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The Dragon's Tear amulet is gifted to the Romani, Moon and Tsigane, for their role in the rescue of Amy Cavanaugh; and yet the reward seems to be more than they bargained for. Strange omens and visions warn of new dangers and threats and now Moon and Tsigane must reunite with Amy Cavanaugh and her grandmother, Colette Paul-Michelle. Meanwhile, in East River, Amy and her friend, Robyne Sheridan, are also plagued with visions and omens and must rely on themselves and some new allies, The Bridge Club, to navigate through the confusion and fears they carry inside. Visions of wolves and vampires...

Pain, trauma, and abuse seem to be all thirteen-year-old Allison McClanahan knows. Shame, humiliation, and fear was her life before her ambitious case worker, Ms. Rebecca Aisling, took her case and took her under her protective wings. Rescued from an abusive, drug-addled father and the loss of her mother, Allison finds herself placed in foster care. Everything is a whirlwind of confusion. She doesn’t know who she is or where her place is in this world anymore. She yearns for answers and a night without bad dreams and nightmares. Marjan Mehri, an outsider to some but a young woman of hope ...

Two Past Twilight is a macabre pairing of two novellas. In "Ghost Story", a wandering vampire named David unknowingly finds himself returning to a place of his past; but what appears to be an abandoned village town named Sanctuary, becomes a place of more than just faded memories. What he finds among the dilapidated old places and empty fields stirs up a story of tragedy. The victims who once called Sanctuary home emerge with stories to tell that he must hear. Apparently, David was not Sanctuary's only survivor. In "Wish", a young girl named Alyssa unknowingly encounters a wandering, unseen...

Fourteen-year-old Robyne McIntyre has slipped through too many cracks and run from crisis after crisis and too many foster homes to count, seeking refuge from abuse and neglect from wherever she is bounced. After running into the world of Overwatch, a very popular video game, Robyne sees an escape from juvenile detention and a new group home full of new challenges and new adjustments. Katie Pagano is a twenty-three-year-old college graduate dealing with the stresses and pressure to be everything her over-bearing and over-protective mother plans for her. Out on her own, Katie is a freelance ...

Emi Sato has always felt like a feral, stray cat that no one has wanted. She slips through the cracks but then, she lives in a cracked and broken world under the rules of a broken Department of Child and Family Services. Whether she is Deaf or not, she feels ignored, betrayed, unwanted, and definitely misunderstood. She has been left to believe that nothing matters anymore in her life. No one cares about her so why should she care about anyone or anything? Along comes Kira Pagano and Jess Carbonneau, two girls of East River High School's gymnastics team with a plan to help this feral cat ...

An orphaned boy is brought to Silvanest and the House of Charity at the Temple of Maywen under the care of Matron Acolyte Neisa. From across the Rhye Sea, from the besieged town of Oakenfell, in the Kingdom of Tobril, a young girl and her family are taken captive to Havershaw Island under the banner of the D'Avoneese. From these beginnings, we follow Edalis, a troubled orphan with a restless spirit and callings he cannot explain becoming an apprentice Stormcaster, and Rebecca, a slave-girl of a cruel master, Davin D'Avoneese, desperate for freedom. Two lives in the midst of their personal ...

In the year 2195, post-war Saigon is a city of ghosts, demons, skeletons, and vampires. From the remnants of the old International Zone, Sara takes herself through the war weary streets at night, under monsoon rains, to work her night shift at the Moonlight Cinema, a two-hundred-forty-year-old relic of French occupation. More than just a cashier and attendant, she is one of the last custodians of a house of ghosts standing guard against the demons of prejudice, racism, and old xenophobia, and the skeletons of recent war and violence. Wrestling with her own inner demons, ghosts, skeletons, ...

Yukiko Yashida was just an ordinary Japanese American ten-year-old living on a strawberry field on Bainbridge Island, Washington. She lived a simple life of school, chores, gardening, and friendships. She was a girl in search of her own place in the world and her own special story to share. Then, in a blink of an eye, Pearl Harbor is attacked and the Land of the Rising Sun emerges and looms large in her life. Not quite Japanese, not as American as she believes, Yukiko and her family are taken from their homes and relocated to the internment camps where now it's the desert sun that never ...

After a violent fire and home invasion on a cold winter's night in 1834, Mayfair, London and three years in St. Rita's Asylum for Girls, Noriko Tanaka-Gillette seeks an answer to her parents' disappearances or murders. Coming to her rescue from the continent, is her internationally known detective auntie, Elizabeth Gillette. Through London's East End and along England's earliest established rail line to Boxmoor, Noriko follows where her detective aunt leads as she takes up her case and looks to solve a crime layered with secrets, deceptions, and the workings of a gang of smugglers led by a ...

After the passing of her grandmother at the age of nine, Gwendolyn's life in the house of charity and orphanage in Winterfell has been one of chores and boredom for the most part--that is until she starts to sneak off to learn swordplay from Sir Jared and his young recruits in the fairground. Wishing to be a squire herself, Gwendolyn seeks ways to prove herself and show everyone around her that though she is Deaf, she is not to be underestimated. When stories of her grandmother's past and legacy come to light with the inheritance and return of a magic lantern, Gwendolyn's opportunity to ...

