by Mark Iles
Two books by Joy Redmond
ANNA’S VISIONS
Anna Morgan is a seer, and she sees visions of impending doom for her granddaughter, Tori Hicks, the day Tori is born. Through the years, she experiences more unnerving visions, but she can’t put the pieces together and figure out how to save Tori.
Tori is an only child coming of age in a small town in Kentucky where no one locks their doors and everyone knows everyone. From her earliest childhood, she has lived a fairytale life along with her best friend, Jill. When she and Jill enter high school, Tori meets Wesley Asner, the love of her life. But when tragedy strikes, Tori and Wesley find their lives torn apart.
Broken-hearted and desperate for a change, Tori sneaks off to Florida for what she hopes will be a romantic adventure that will take her mind off Wesley. On the beach, she meets Cody Baxter, a handsome young pharmacist who is hiding a dark and dangerous secret…
GIVE ME WINGS
Carnikko was abandoned by her father and then forced into foster care after the loss of her mother at an early age. Even after she’s finally adopted, the world around her is still uncertain—and her days are filled with an insistent sense of loneliness.
Then one day she’s visited by an invisible—yet very real—entity calling itself Purple Angel, who begins to help Carnikko slowly come to terms with her past, her present circumstances, and the possibility that her future can be bright, in spite of the obstacles life has placed in her path.
Using the power of her mind, Carnikko and Purple Angel fly to a special place where she can find the serenity and peace she so desperately longs for—and where she can learn to first acknowledge and then control the anger that’s been growing inside her for so long.
Two fantasy books by KateMarie Collins
DAUGHTER OF HAUK
What would you do, if you found out your life was a lie? After you were dead?
Arwenna Shalian spent her life in loyal service to a God she was never meant to serve. Tricked by her fellow priests, she betrayed a man she thought she loved by binding a demon to him. One that would send him to the brink of madness. Can she find a way to forgive herself? And what of Hauk, the God she was Marked to serve? Will He find her and give her the chance to undo what she’s done, or leave her at the mercy of the creatures that torture her soul?
MARK OF THE SUCCESSOR
Dominated and controlled by an abusive mother, Lily does what she can to enjoy fleeting moments of normality. When a break from school only provides the opportunity for more abuse at home, the sudden appearance of a stranger turns her world even bleaker. Disappearing without a trace, he has left a lingering fear with his parting words to her mother, “Have her ready to travel tomorrow.” Running away is the only answer. But before Lily can execute her plan, a shimmering portal appears in her room, along with two strangers who promise to help keep her safe. With time running out, she accepts their offer for escape and accompanies them into a brand new world, a world where she’s the kidnapped daughter of a Queen, and the heir to the throne of Tiadar. Can she find her own strength to overcome both an abusive past and avoid those who would use her as a means to power?
STILL ROCK WATER
Francene Stanley
Wearing an inherited ring, Liliha witnesses a flood on the other side of the world. With her thoughts, she guides bystanders to help the victims. Back in her own kitchen, she dismisses the strange vision as a dream. However, she then hears coverage of the disaster on the news. Despite her unique ability, which grows stronger with each vision, Liliha is powerless to change her depressed, belittling husband. Betrayed, she takes her daughters to Cornwall where she meets her childhood friend Oliver and his spiteful girlfriend. Back home, her husband wants a divorce and has arranged full-time boarding for her teenage daughters. Worst of all, she’s lost her ring on the trip. She returns to St Ives to begin a new life. The police discover her ring on a washed-up body and send it to the British museum for assessment. Liliha learns the ring once belonged to the God’s Wife of Amun. A friend relaxes her into a regression where she recalls her former life as the Egyptian priestess. She worries that Oliver, like her first husband, wants to control her. Loneliness eats away at her spirit…The ring has helped others, why can’t it help her find solace?
Sweeping, epic in scope, spare and poetic, Liliha’s story is as irresistible as the pull of her ancient moonstone ring. Still Rock Water is a whirlwind of sensory delight and mystery, told in spare and poetic prose, with characters so clearly drawn, their humanity rings across the deserts of ancient Egypt, through the annals of time and straight to the reader’s heart. - Carol Kean. Author of Left on Stonehaven and Ironwolf.
THE SINGING MOUNTAIN
Anne E. Summers
As a miner’s daughter, Megan betrays her valley heritage by marrying out of her class, thus setting off a train of events that threaten to destroy everything she loves.
Accused of murder and madness Megan doesn’t know where to turn. Then, chance beckons in the guise of Alun, a gypsy friend. Alun believes in her and together they jump through a circle of stones and embark on an adventure in a mythological world parallel to their own but in a different time.
In their quest to find the White Witch who could clear Megan’s name, they experience magic and mystery and learn to accept multiple lifetimes and “elastic time.” Then Megan meets Wil, an immortal with whom she feels an inexplicable affinity…
Spanning the decades from 1918 to 1940, The Singing Mountain brings to life the myths of the Mabinogion as it explores Welsh culture and the power of love and yearning.
RIM ROAD
Patricia A. Martinelli
What do you do when your comfortable life falls apart?
Julia D’Angelo flees to New Orleans, hoping to find answers to some very difficult questions, but instead soon finds herself trapped in an alternate reality.
Her only hope of finding her way home is to follow the Rim Road, which leads her to new friends and dangerous enemies.