Legea Stories

There is so very much to Legea. This is a book for all the extras that belong nowhere: music, maps, poems, random lore, fun facts, the very first draft of "The Journey"... written four years ago by a thirteen-year-old in a ring-bound notebook with a snake on the cover...

Random book. You know those random books people have? Tags. Art. Announcements. Blog-ish sort of things. Random facts about their characters. Tags. Tags. More tags. Yeah... that's pretty much what this is. I know, I know, you want to read it. They all do. Go ahead, just don't say I didn't warn you.

EXCERPT ONLY How do you shoulder responsibility... when responsibility is everything you ever feared? Fred Thorne takes his duty seriously. When a stove fire destroys his home, plunging livelihood and family into chaos, he sets out to lead his younger sisters to a safe haven. But the terrifying burden of protector weighs on him, and he waits eagerly for the moment to pass it on. If only it were so easy. Misfortunes and setbacks multiply. Peril stalks even the safest roads. And as a wedge of resentment deepens between the siblings, Fred is losing his own self under a relentless spiral of guilt. Where will the Thornes find their place of safety? More importantly, can their fractured relationships weather the intervening storms? ORIGINALLY POSTED ON WATTPAD, 2016-2018. I wouldn't be anywhere without you amazing fam.

Because I'm the worst at coming up with inventive titles... New random book. Mostly the same stuff. I'm a hectically busy girl adjusting to the perks of adulthood (buying your own personal block of cheese at the store, amirite?) and enthusing over the fact that I'm going to be a published author next year (I still can't believe it!). Pianist, farm hand, Sunday School teacher, pastor's kid, oldest sibling. Peek inside for tags, blog-ish things, the occasional fangirl rant or life update, and a lot of obsessing over my fantasy world. * December 2022 changed cover in the hopes that random creep accounts will stop adding it to their reading lists*

EXCERPT ONLY /2nd edition releasing to bookstores June 2025/ A disfigured corpse. The young man who found it. And the lawman resolved to clear up the matter at all costs. Mordred Kenhelm's survivalist existence has acquired a measure of stability-even peace. He is ready to put down roots... until warnings from the past start rearing ugly heads, that is. He sets out to extinguish old ghosts, but a simple trip downriver threatens to unearth far more than it conceals. Alone with his secrets, he faces a trial of conflict, honor, and humiliation. Inspector Wilhelm Dickson has never given up on a mission. A zealous search for truth and reparation leads him into a net of affairs much bigger than himself, and one he might not escape with both life and reputation intact. After all, it helps to at least know what you're chasing. Worst of all, the arrogant young man who happens to be the key to everything is more closemouthed than a clam at low tide. Truth will out. But even then, it may be a long while before anyone sees the end of the road.

EXCERPT ONLY With Marjorie's wedding, the Thornes are happily settled in the welcoming village of Ceristen. Fred has steady employment, and even Gwenda is making friends. Other new arrivals, however, are finding it harder to adjust . . . Mordred Kenhelm has spent his eighteen years surviving. Having shepherded his sister and brother to the distant promise of Orden, what happens when reality sets in? Can their family bond weather old traumas, social condescension, and a tragic accident? The Village uses the setting of a small-town drama against the backdrop of a fantasy world to explore the deepest, ugliest, and most beautiful facets of human nature. What does it mean to love your neighbor? Look for the answer in The Village.

EXCERPT ONLY Orden's kings have ruled her in peace for upwards of a hundred years. She is rich, powerful, holding influence in the high places of the world. But skirmishes will happen, and peace makes men lax, and the army grows weak... Inspector Dickson committed a grave error, one that he can never undo, one that brought horrific pain and torment on two men. In a way it was not his fault - was it his fault? While one of them has forgiven him, the other has not forgotten, and will not forgive... The small hamlet called Ceristen is made of those who have weathered many of the gales of life. But only one of them has ever known war... The fourth book in the Ceristen series. Cover by @LuckyPlum, and what an amazing job she's done on the entire series!!!