“The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.”
– Philip Roth
A DIFFERENT SHADE OF BEAUTIFUL
It’s bad enough that Maya Anderson has to change schools her senior year, let alone relocate to somewhere like Great Falls, Montana. It was a small, nothing, nowhere place with hardly any teenagers who looked like her—curly hair, caramel-toned skin, and golden eyes. Just when she feels like she can get through to graduation without becoming a total pariah; she meets Reid, leader of the Reicher’s, the school’s only gang known for their violence and racial hatred. But what Maya can’t figure out is what is more disturbing: his undeniable good looks, or the fact that she shares his last name.
When violent tensions rise at school, Maya becomes a target of the Reichers. After she has a frightening encounter with the gang, Reid becomes strangely protective of Maya, throwing unrest between him and his friends.
With feelings building between Reid and Maya, will they be able to deny all prejudice or will they succumb to the expectations of their peers?
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OF PEACE AND LILAC
Book Two of the Brotherhood Chronicles
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SIBYL DIVIDED
Growing up in the countryside of Old Asia, Sibyl has known nothing more than a peaceful childhood. But after tragedy befalls her family farm, she becomes the orphan child of the notorious gang The Emeici. Mentored in thieving and fighting, she quickly gains repute against all odds. When her child conscience can no longer see her living a life under the darkness, she proposes a separation from her crime family. Furious, her leader entices her into a battle for her freedom where winning means losing and losing means death. After she is ruined, Sibyl finds herself on the run with the crew of the Treadfire, a mysterious carrier ship bound for starspace, and aids them in carrying out secret missions from the BlackCom, the Black Market of social networks.
Life seems to be at ease for her again, as she has found a new family with the crew, and perhaps something more with the ship’s captain Arudan. But when one mission turns into a matter of love and death, Sibyl has no other choice than to go up against The Emeici, who had stolen everything from her.
The decision remains before her, will she choose the path of darkness or light…or stay divided between the two?
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THE PRINCE AND THE BLUE ROSE
Chateau du Haut-Koenigsbourg has been abandoned for over two hundred years. When at last a worthy suitor inclines to make it his home, the nearby town of Selestat is abuzz with curiosity over his identity. No one knows that the wealthy and handsome Prince Devereaux will be settling into the mountaintop castle.
At the behest of Devereaux’s footman, a well-known scientist Dr. Malbert Chantrey is called to the castle to tend to the recovering prince who has just returned from a revolutionary mission to Mars by the first steam-powered spacecraft and is seemingly ill from the perilous journey.
When a simple house call becomes an extended stay, Dr. Chantrey has no other choice but to return to his home lab to further research the illness that continues to claim more and more of Devereaux’s body. Fearing abandonment, the prince obligates Dr. Chantrey to give a ransom until he can return with a cure. But the thing that the scientist holds most dear is his only daughter Amabelle.
Will Dr. Chantrey find the illusive cure before his own daughter becomes Prince Devereaux’s prisoner forever?
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j. r. wallington 