The Witch of Agnesi (23 page)

The Ghost Appeaser . . .

Sixteen-year-old Emily Rundle’s curious nature causes her big prob-lems when she moves with her family to Florida. First of all, Emily’s diff erent. Really diff erent. Then the nightmares begin. The kind she can’t escape. The kind that make her sweat in terror, and are forcing her to solve a dangerous mystery.

The Knight in Jeans . . .

Michael Shipley just moved to town too, and realizes immediately Emily is trouble with a capital T. If he becomes involved with her his life will change forever. But premonitions that Emily’s life will be in danger force him to protect the girl who’s gift ed with extraordinary abilities like his.

The Danger . . .

Both Michael and Emily have painful histories, memories they’d rather forget. But faced with dangerous new challenges, they must overcome their pasts, threats at school, bullies in the fl esh, and ghostly apparitions bent on a deadly game of revenge. What began as a seemingly simple matt er of ghostly appeasement ends in a race against time as Michael and Emily fight the evil that threatens to overwhelm them.

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Paranormal

October 2006

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Mike Jaeger is a typical teenager. Well, sort of. He’s got some problems, mental problems specifically. Maybe a few more than most. But at least he’s human.

Or not.

At the ripe old age of sixteen, Mike begins to awaken to a new self. A self that remembers forty thousand years of war with humans.

Mike and his father are clones, as was every ances-tor back to the First Brother, the homonid who saw his Pack-sister, his future mate, raped and tortured by hu-mans. Sharing empathically in her fate, First Brother vows revenge on humans, and for that is cast out of the Pack. Every descendant since remembers the events vividly, for emotional memories are inscribed in their very DNA.

But Mike doesn’t know his hallucinations are memories, or that the shadows in his mind are Pack-brothers. And his father can’t bring himself to tell Mike what’s happening to him. Mike only knows he has one good, true friend, Dave.

And Dave, too, has a secret.

David Stanhope is an average twelve-year-old. His two best friends are geeks. Both his older sister and his dodge ball obsessed gym coach seem to despise him. And his parents are dragging him to a broken down old cabin in the woods for summer vacation.

But there’s a secret lurking in David’s attic. It takes David and his sister Amanda to the magical world of Abraxas where a centuries-old Black Magician is bent on destroy-ing them. Will David and Amanda be able to survive and return to their own world?

And why is the dragon afraid of a compass? Can a cen-taur wear a tool belt? What about the huge talking frogs, hungry vampires, a harpy who cheats at cards and Lucy the Moat Monster?

Maybe David isn’t so average after all.

ONCE UPON A TIME, there was a brave and noble unicorn whose name was Shabaz. So wondrous was this beast, so loyal and devoted to his mistress, that he gave up his horn to a powerful magic to save her and her infant daughter from the evil and terrible Dark Lord, a necromancer. He travels through time with his pre-cious cargo, and Birchspring, a warrior elf, to a place they believe will be safe.

TWO HUNDRED YEARS have passed. Tania, a servant lass, toils in the stable of the once mighty Castle Storm. An orphan, Tania has only her Grandfather Birchspring, and the tired old war horse she tends. Her life is hard and dull with drudgery.

Until Tania hears that a new Dark Lord has risen, and threatens the centuries of peace the countryside has enjoyed. It is not all she learns. “Grandfather” Birchspring can no longer contain the secret of Tania’s heritage. The tired old war horse can no longer main-tain his masquerade. Together, the three cannot sit idly by while the evil force that destroyed Tania’s mother returns to finish what he once started. Ill equipped, with only great heart and noble purpose, they ride to war. BUT IT IS MORE than battle they encounter. And it is only the force of love that will endure. Love, and the unicorn’s final, precious gift. . . .

Twins Carl and Meagan Cadet are the youngest herders in the Federation. Though they savor their privacy and the bond with their horses, they eventually join forces with the rowdy Jeff ries brothers. Just as they are learning to live and travel together, however, tragedy strikes.

No one has ever escaped the Raiders. But when Luke Jeff ries and Meagan, long ago orphaned by the cruel and bar-baric aliens, find themselves slaves on a mining planet, they know they must try. Yet to do so, they must first discover the key to unlock the mystery of the marvelous Horse Passages.

But Matt’s time with Noah is too short-lived. When the vengeful inn keeper guns Noah down, Matt commits murder as well. On the run now, and still seeking his sister, Matt heads into Can-tuc-kee and the Cherokee Indian Territory. His plan, as a long hunter, is to amass enough skins to buy some land and make a home for him and Mandy. Once again, however, Matt’s plans go awry.

Captured by Indians, the young man once again finds himself “bound”. He watches his best friend die a hideous death at the stake. And he learns a great deal more about survival. Escaping the Indians at last, he helps fellow Virginians settle the rugged, majestic land he has come to love. Ultimately, he learns what “home” really is . . . and where it resides.

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Rhiannon Godfrey is a teen with a twist. She’s psychic. Of course, that’s not too unusual seeing both her parents are Wiccan. They are also wicked, Rhiannon believes, when they move from trendy, super cool Vegas to Washington state just so she can have a “normal” high school experience. Hah.

Beyond mad, Rhiannon neglects to inform her parents the farmhouse they just purchased is haunted. To prove that she doesn’t belong in a “normal” high school but in Dr. Richard’s Institute of Parapsychology which she’s attended since first grade, she decides to send the ghost to the Other Side. Not that dispelling ghosts is her area of expertise, but really, how hard can it be? Well . . .

And then there’s Jared Roberts. Totally hot. For a cowboy, that is. Things seem to be looking up until his twin, the shallow and popular Janet, shows up. When she turns mean on Rhee’s new friends, it seems a little payback is in order. Things are getting a bit tricky balancing really scary ghosts, old secrets, serious trust issues, and her very first kiss. But she can handle it, can’t she? After all, she’s

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December 2006

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