Clara and the Mermaids • Book 3 of The Sandy Hunter Saga
by J.D. Newman Part 3 of the Sandy Hunter Saga Twelve-year-old Clara doesn’t know what she wants to be, but she knows doesn’t want to be a miniature version of her mother, Sandy Hunter Gentry. Clara imitates those around her, including a shy girl named Paisley, and her pretending leads her into the world of drama and theatre. She adapts and performs her own version of Hans Cristian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid and stage manages her elementary school production of Disney’s musical version. Clara comprehends how the mermaid lost her voice by changing herself for others and how she found peace by being true to herself and her instincts. This third story in the Sandy Hunter Saga, presented through letters, emails, and text messages and written to be presented in a Zoom format, takes place 37 years after Sandy...
Read MoreSandy and the Dance of Faith • Book 2 of the Sandy Hunter Saga
by J.D. Newman Sandy Hunter’s entrance essay has earned her admission to Memorial Catholic School. However, as she begins her seventh grade year, Sandy feels intimidated by the other students who all believe strongly in something. Sandy struggles to live up to the declaration she made in her entrance essay that she exercises her faith through dance. She continues to explore the Catholic, Mormon, and Unitarian faiths practiced by her great aunts. Sandy strives to connect with her older sister Roxie who has always walked in their father’s footsteps but is beginning to define her own path. As Sandy finds her place in the realm of ballet and the world of faith, she discovers her potential as a dancer and a believer. This second book in the Sandy Hunter Saga follows the spirited twelve-year-old through the autumn after the...
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Daniel Light and the Children of the Flaming Sword — Book 6
by C. Michael Perry ABOUT BOOK SIX: DANIEL LIGHT AND THE CHILDREN OF THE FLAMING SWORD What if you could control time? What if you only thought you could control time? The Prophecy continues to guide and influence the second generation as two children, human youths of unique abilities, are called on to infiltrate a part of the kingdom that no Enchanter or any other magical being has been able to penetrate. Hugh and Gillian are thrown together, not unwillingly for they have liked each other since they were very young, to succeed where no human or Enchanter has been able to. Their human journey is a truly magical one as they begin to break the barriers of the once impenetrable Forest of Bala, where Darkness is Queen. True to the Realms of the Crystal Orb, other ancient forces...
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The Night Shift — Teen Paranormal Fiction
A novel of changes by C. Michael Perry That shift when the moon is full; that shift of thought when the blood stops flowing and a new creature is born; that six to eight hour shift that all teenagers have to work, at some time or other, at some burger place, or grocery store or movie theatre. The Night Shift explores all the shifts that are incorporated into our lives — or into our non-life, in this particular case. The living un-dead can be a source of great fear, great mystery and great misunderstanding. And great stories. Trenton, our 113 year old teenager is struggling with the shifts in his un-life. Human friends, the lack of a significant other, the strange feelings and sensations that plague him as he finally settles in to ‘existing’ among humans in Chicago. Then...
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Daniel Light and the Child of Promise — Book 4
by C. Michael Perry What would you be willing to do to protect those you love? ABOUT BOOK FOUR: To come at a time of greatest need, this Child Of Promise, is born and begins to grow. A favored child in every way, as most promised children are, he is nurtured by loving royal parents, grandparents and a peculiarly powerful uncle, Daniel Gregoryson — the Miracle of Mirador. The Child of Promise and The Prophecy (Daniel) continue to learn and grow and fulfill their individual prophecies in ways that are surprisingly linked together. The Darkness is alive. It seems impossible to just snuff it out. Now a new threat arises; a threat to the Realms, to the Prophecy, and to the Child of Promise. What sacrifice will be required at their hands to usher in yet another victory? Is...
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Daniel Light and the Circle of Light — Book 3
by C. Michael Perry What if the enemy within turned out to be even more dangerous than the enemy without? ABOUT THE BOOK: The true nature and source of the Darkness that threatens all is revealed in its many-faceted horror to Daniel as he endeavors to build his Circle Of Light; his army of Young Enchanters. As they search out the long forgotten and almost discarded places of their continent, they find hatreds, uncertainties and distrust about the Realms and those who lead them. Daniel and his associates strike out into deep and Dark adventures on their Quest to form The Circle of Light. The Dark, however, has different ideas on what ruling over others means, and a representative council is not part of its totalitarian plans. In addition to fending off attacks by separated but still united factions...
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Wembley Tewkes: Living From Edge To Edge
COMING SOON ABOUT BOOK TWO: What if the dreams and fantasies, hopes and fears of your life became real? When you find out that you can shoot lightning from your fingers, vanish things with a wave of your hand, travel through time and space at will, without any device or incantation, you just might be Wembley Tewkes. Power is growing in Wembley, and in his closest friends and family. But power for what? Where does it lead? As Wembley nears his 16th birthday everything is getting more weird than it ever was, and what was formerly unimaginable is becoming a daily, even hourly occurrence. Somehow, some way, Wembley is tied to 6th Century Britain. The people and visions and DreamTravels that have come into his life all lead him to that era. He is not alone! His friends and...
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