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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 ...

A Changeling shapeshifter, Ophren, reluctant to even be an "almost" Druid, is given the opportunity to finally escape the life she dreads. Summoned by elder Elves of Silvestri, Ophren must find and rescue a Sun Elf child born of a rare and sacred bloodline of Silvestri and help restore her to a throne destined for her and her alone. Krenn, the Sun Elf in question, begins her adventure with very few memories but a life of seafaring and chores and modest contentment ahead of her. Purchased as an orphaned slave from the city of Arrabel when she was only a very young child, Krenn's life has ...

Mari Parenteau was eight years old when she was inserted into the astronaut training program with an international crew of scientists, specialists in the fields of astrophysics, botany, and engineering. Six years later, she wakes from her stasis coma sleep aboard the international space station, Oberon One, now in orbit between Ganymede and Callisto, on a long-term expedition to explore and investigate Jupiter and its four Galilean moons of Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. Six years lost and gone... a childhood abruptly shortened against her will. She wakes in the shadow of a stormy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Corrin is an indentured servant of House D'Avoneese with a bit of a wild and stormy streak. She loves her mischief as much as she desires her freedom. Unfortunately for her, Lord and Lady D'Avoneese have run out of patience with her jokes, pranks, and wild shenanigans. An unexpected abandonment leads to an incredible encounter with a bubbly, sometimes fluff-headed cleric named Calla, a crafty old tinker of a shaman named Brann, and a rather handsome but troubled elf named Lethuel who seems determined to hunt and kill a dragon. This dragon reveals herself to be just as stormy and chaotic as ...

A desperate deal is made between a certain money lender and smuggler, a known double-dealer named Kinkaid. A life for a life to the dark, mysterious fugitive, Lord William Crandall. A beautiful and clever young woman of the countryside village of Gales-Faerie Way, Cara of Swans, lives a pleasant, simple life caring for her grandmother, Grammy Swan, in a little cottage by a pond where swans and pixies, sprites, sylphs, and nixies watch over her. Her days are spent in herb gardens, swan watching, and daydreaming with a precious mandolin, the only remaining token of her beloved mother. ...

Now taken aboard an alien warship, the Executor, Mari Parenteau and her companions, Akiko Senada and Victoria Bradley, must do what they can to survive and navigate relations with their new hostess, a physician named Phey La. As they are processed as prisoners aboard the Executor, a startling revelation is made, and their intended fates are revealed to them. The captives of Oberon One will have to stand trial and answer for three-hundred years of Earth's history! Three hundred years marked with violence, atrocity, and destructiveness. The outcome of this trial could bring them quick ...

Sacrificing freedom to ensure the safe return of her Oberon One crewmates and friends, fourteen-year-old Mari Parenteau and her crewmate, Akiko Senada, are prisoners and slaves of Proxima under the watchful eye of Dr. Phey La of the Academic Caste. Mari thinks she has a plan to save Earth from an alien invasion by the Centauri of Proxima Centauri-B... but when things seem desperate and uncertain, Mari needs to think of escape and survival. What she needs is a bright idea. What she finds is a unique friend with a guiding light. On the Centauri warship Executor, a ragtag crew of Centauri ...

An innocent couple. An impossible home invasion. On a brutally cold, stormy December night, Akiko and Tran Nguyen are savagely murdered in their apartment. Their killer? Unknown but able to perform grizzly acts without leaving behind a single trace. No prints, no trails to follow, no forensic evidence to guide investigators anywhere but in circles. The special crimes task force of Hartford has only one potential witness. Akiko and Tran Nguyen's Deaf thirteen-year-old daughter, Miyoko Nguyen. Found asleep undisturbed in her own locked bedroom, Miyoko is woken from dream into horrible, ...

Taken into the world of the great immortal artists, painters, musicians, and composers, Diana Tremont must learn to adapt to the existence of a vampire if she is to be worthy of her eternal gift. As one of the Orchid, she must become a guardian and custodian of the beautiful, creative, and those touched by the Muse with the Divine Spark. AislingTuck, is just a wanderer, loner, and high school wallflower trying to navigate a life of constant change and upheaval. When she meets Diana Tremont, she can no longer hide or shy away. She finds herself thrust into the center of a centuries' old ...

Cedric the Damned. Rachel the Youngest. David the Loner. Smudge the Festering. Four very different immortals with four very unique memoirs. Strangers to each other but brought together by unseen hands and machinations. Each of them believes they exist as a solo movement, but they unknowingly become woven together in a macabre symphony as their lives and exploits cross paths. Midnight Rhapsody is also an exploration into the personal, intimate reflections and experiences of four immortals--vampires. Each staring into the mirror of their mind where their mortal lives are reflected upon. What ...

It begins with a woman enjoying a morning jog. Along the way, she gets sort of turned around. Streets no longer seem so familiar, subtle changes here and there appear among the scenery. Places appear and disappear or apparently relocate themselves. Faces change, names become unclear, and the lines between dream and reality find themselves getting blurred. Is Erika Lunport losing more than just her sense of direction? Is she lost in a loop of strange dreams or is there something more happening to her? Is she lost in dreams or are these hallucinations? What began as a morning jog becomes a ...