Changing Tides: Unexpected Perils (Part 1)
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In the quiet, worn halls of the Pembridge Estate for Lost Children, young Miadi, a reclusive wildorn, finds herself among a group of orphans, each with their own pasts and dreams. There's Magnus, a towering half-giant with a gentle heart, and Ignatia, a blazekin struggling to control her fiery powers. Together, they learn that life here depends on both friendship and caution. Under the watchful but caring eye of Miss Guinevere, they tackle daily routines and strict rules, each clinging to the hope of finding a real home someday.
Yet as strange happenings and whispers begin to unsettle the children, they can't help but wonder if something more is at play beneath the surface of the orphanage. And when their time to leave arrives, what waits for them? Peace, adventure-or something unexpected?
Changing Tides is a story of friendship and courage, set against a quiet mystery, exploring the strength it takes to face the unknown-and the bonds that can make even the loneliest places feel like home.
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"His stare promised death. It was a promise that he'd made many years ago, and now he was back to follow through with it at last." Willa and her friends are enjoying their night partying to celebrate her twenty-first birthday, when their lives are abruptly upended and thrown into disarray as they're cast from the human world they know so well. They find themselves in Faerie, a land fraught with perils and magic and a myriad of unworldly creatures, both good and bad. Willa is confronted by her past and who she once was when she comes face to face with an old foe she thought she would never see again, and her friends must quickly adjust to this strange, new land and survive the hardships and trials that are thrown their way. Together they must travel through the fae kingdoms, each more treacherous than the last, and restore balance to the world Willa had once called home. But there are forces of malevolence at work, the kind of evil that thrives off misery and only exists to bring chaos to Faerie and all it's inhabitants, and they will do everything in their power to stop Willa and her friends from fulfilling their destinies.
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