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|  | | A Mix of Magics (Arucadi: The Beginning, Book 3)
When the members of the Gifted Community of Port-of-Lords, Arucadi, are faced with a foe bent on destroying them, they try to unite to oppose him, but their varying magical powers collide and create chaos. They must learn to work together or face destruction.
Marta and Ed Robbins, long childless, are thrilled when their friend Kyla tells them of an orphaned infant in need of parents. They travel to the city of Port-of-Lords, where Kyla leads the Gifted Community. That Community gathers to celebrate the baby's Naming-Day, a joyous occasion that ends in disaster when an old enemy kidnaps and threatens to kill the child. Marta, Ed, Kyla, and Veronica, Kyla's 14-year-old ward, have all encountered Jerome Esterville previously and know what a dangerous foe he is. Still, although the Community members have differing powers and are at various levels of ab | |  | | A Perilous Power
Prequel to A School for Sorcery, this book tells the story of Trevor Blake and his best friend, Lesley Simonton, for whom the School for the Magically Gifted is named.
p style="text-indent: 14.35pt; tab-stops: .1875in" class="MsoBodyText">span style="language: EN; mso-ansi-language: EN">Trevor Blake is highly gifted with magical power, but his parents have forbidden him to use that power. In the small farming community where Trevor lives with his family, the practice of magic is looked upon as dangerous and evil. But Trevor’s Uncle Matt and Aunt Ellen, gifted themselves, send Trevor to the large coastal city of Port-of-Lords, armed with letters of introduction to a Community of the Gifted where Trevor can get the training his aunt and | |  | | A School for Sorcery
Tria Tesserell enrolls in the Lesley Simonton School for the Magically Gifted to discover her gifts and learn to use them, but that training involves challenges she never expected.
p style="margin-top: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in" class="MsoNormal">span style="line-height: 100%; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11pt; language: EN; mso-ansi-language: EN">Both apprehensive and excited about her new school—The Lesley Simonton School for the Magically Gifted—Tria Tesserell is nevertheless unprepared for her biggest shock of all: her new roommate, Lina, a shapechanger who assumes the form of a black panther. Impatient with rules and homework, Lina violates school rules by using her power at will and against whoever displeases her. o | |  | | Bringers of Magic
The second book of Arucadi: The Beginning. These earlier books of the Arucadi series form the background to the Arucadi series beginning with A School for Sorcery but are intended for older teens or adults.
Wonder workers have come to the town of Carey in Arucadi's heartland, and the town will never be the same.br />
Ed Robbins, known to the townsfolk as Simple Eddie, discovers that he is magically gifted, and his life is transformed. Abigail Dormer, respected headmistress of the Dormer Primary School for Young Ladies, does not believe in magic and is convinced that Kyla and Marta are charlatans until Abigail's own magic abilities reveal themselves, much to her consternation. Jerome Esterville, rebellious son of a pious mother, also discovers a gift, but it is wild magic, n | |  | | Bryte's Ascent
Young Bryte lives on her own in the flats at the base of the tiered city of Tirbat but she's determined to better a lot, and when two strange young people arrive in Tirbat they seem to show her the way to begin her ascent.
div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"> Bryte's determination to improve her lot sets her on a path fraught with deadly peril. She lives in a lean-to beneath a bridge in the flats around Tirbat, Arucadi’s seven-tiered capital city, but dreams of life on the fifth tier, home of the father who rejected her mother and refuses to acknowledge her. When Bryte is hired as a guide by Oryon and Lina, two magically gifted young people who’ve come to Tirbat to seek their fortunes, her ascent begins, but many pitfalls l | |  | | Deathright
Korth, a slave raised ignorance, wants to be his own man—not an easily attained goal when an evil sorceress, a beautiful goddess, and a mysterious juggler are each determined to manipulate him to fit their own plans.
Born into slavery, Korth knows no other life until he receives special training and is sent to perform the rite of Lord's-Kill, a mercy killing of the aged and ill Lord of the Manor. He is unaware that on performing this rite he will receive the Lord's dying breath and with it the lord's spirit and his wisdom. Dama Koralie, serving as regent and loath to surrender her power, arranges to have Korth assassinated during the night following the rite. Instead, Korth uses his well-honed skill to kill the assassin. He flees, seeking freedom from punishment and slavery, but he discovers that freedom d | |  | | Grandy's Grand Inventions
This children's chapter book is a story of a girl's love for her grandfather, an inventor whose inventions often go awry.
