Sophie Boyd has spent her whole life longing for an escape from her dreary childhood home and distant widower father. So when she receives a generous scholarship from the prestigious Bragdon Academy, she jumps at the opportunity to trade her working class upbringing for a boarding school education alongside Europe's r...
"Still the phoenix sits upon / The world in fearsome form, / With a crown upon her head / And the beauty of a storm." Newfound World, c. 1699: A phoenix nests on the roof of a house in a small colonial town, sending ripples throughout the community. Why is the phoenix here? Is she friend or foe? Heaven-sent or hell-b...
"What is important is to spread confusion not eliminate it." ▪ All her life growing up, Foxy has known she is different. She did not belong among the slum dwellers; walking the stinking path, scavenging from corpses and avoiding drunkards and muggers. She deserved to live clean, own fresh clothes, and eat warm food...
Pirates of the Caribbean comedy and adventure meets a naive narrator, werewolves, fish people, and more in this fantastical adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's timeless Treasure Island. After the murder of his mother, Walter Avery sets off on an expedition to a supposedly nonexistent island, led by the X-marked map...