2017 Watty Winner "The Breakthroughs" Dee is an unemployed accountant managing an anxiety disorder and an eviction notice. She's also a powerful witch, but she doesn't know that yet. Until one fateful night, when her reality cracks wide open. Two witch hunters attack her, and she finally learns the truth. Well, part of it. As a descendent of Joan of Arc, her family is the "guardian of the ring." Uncovering this information only leaves her with more questions. Why did her coven banish her for three hundred years? Why is the ring so important? Why has her true identity been kept a secret from her? To put all the missing pieces together, she must go on a series of mind-altering quests. She'll risk life and limb to recover the facts traveling through time from the court of the Sun King Louis XIV of France to the Salem Witch Trials. Meanwhile, she searches Chicago's shadows to find and translate her family's grimoire pages, only to discover she's the guardian of King Solomon's ring and the power it holds to command good and evil. From the safety of reality to the underbelly of a secret world, she must take her rightful place to protect witches and humans from the ring. This is book one in a three-part trilogy. Delilah Recovered Delilah Forsaken Delilah Saved Delilah Recovered © Copyright 2016 Amelia Estelle Dellos

Life isn't going too great for high school student Richard Dawson. For some strange reason everyone hates him. His parents kicked him out of the house, everyone in his class bullies him, and even random people on the street spit at him. All of that changes when one day he receives a package from his parents, a golden bracer with an infinity insignia on it. After putting on this ancient heirloom, Richard is whisked away to a world where the impossible becomes possible; a world of magic. There Richard soon finds that he possess a rare and strange type of magic within him, a magic that can change the world. Synopsis written by Gastroboom.