BOOK 1 ELEMENTAL SERIES: TILL THE WATER DRIES OUT Everyone calls her the retard, the freak who set fire to a teacher's tie and then dyed her hair blue. She just calls herself impulsive. Victoria has lived her seventeen years of existence in a children's home, under the care of madam Minch, with no recollection of her parents, and no relations that she knows of. Now that high school is almost over, and college doesn't look too prospective, she wonders whether she's meant to spend her life at the home forever. But that is before she meets Professor Morgan Eldridge, of Eldridge College of the Magical Arts, who knew her mother, and believes that Tori is no ordinary girl. At the College, Tori hears whispers about a man everyone calls Montefiore, who viciously strips people of their Elemental core and steals their Magical power. What has he to do with Tori? And why is he so adamant to have her dead?

****Taken down for publication with Parliament House Press in 2019*** ****Bonus Story Available: The House of Seven Smiles***** ***Wattys 2015 Winner!!!*** Magic runs bone deep... In a world overrun by monsters, humans struggle for survival underground. Magic is feared and reviled, but rooted deep in the bloodlines of families, cropping up once a generation. These individuals are cast out, banished to the Above where humans are far, far down the food chain. When her younger brother is tainted by magic and forced to the surface, Azzy follows, determined to save the only family she has left, no matter what he becomes. ***Lovely Cover by @mulanjiang*** ***#2!! in Adventure 2/28/16*** ***#6!! in Fantasy 8/15/16***