Dean Murray

Dean Murray builds independent fantasy series whose Reflections series combines supernatural conflict, family pressure, and first love. Broken introduces Adri Paige after a family loss forces her and her sister to relocate, placing them near two very different young men and a community with dangerous secrets. Series records place Broken first in the Reflections sequence and date its original publication to 2011. Murray builds the story through Adri's uncertainty: she is grieving, adapting to a new home, and learning that the rivalries around her have consequences beyond ordinary school life. This opening volume defines the shapeshifter mythology that later volumes develop, while keeping Adri's emotional choices at the center. Murray has also written connected Reflections and Dark Reflections books, so this opening volume serves as the main entry point to a larger fictional world. Across his work, Murray favors favors long-running character arcs, competing loyalties, and speculative rules revealed gradually through personal stakes rather than detached exposition.