Judy Cameron adores her grandfather, but there’s a problem. Grandy loves to invent things, and his inventions rarely turn out well. Instead, they always seem to make a terrible mess throughout the house. For that reason, Judy's mom does not welcome Grandy's visits. Judy has been promised any one thing she wants (within reason, of course) if she earns straight As on her next report card. She does, and furthermore her birthday is coming very soon. How can her parents deny her wish—a visit from Grandy—even if he brings along another weird and wacky invention? | |  | | Mistress of the Wind
This fantasy novel is the story of Kyla Cren, a windspeaker, whose search for revenge against the mindstealers responsible for her parents' deaths encounters a haughty but attractive mage with his own deadly scheme for destroying the mindstealers.
span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Windspeaker Kyla Cren gathers news from the wind and passes on to her village its warnings about mindstealers, creatures that rob human minds, leaving their victims insensible and helpless. Because Kyla's parents were victims of mindstealers, the need for revenge consumes her. But when her attack on two mindstealers results in the rescue of their victim, a powerful mage, that mage thrusts up | |  | | Seduction of the Scepter
Eighteenth Century noblewoman Lara Basmajinik finds her vow to marry for love rather than for political advantage to her House impossible to keep.
span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Lara Basmajinik cannot allow herself to fall in love with handsome Prince Kasavarion; her older sister is betrothed to the crown prince, and Kasavarion may not marry the sister of his brother’s wife. But when the crown prince suddenly dies, Kasavarion becomes heir to the throne and is free to marry Lara—until he is accused of murdering his brother. Because of an ability | |  | | Shadow of a Demon
India Terrano carries within her a Viseg—a creature that feeds on energy and can spit that energy out with tremendous destructive force. She wants desperately to be rid of it, but that seems impossible.
div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">span style="font-size: 12pt">"You must learn to communicate with him, to understand him," the Mother Superior of the Daughters of Mercy says of the thing that dwells inside India Terrano, the thing India regards as a demon. It is a Viseg, a creature that feeds on energy and can spit that energy out with tremendous destructive force. It has endangered India's family and blasted her fiancé's mind, leaving him a living corpse. It has made her a fugitive, hunted both by the Solarian Patrol, which intends to put her to death, and by | |  | | The Gift of the Trinde Tree
In this second book of the Terrano Trilogy China gets her revenge on Vic Triller and Bailey Marshall gets into a great deal of trouble.
div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Bailey Marshall, partnered with Vic Triller, is assigned the mission of discovering the source of a rare mind-expanding drug. He and Vic failed at their previous assignment of delivering India Terrano safely to a CATT laboratory. Marshall is determined not to fail at this one. But he doesn't reckon on China Terrano, India's sister. China kills Triller, frames Marshall for the murder, and leaves him facing a painful death. Only one person can save him: Melalie Noris, a woman who hates him and whom he se | |  | | To the Far Side of the Forest
This is a Young Adult fantasy novel aimed at middle school age or above. It is the story of a young girl in a tribal culture who unearths a terrible secret and is forced to flee into the forest to save her life.
Serollyn is a young person just coming of age in a small, isolated living on the tip of a long peninsula, the upper two-thirds of which is covered with a dense forest. As a loyal member of her tribe and devoted to the Life Lenders who watch over that tribe, Serollyn looks forward to receiving the life-guide who, unseen by all others, will protect and guide her for the rest of her life. She does not expect to uncover a monstrous deception and be driven from her people by those who fear the truth she can now reveal.
She, along with loyal friends, take refuge in the forest despite its dangers | |  | | Touch of Death
This third book in the Terrano Trilogy completes the story of China Terrano, her brother Paolo, her sister India, Bailey Marshall, and K. T. Malloran
China Terrano launches a search for her beloved half-brother, Paolo, determined to find him no matter how far through the Galaxy her quest may take her or how perilous the search may become. To achieve her goal, she enlists the man whom she framed for murder and who has sworn to get revenge; she persuades the woman Paolo once loved to abandon her position as Mother Superior of a newly established mission of the Daughters of Mercy and join her quest; and she entrusts all their lives to an enigmatic hermaphrodite with a hidden purpose. Will that mismatched quartet be enough to rescue Paolo?&n | |  | | Were House
This urban fantasy novel is the story of weres who are not shapeshifters but rather have an animal spirit that can come out and take physical form, leaving its host in a trance-like state and therefore vulnerable.
Jobless and evicted from her apartment, Charlotte Ramirez has nowhere to go. Being were compounds her problem. The animal spirit inside her is a jaguar, and it's restless. When she passes a man on the street and recognizes, via her unique ability to "see" the animal within other weres, that he carries within him the spirit of a wolf, she turns to follow him only to see him brutally stabbed. Because she witnessed the stabbing she is contacted by other weres and taken to the house of a clan of weres. Has she found the home she is looking for or only more trouble? To win a place in the clan she i | |  | | When the Beast Ravens
The sequel to A School for Sorcery, this book chronicles the further adventures of the major characters from School as they complete their final year of training at the Lesley Simonton School for the Magically Gifted.
p style="margin-top: 3pt; text-indent: 7.15pt; tab-stops: .125in .5in" class="MsoNormal">span style="line-height: 100%; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11pt; language: EN; mso-ansi-language: EN">It has been over aspan style="mso-spacerun: yes"> /span>year since Gray Becq’s perilous escape from the Dire Realms. A year since a fellow student—having used his emerging powers of sorcery to league himself with dark forces—betrayed Gray. Locked him away in a world beyond time, a world of unspeakable evil and unbearable tortures. Had it not been for Tria Te |
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The Tale of Bowen Book One
by Peter Jessop
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 The first instalment of The Tales of Bowen unfolds a mesmerizing anthology of narratives intricately woven together by a grand overarching storyline, set against the enchanting backdrop of the mystical realms of Dagonfell. |
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