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Saving your people shouldn't mean them losing themselves.Roger, Third Prince of Congu, has spent more than a year trying to bring what he learned in Anglia to his people. When he considers returning to Anglia, an old conversation inspires him to try one more time. He sets off a chain of events which results in a young woman building a steam engine like her father's, and Roger being sent as a herald to the Congu's traditional enemies.Both the S...

Five years after the events of Regent's Reign, Rodrigo is on the run in the Empire, his face on posters as an enemy spy. In Belandria, Marriette is frustrated that after five years, she is no closer to a working council of commoners and nobles. As events in the Empire conspire to create chaos and endanger all the Rehego, Belandria teeters on the edge of civil war. Commoners tired of waiting to have power over their lives declare their villages...

Mines are dangerous, never more so than when greed outweighs all other concerns.When a series of events leads to the death of Georgia's fiance, she packs up and heads south. Behind her Jim and Leigh struggle with their own issues. Training cadets to be special officers in the north sounds good, but when a class gets off track, it could be deadly.Georgia can't escape the grief and anger the mine caused with Brad's death, and when she find echoe...

The murder of a close friend could have haunted me forever, and it did for four years. Then a discussion with a wise woman opened my eyes to a spiritual world I'd been missing.Through the story of my journey from grief and fear to peace, and teaching stories of the Medicine Wheel, I invite you to join my on this pilgrimage.

The 'Keeper of the Shell' is the story of Iona who lives alone on an island. She finds a shell beneath a mango tree. The shell transports her on travels to a magical world which take her under and then across the sea, in order to to save a lost Kingdom from the vile trolls. Through many hardships and adventures she finds new friends and discovers her rightful destiny.

Louise Kennedy grew up in pioneer Alberta. She tells stories of her childhood life on the farm, berry picking, gardening, going to school. She starts in Plamondon, Alberta, then they move north to Breyat to build a new home.

War is coming, whoever rules the air will be unstoppable.When Cal boarded the Kestrel as First Mate after the Crown Prince asked her to build him an airship, she expected to learn command, as he'd insisted, but dangers at sea, then at home shatter her dream of drawing plans in a quiet studio. Instead she is thrust into politics at the highest level, enemies snap at her heels and some who she isn't sure if they are enemy or friend. Intrigue, be...

When age rules the country, it's hard being young.Trey runs away from the youth reserve sure he's nomore than spare parts for a father he barely remembers.The Council of Elders has its own questions abouthim. When Trey finds the Underground and joins thefight to give rights back to the Youngers, he starts achain of events beyond anyone's control.

Zombies aren't real. Maybe for ants, but not for humans.Pranthi makes her living with hercamera - it keeps her at a comfortabledistance from the world. Pictures ofthe first person to go zombie give hera huge scoop. The lens can't protecther as more people are infected. As aformer street kid from India, Pranthiknows she's tough, but not toughenough to deal with zombies, as if shehad a choice.

A white moose, seen as a spirit animal by the Cree is shot. The hunters are murdered, then the hunting lodges burned to the ground. A group calling themselves the White Moose Clan has declared war on Canada and Spruce Bay is caught in the middle. Jim and Leigh struggle with escalating tensions between groups in town as events spiral out of control.

They've never gone on a quest. They've never done anything that wasn't in The Book. God appears in Paul's kitchen during breakfast and sends Paul on a quest. The quest begins by taking the first person he meets as his companion. Daniel comes by to trade for vegetable and begins a Tuesday that ends with them on the road away from their home with only a Page from Paul's Book to guide them. Paul and Daniel learn very quickly that the world is big...

Ten year old Justine has lived with the loss of her mother for two years. Even while she misses her Mom, she is discovering the gifts they share. When bullying at school makes Justine's life miserable she befriends a tree she calls Drasil. It fair that life causes so much pain for Justine, so her father is happy she has a new friend, even if it is a tree.Justine tells stories of visiting a land where peace if valued above everything else, and ...

Calliope is an artist who works for her explorer father recording what he brings back from his journeys in her sketchbooks. Then she has a chance to go along on a trip to capture a sea serpent.Life at sea isn't what she expected, boredom sends her exploring down to the engine room of the steamship Peregrine. Tragedy makes her assistant engineer. Pentam, her father's protege doesn't like her putting herself at risk, but this is just the beginni...

Eager to start fresh, Leigh accepts a teaching job in the remote northern community of Spruce Bay. The fading mining community is rife with abandoned homes that breed a class of listless alcoholics and violent gangs. Resentment and hopelessness fill the cold air. Nevertheless, Leigh loves the town and the kids in her classes.Just as she begins believing everything will work out, she has a second psychotic break from reality. And another teache...

Princess Annuetta is bored, but then she's always bored. She lives a boring life in a boring Kingdom ruled by a boring... Oops, better not finish that or her father the King will be angry. What can he do with his Princess of Boring? Maybe the servant girl, Sally has an answer.

The Heronmaster is the second collection of Alex McGilvery's stories. They include the title story, the tale of Leaper who grows from a tadpole to become a legend. Murder in the Woods is a noir style mystery with animals rather than people. Nick, a young wolf, is forced to seek out the answer to Bob the moose's disappearance. Sammy is a the story of a young man on a cruise with his new car, the elderly man he takes with him and a red balloon. ...

The Unenchanted Princess tells the tale of a princess born without an enchantement in a magic land where all royalty is surrounded by enchantment. Alexandra refuses to give in to her parents' schemes to find her an enchantment or marry her off to someone willing to overlook her lack. She runs away to escape, but soon learns she is at the heart of a struggle to control the Magic Lands. Together with the Frog Prince, a Prince Charming who is tur...

Sparkles and Blood is a collection of four of my horror novellas, including a never before published story. Frost and Stone: Siobhan accidentally releases evil into the world. Now she must find the strength in herself to defeat it before the moon is new. The Thing in the Hall: Wolf arrives at Rolph's Hall to test himself against the Thing that invades and kills Rolph's men. Yet slaying the monstrous Thing may only be the beginning of his probl...

When King Harald sets off on his pilgrimage of atonement, Marriette is made Regent, much to her dismay and that of the hidebound Council. Before long whispers of treachery surround her as her councillors, the Empire, and even the Church try to manipulate her for their own ends. The King and Queen vanish and the power struggles grow more deadly. There is more than just Marriette's life on the line if she falters.The Regent's Reign is a follow u...

The Frog Prince, Snow White, and Cinderella, everyone is familiar with these stories, but not the way they appear in this collection. What if the Frog Prince was really only a frog? Would it be so bad if Cinderalla stayed past midnight? Snow White is staying in the woods with the dwarves, but these aren't her grandmother's dwarves. Read these tales and more.