personality: Stef hears a voice in her head (which fans refer to as Boldvoice). She's generally more sensible than Stef and helps keep them both alive. When Ryan goes into her mind he meets two of Stef, supporting the split personalty theory for Boldvoice. Generally Boldvoice cannot control Stef but has spoken through Stef and even performed actions specifically during her attempted suicide in Obilette.
