Cara’s mother has disappeared. Her father isn’t talking about it. Her big brother Max is hiding behind his iPod, and her genius little brother Jackson is busy studying the creatures he collects from the beach. But when a watery specter begins to haunt the family’s Cape Cod home, Cara and her brothers realize that their scientist mother may not be who they thought she was—and that the world has much stranger, much older inhabitants than they had imagined. With help from Cara’s best friend Hayley, the three embark on a quest that will lead them from the Cape’s hidden, ancient places to a shipwreck at the bottom of the sea. They’re soon on the front lines of an ancient battle between good and evil, with the terrifying “pouring man” close on their heels. One chapter will be posted Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays until all 10 chapters are up. These will be followed by the second book in the series, The Shimmers in the Night. A Junior Library Guild Pick; Kirkus Reviews Best of 2011; Selected for the ABC Best Books for Children Catalog; Locus Notable Books.

I promise you, there is light in this dark world, if only you know where to look. My tale is one of magic and wonder, of evil and justice-of power and servitude. But it is also a story of sacrifice and suffering. There are great feats of courage and and malicious acts of deception. But there is also the quiet heroism of one good deed and the unpraised comfort of one loving heart. #1 in Adventure 04/09/2019 #1 in Adventure 01/29/2021 #2 in Action 05/15/2022 #2 in Action 6/21/2024

Highest Rank #1 Fantasy - Bridges are meant to be crossed, aren't they? And yet, Sofia doesn't know of anybody who has ever crossed into Nihon, the shrouded unknown half of the world where magic rules and reality is pliable. One day, Sofia meets Orì, a girl with light blue skin from the other side of the river, and the two girls strike up an unlikely friendship. But Sofia is supposed to follow her aunt and become the Guardian of the Bridge, doomed to spend her life on the lookout for the things that nobody seems to want to see... When Orì suddenly vanishes, will Sofia have the courage to finally cross the bridge to Nihon and go to her friend's rescue? (First Book of the Nihon Series)

By his blade, pointless. Yet, to sentenced the guilty... Whom Ghen, is cursed... His right arm, displaced, for the appearance of a black phantom limb, and, with his right eye, along gouged of sight; has had succumbed his daughter into a cold, and deep sleep of nonexistence... From it was along ten years bygone then it was during by an unexpected betrayal, under the orders of his own king, was it then that Ghen had then firmly believed of the legend. Of a legend known as... called the Host of the Curse. Where across out toward, for toward the Side East of the seas, midst the Lands of Outer, there hears of a being which is rumoured to exist upon in a mysterious island. Of an island, that is riddled in of ruin and of shadows... too a blight lives amongst the darkness. And too steeped in its shadows and of its desolate past, from lays the skull of an immortal yet diminished dragon named Panamex. Together, they then venture through the island's seemingly desolate world, in hopes of breaking the Curse, to awaken Ayu, that then would freed her, from within the binds of her sleep... For new bodies to have formed, the sun, lost in a shroud of the overcast world, and as the Curse, phases of an uncertainty. Discover an island, that is be plotted here of shadows and in darknesses, lost light, hidden foes, and a secret... that would plunge life within the depths of reality, and revelation... Readers: Book in progress, first two chapters now on demonstration, till the rest of the official story is to be completed. Enjoy the demo!