Tag: Coming of age
Guardians of the Light
Seventeen-year-old Emerin Gareth has always known that there is something unusual about her. Constantly plagued by headaches that compel her to wander away from home and into the surrounding mountains, Emerin is always a source of concern to her parents and her future husband. She knows that she will never be able to live the […]
A Boy, a Girl, and a Ghost: A Novel of… Love, Life, & Family
A Novel of… Love, Life, & Family A Boy. Sixteen-year-old Aaron Wade. With his “second strike” with leukemia in remission and his health restored, the summer of 1977 feels like a turning point… until he starts to see a ghost in the Cedar City, Utah graveyard. A Girl. Seventeen-year-old Helena Monfort. She grew up too […]
Heirs of the Frost: The Deathweaver Series, Book 1
The Hybrids stand on the brink of extinction. Each day they struggle for survival and fight tooth and nail against annihilation, but they are alone. Most of the world doesn’t know of them. Those who do are just as likely to help them as to call them an abomination, an unholy blend of human and […]
A Diamond in My Pocket (The Unaltered Book 1)
J.K. Rowling meets Stephen King in this fresh, thrilling take on superpowers. Currently being optioned for film. After breaking the 100m world record, sixteen-year-old Calli is whisked away to a secret facility where she’s placed with other teens who possess superhuman speed. She soon finds herself in a deadly situation involving other superpowers, a mystical […]
Girl Fights Back
Emily Kane has gone missing… …and the world’s spy agencies are determined to find her. They think she’s been genetically modified as a human weapon. Now, she’ll need all her skills to make it to tomorrow. Her father taught her everything he knew, how to hide, how to live off the land… and how to […]
Days of Ascent: A Novel
The first step on Rory Beaumont’s long road home is an idyllic stay on the Island with Lillian as he begins coming to terms with the loss of his brother Neil. Rory walks in Neil’s steps as he takes part in a dramatic protest in Auckland. The following year a dinner-table conversation with Ewan; Rory’s […]
Lonely Girl & Loner Boy
‘Youth is Evil’ These are the words by which our protagonist Leo lives by…Leo is an outcast, who has not had human contact in god knows how long. He can easily count all his friend and dear ones with no hands at all. His life reeks of loneliness. This sounds like some kind of curse […]
The Boys Who Woke Up Early
Playing cops was just a game until the bullets were real. The gravy train hasn’t stopped in the hollers of western Virginia for more than thirty years when Stony Shelor starts his junior year at Jubal Early High. Class divides and racism are still the hardened norms as the Eisenhower years draw to a close. […]
Hippies
By 1970, the hippie scene was faltering, a victim of both inner contradictions and external forces. The Vietnam war resistance, psychedelic drugs, sexual openness, the freedom of the commune – it seemed that everything about the 1960s could be incredibly liberating or wildly destructive. Against this backdrop, Jazmine, Ziggy, Ragman and a coterie of hippies […]
The Dragon Wakes
A world built on the tales of dragon kings. Powerful brothers at war. An orphan girl sold as a bride. Long ago, the Kingdom of Estala was a place of dragons and sorcerers. Those with magical powers were more than human, they were Menti. But now Menti sorcery is outlawed by the capricious king, and […]
