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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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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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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