A collection of short stories by Rachel Conlin-McLeod. A kid's magic show has an unexpected twist in "Disappearing Act". A young gymnast in Special Olympics illustrates good sportsmanship in "Spirit". In "The Midnight Club", a few too many drinks served by a familiar face leads to an experience one man will never forget. In the "Black Dance", an overconfident, hard-to-please king acquires a new slave-concubine who gives a drop-dead performance no one can forget. "Something Useful" is the subject of an interesting rivalry among friends that goes just a bit too far.

Colette Paul-Michelle was a nurse serving on the French front during World War II when she met an unusual soldier with a mysterious amulet. From that night, her world and very existence has changed. A vampire, Colette struggles to maintain her humanity and decide for herself where her true heart lies. Adopting a mortal family, Colette challenges and breaks all the rules and codes. With the help of the amulet, the Dragon's Tear, Colette seeks to protect her granddaughter, Amy Cavanaugh from the enemies and threats that now come to claim the amulet artifact as their own and punish Colette for...

In the absence of Edalis Meric, their friend, brother, companion, and Stormcaster, the Six Fellows are just pieces, shards, and shattered fragments of who they are. Though finally free of her slave collar and the Witches of Aether, a battered, broken and tormented Rebecca is barely the brave and courageous Bard-Minstrel she once was. Lost without Edalis, haunted by voices and nightmares, she feels herself slipping away or getting torn apart. The Druid, Wowen, sees premonitions of converging forces coming to a head that could change the lives of Edalis, Rebecca, Nidalee D'Avoneese, and the ...

After saving the Havershaw Islands from the threat of the ancient white dragon, Frostbite, the Six Fellows find themselves tied up in loose ends and old threads from the not-so-distant past. For Edalis Meric and Rebecca, the murder of Davin D'Avoneese comes back to haunt them as Davin's surviving sister, Nidalee D'Avoneese, appears with a secret order from within House D'Avoneese to conspire for revenge. To spare Edalis from an executioner's ax, Rebecca sacrifices her dreams of emancipation and freedom in a deal she very quickly regrets. Returned to the family of her former master and into ...

A Stormcaster from Estlon is summoned by the prophecy of a great ancient dragon, Frostbite. He is tasked with helping the dragon conjure up storms that the small world of the Havershaw Island has never seen before and bring about an Eternal Winter. A young Moon Elf war orphan, named Winter, is fostered by the village gate warden and a healer midwife and finds herself thrust upon a quest to find the ones responsible for the massacre of her village. Along the way, Winter and her companions, Kenjin and Talia, are joined by a runaway slave-girl named Rebecca and an apprentice Wizard named ...

The latest installment in the Dragon's Tear Chronicle and the second in the Tales of East River series of books. Just when things seem right in the world, a new sort of storm begins to brew in the town of East River, Connecticut. Old enemies of the past creep back into the present and recruit some new blood to their ranks. For Amy Cavanaugh and Robyne Sheridan, the ties that once bound them, might be choking them to death. Dreams that were once wonderful and enriching, are becoming nightmares. Has the Living Darkness returned for revenge? What must Amy and Robyne do now to be rid of the ...

The trilogy comes to a climactic end as vampire bloodlines and armies converge in a desperate battle for power and dominion, with Amy Cavanaugh, Robyne Sheridan, and Colette Paul-Michelle in the midst of the chaos with their allies and friends. With everything at stake, the Dragon's Tear becomes all the more precious and even more sought after. In the fogs of war and in the darkness of violence, bloodlust, and greed, the search for the Light of Redemption becomes all the more vital. In a soul-searching journey now coming to a close, Amy and Robyne must search inside themselves to see if ...

It is the summer of '82 and four special friends, Brian the Brains, Siobhan "Ginger", Lily "Snapdragon", and Todd "Tink" decide to sneak a peek into the town's carnival on the night before opening day. Hoping for some surprises, they hop on their Huffy and BMX bikes to the town green to sneak inside. Their mission, to have a look around the funhouse... to unlock its mysteries. Little do they know or suspect that there is someone or something waiting for them inside to make their night out one they won't forget. This is a short story set in the town of East River and inspired by Rachel's ...

A collection of previously unreleased short stories and character sketches from Rachel Conlin-McLeod, "What Dreams Are Made Of" offers stories exploring dreams. Meet an orphan who reads a special bedtime story to an unexpected house guest. Be with a girl who mourns the loss of a mother and yearns to be with her somehow. Follow a gymnast recovering from trauma and flashbacks as she steps back into the gym again to reclaim her dream. Encounter a lonely Deaf girl who imagines a world where she can finally belong and make friends.

East River, Connecticut seems like an isolated, rural paradise in the wooded hills of Litchfield County, but underneath its many facades and surfaces, something dark and evil lurks among the shadows. This unknown threat gradually creeps and inserts itself into the peaceful like a parasite. What are its motives? It seems to feed on the weak and grow strong on the hidden evils in human nature. Something seems to be drawing out the sadistic, diabolical, and violent in some of the town's residents and it is up to some unlikely heroes from among East River's kids, to bring some light to these ...