The Cairn of Troubles--part two

In the midst of the burdens she was already had to bear, Branwen is confronted by an unexpected tragedy, threatening to tear apart even the fragile remains of her family. Will the reminder of life's sweetness she gained from the dragonet be enough to save them?

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The Cairn of Troubles--part one

Branwen feels drained apathetic, worn out from tending the farm and caring for her daughter, while her husband sees off cattle raids, a far cry from the wild hopefulness she felt when she eloped with him almost ten years ago. She assumes the dreary round of her life will continue virtually unchanged, until leads her to start to see things afresh.

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Oshana--part three

Part three—Having fought her way back out of the herring ball, Oshana now faces the even more daunting prospect of helping her companions defend against the horror she found within.

Oshana is a young mermaid who lives in a community sheltered by a living coral reef and spends her time hunting, scavenging ruins for valuables, and dreaming of bonding with her beloved Wendaro. Unfortunately, his parents, put off by her family's relative lack of wealth, feel she needs to do something exceptional to prove herself first but Oshana is at loss regarding how to do this in this undersea coming of age tale.

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Oshana--part two

Part two—Still smarting from her future bond mother's insult, Oshana heads out on a hunt with her friends but the omens are bad from start and things just get worse when Wendaro's younger sister insists on coming along and Oshana has to put herself in harms way to protect the girl. 

Oshana is a young mermaid who lives in a community sheltered by a living coral reef and spends her time hunting, scavenging ruins for valuables, and dreaming of bonding with her beloved Wendaro. Unfortunately, his parents, put off by her family's relative lack of wealth, feel she needs to do something exceptional to prove herself first but Oshana is at loss regarding how to do this in this undersea coming of age tale.

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Oshana--part one

 Part one—Oshana's foray to scavenge from the nearby ruins goes poorly and, as predicted Wendaro's parents are not impressed and only add insult to injury, in front of witnesses no less.

Oshana is a young mermaid who lives in a community sheltered by a living coral reef and spends her time hunting, scavenging ruins for valuables, and dreaming of bonding with her beloved Wendaro. Unfortunately, his parents, put off by her family's relative lack of wealth, feel she needs to do something exceptional to prove herself first but Oshana is at loss regarding how to do this in this undersea coming of age tale.

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Vita Nuova Part Three

 

 Part Two—KazaKu is able to pull off her desperate plan to remain with Karak/Beatrus with remarkably little difficulty, only to discover that winner the battle sometimes means losing the war or, worse, that the war was doomed to be lost before it was even begun.

KazaKu is a boarder at the local sanctum for the arcanely gifted, possessing the battle gift which endows her with more than human strength and dexterity and a powerful resistance to fatigue and injury. Unfortunately, even if the side effect of this type of gift was an extremely violent temper, her options would be limited. Those with the battle gift make fine warriors but are good for little else and, since in her society women can not be warriors, she is left in a decidedly uncomfortable position. But she has not chaffed overmuch regarding lack of social prospects, present and future, unable to imagine an alternative, until a chain of events takes her life in a radically different direction.

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Vita Nuova Part Two

 Part Two—Kaza Ku is grows closer to Beatrus/Karak and more at ease with his friends and their pastimes. Yes Felix is annoying and Heinrich's intentions highly suspect but they are a small price to pay to be near the object of her adoration. But then she receives terrible news that will destroy all she treasures unless she acts fast and then, with time running out, she realizes the even more horrifying solution.

KazaKu is a boarder at the local sanctum for the arcanely gifted, possessing the battle gift which endows her with more than human strength and dexterity and a powerful resistance to fatigue and injury. Unfortunately, even if the side effect of this type of gift was an extremely violent temper, her options would be limited. Those with the battle gift make fine warriors but are good for little else and, since in her society women can not be warriors, she is left in a decidedly uncomfortable position. But she has not chaffed overmuch regarding lack of social prospects, present and future, unable to imagine an alternative, until a chain of events takes her life in a radically different direction.

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Vita Nuova--Part One

 

Part one—KazaKu is persuaded by Shalana, the closest thing she has to a friend, to climb onto the roof of the monastery next door in order to spy on Prince Beatrus, who has been sent there for relief from the burden of ruling as a possible respite from the nameless sorrow that had plagued him for years. From her hiding place, she discovers his secret talent and combination of ability and sadness inexplicably drives her to take ever greater risks to learn more about him.

KazaKu is a boarder at the local sanctum for the arcanely gifted, possessing the battle gift which endows her with more than human strength and dexterity and a powerful resistance to fatigue and injury. Unfortunately, even if the side effect of this type of gift was an extremely violent temper, her options would be limited. Those with the battle gift make fine warriors but are good for little else and, since in her society women can not be warriors, she is left in a decidedly uncomfortable position. But she has not chaffed overmuch regarding lack of social prospects, present and future, unable to imagine an alternative, until a chain of events takes her life in a radically different direction.

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Then, if the Choice be Mine, I Choose to March

 

Young warrior Sarna returns for a comforting visit to her childhood home, only to find that her mother's addiction to the reya plant has caused her to fall afoul of its vengeful guardian spirit and she becomes caught up in a desperate overwhelming battle to preserve the first love and refuge she ever knew.

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Wrath of Sligoth Part Four

 Part Four-- Reaching the end of their limit, physically and psychologically, Coranna and her companions stake all on one last desperate gamble, to destroy that which hunts them before they grow too weak to resist as it destroys them one by one.

"Wrath of Sligoth" is a Coranna novella about a routine job on the rowing bench of a trading ship gone horribly wrong with the onset of a sudden storm, leaving the crew stranded on an uncharted island filled with mysterious horrors

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Wrath of Sligoth Part Three

 

 

  Part Three-- The dangers on both sea and land increase and, as the body count rises, hope fades and tempers fray.  Will the survivors manage to tenuously hold together to have some chance at escape?

"Wrath of Sligoth" is a Coranna novella about a routine job on the rowing bench of a trading ship gone horribly wrong with the onset of a sudden storm, leaving the crew stranded on an uncharted island filled with mysterious horrors

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Wrath of Sligoth Part 2

 

  Part Two-- Marooned in a mangrove swamp, Coranna and her crew-mates struggle to survive hunger, thirst, disease, and exposure, all the while haunted by the growing fear that they are being hunted by something more sinister than mundane predators. 

"Wrath of Sligoth" is a Coranna novella about a routine job on the rowing bench of a trading ship gone horribly wrong with the onset of a sudden storm, leaving the crew stranded on an uncharted island filled with mysterious horrors

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Wrath of Sligoth--Part One

  Part One-- A simple sail up the cost turns deadly when Coranna's ship is forced off course by inclement weather, bringing the crew face to face with a horror from the depths of their people's darkest nightmares from which only quick thinking and incredible luck can hope to save them.

"Wrath of Sligoth" is a Coranna novella about a routine job on the rowing bench of a trading ship gone horribly wrong with the onset of a sudden storm, leaving the crew stranded on an uncharted island filled with mysterious horrors

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Monthly Cycle

 

Monthly Cycle—A young woman is called on to help a close friend through a recent break up but, as she watches her friend struggle with the pull she still feels towards her potentially abusive boyfriend, she becomes aware that there is more going on than meets the eye and she and her friends have to work together to oppose the strange forces confronting them. 

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Deliverance from the Eye

When a master thief takes on a particularly deadly assignment, to retrieve a sacred relic from the temple of a religious sect whose dark practices are well known, he finds both horrors beyond his imagining and an unlikely “ally” who drags him into a far more dangerous mission that forces him to face the terrible secrets at the apex of the temple.

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