Tag: Portal fantasy

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The Wish That Saved Christmas

When hope in a troubled town fades, tiny figure Nell secretly comes to life to save her beloved human, Emma.
Emma’s father is in a hospital with the mysterious illness that swept through town, her mother lost her job and their greedy landlord is making them leave home. The mayor invites everyone to bring a decoration for the town’s giant Christmas tree as symbols of hope. Desperate Emma makes a wish on the tree’s angel, and her tiny figurine Nell comes to life.
Nell journeys through the sparkling Christmas tree to visit the angel. She discovers she is one of a secret magical community of living treasures who help humankind. When the fate of their hopeless town falls to her, can she save Emma and the town in time for Christmas?

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Secrets of the Sorcery War: Ruarnon Trilogy, Book 2

Secrets lie across the seas.
Heir Ruarnon seeks allies to free their parents from unpredictable sorcerer-king Nartzeer. The reclusive Urai are not who they had in mind but can offer far more than Ruarnon anticipates. However, negotiations are interrupted when Nartzeer’s murderous grey-hided damars are sighted sailing towards Tarlah.
The damars’ human handlers are lost Aussie Linh’s chance to confirm that her gateway home —and sorcerers able (and hopefully willing) to operate it— lie in the dangerous West.
When Linh sets sail to confront the handlers, she learns that magic is very much still wielded on Umarinaris. That some of the Sorcery War’s deadliest weapons survived. And that Nartzeer somehow knows all of this, and has his own plans for those weapons.
But is Nartzeer the villain everyone in the East believes? What do his fleets truly seek in the Eastern Seas? And why have the damars become so formidable that they threaten to sink Ruarnon’s ship and overrun all of Ruarnon’s potential allies?

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A Soul as Cold as Frost

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good fright…
After Helen Bell’s eyes are opened to see the invisible Rime folk who drift into our world from a realm called “Winter,” she’s compelled to go on the run into their snowy world to avoid being forced to battle in the Quarrel of Sword and bone: a death sentence for anyone who steps into the arena with the deranged Winter Queen, whose soul crisped to frost long ago.
A Soul of Cold and Frost is Book #1 of The Winter Souls Series, a fantastical Christmas themed collection.

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Rebellion is Due: Ruarnon Trilogy Prequel

Everywhere he looks, 15-year-old Urmllian sees his people suffering under brutal foreign occupation. High taxes drive poverty and malnutrition, while the execution of anyone suspected of resistance has the people of Tarlah on their knees. Urmilian longs to join his father’s uprising and free his people, despite father’s orders to protect the family home. When occupying soldiers turn on the Tarlahans, Urmilian’s younger brother calls for aid. But the streets are filling with soldiers. If Urmilian doesn’t help cut them off, the city will be overrun. So he risks both their lives by abandoning his household’s defence and joining his older sister on the front line.
An action-packed YA Fantasy short story (7500 words), set before Manipulator’s War.

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Dragons in the Weaving: Roots and Stars, Book Two

The tapestry thickens
When Shelta is injured in battle, she travels to Asgard to save her unborn child. In return, the gods ask her to become the first world-weaver in ages: a dragon rider whose actions ripple through all of creation. Her mission: to shift the currents of destruction poisoning the multiverse of the World Tree.
But combat training with Thor and riddles with Merlin can only go so far. Secretly, Shelta turns to Loki, a self-professed connoisseur of musicians, and trades her most vulnerable songs for a pair of enchanted blades that allow her to open portals and kill with a thought. Shelta doesn’t want to be a vigilante, and she’s no one’s savior, but she’ll do what it takes to protect her family from the schemes of gods.