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An orphaned 1980s teenager travels through time to the Jazz Age to discover the mystery of her identity in this sweetly confected historical fantasia...
(Kirkus Reviews)
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line-height:118%;color:black;">Ronald Reagan is president and Denver is reeling from the 1970s Oil Boom when sixteen-year-old Jett finds work making confections for Watson's Candies. Hiding from Social Services and a diligent detective, the young woman is pleasantly surprised to learn her new job includes room and board.br />
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The elderly couple running the store offers her the home she'd never known but when tragedy strikes, the hard-as-nails orphan wakes up in the psychiatric ward in a strangely altered world. Watson& | |  | | The Healing Crystal, Book One, Heir to Power
What happens when a backward village discovers they hold an object of unimaginable power, a power other men covet, a power that might save or forever damn the human race?
Kairma would rather go spelunking with her brother and his best friend, Collin, than study ancient medicine and religious laws, but as the eldest daughter, she is heir to the Healing Crystal and destined mate with the handsome Naturi, becoming the leader of the reclusive colony of Survin. br />
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For more than four hundred years, the small colony has been hidden in the mountains, shielding the Crystal from evil men who would steal or destroy the relic. Disease and infertility have decimated Survin, but bigotry and religious laws forbid the introduction of new members or the | |  | | The Healing Crystal, Book Three, Ransom
When freedom fighter Rand Solis allies himself with young Kairma, the Heir to the Crystal, they discover in order to heal the world, both must sacrifice friends, religious beliefs, and political philosophies. Together they learn that every political philosophy is perfect in a given moment, but moments are fleeting.
As winter turns to spring in the high mountains, the small band of Survin refugees is violently divided. While faith crumbles for one, another's is renewed, but the gulf between them threatens to become impossible to bridge. Kinter, lost in the shadow of her sister, Kairma, maneuvers to seize the Crystal and displace Kairma as Vice Miral. br />
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Collin learns he will be forever barred from Kairma by the evil carried in her blood unless the power of the Crystal can be realized, and although Ris would like to be cured of his disease, he, too, fears the untapped power o | |  | | The Healing Crystal, Book Two, Fall of Eden
What is the Healing Crystal and who is the rightful heir? Is it a religious object or a powerful weapon? Does it belong to a fallen line of kings or to the colonists of Survin? Should its fate be left in the hands of the young and inexperienced Kairma or to Narvin, the last descendent of a line of kings?
Kairma holds the Crystal and believes she will become the next leader of Survin, while her younger sister Kinter, believes she, not Kairma, is the rightful heir. Narvin believes the Healing Crystal is the Star of Genesis, a powerful relic his ancestors have been seeking for centuries. Determined to possess the object that will return him to his glory, Narvin is unwavering in his quest to possess it, and Kairma is caught in a fierce race across barren deserts and rugged mountains to a shattering finish where the winner must decide the fate of the world.
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