Dungeon Duty - Current WIP
Princess Jessamine really doesn't want to marry the boring and overly-polite prince her parents have picked out for her. After all, Prince Alec actually apologized for getting in her way when she pushed him into the fountain. Who does that? So she does the only thing she can think of – she enlists the services of a powerful sorceress to make the prince go away.
Except the spell doesn't exactly go the way Jessa had hoped. Instead of getting rid of the prince, the sorceress gets rid of her. Now Jessa’s once-loyal subjects think the sorceress is the real princess and Jessa's reduced to nothing more than a lowly serving maid.
That's the bad news.
The good news is that there's a prophesy saying the sorceress can be defeated.
Jessa just has to find a few random ingredients for a spell and the one person who possesses enough magic to defeat the sorceress. But that person doesn't want to be found. With the clock ticking down, the ingredients prove to be particularly tricky, especially since Jessa somehow needs to collect dragon tears – of course, whoever made that dim-witted prophesy forgot that dragons don’t even exist.
Alec is willing to lend Jessa a hand (and he's got the strong shoulders to match), but Jessa doesn’t have a whole lot of time before the sorceress can put her evil plan into action. Whatever that is. What she does know is that her kingdom, and her future with *gasp* Alec of all people, is at stake, and no one, not even a psychotic sorceress who wants her dead is going to stand in her way.
Princess Jessamine really doesn't want to marry the boring and overly-polite prince her parents have picked out for her. After all, Prince Alec actually apologized for getting in her way when she pushed him into the fountain. Who does that? So she does the only thing she can think of – she enlists the services of a powerful sorceress to make the prince go away.
Except the spell doesn't exactly go the way Jessa had hoped. Instead of getting rid of the prince, the sorceress gets rid of her. Now Jessa’s once-loyal subjects think the sorceress is the real princess and Jessa's reduced to nothing more than a lowly serving maid.
That's the bad news.
The good news is that there's a prophesy saying the sorceress can be defeated.
Jessa just has to find a few random ingredients for a spell and the one person who possesses enough magic to defeat the sorceress. But that person doesn't want to be found. With the clock ticking down, the ingredients prove to be particularly tricky, especially since Jessa somehow needs to collect dragon tears – of course, whoever made that dim-witted prophesy forgot that dragons don’t even exist.
Alec is willing to lend Jessa a hand (and he's got the strong shoulders to match), but Jessa doesn’t have a whole lot of time before the sorceress can put her evil plan into action. Whatever that is. What she does know is that her kingdom, and her future with *gasp* Alec of all people, is at stake, and no one, not even a psychotic sorceress who wants her dead is going to stand in her way.
Past Projects
Dragon Secrets - Chapter Book In a kingdom of animals who have tried and failed, one horse named Whitney is determined to figure out the dragons' secret. Despite lacking opposable thumbs—not to mention her parents’ permission—she embarks on her dangerous quest, if only to escape her horrible bathing schedule. After she conquers Scorched Mountain (and gets a buzz-cut for her trouble), she discovers that dragons don't breathe fire, but bubbles, rainbows, glitter and all things un-dragon-like. They may seem harmless, but they still have dragon-sharp claws and teeth, and when an old blind dragon stumbles over the peeping horse, the dragons launch a full-scale attack against Whitney so she can't divulge their secret. After all, that would be embarrassing. In order to escape, Whitney must rely on an unlikely friendship with a baby dragon who insists on calling her "Horace" and has more guts than is probably healthy. Whitney barely makes it home with her hide still intact, but now must find a way to stop the whole animal kingdom from going to war—before her parents ground her for eternity. | Second Skin - YA Sixteen year old Gemma is an outcast to society--she just doesn't understand why her shape-shifting ability makes her a bad person, er, animal. When her best friend (and maybe more), is taken for "rehabilitation," Gemma must decide where she belongs in society, and what she's willing to sacrifice for it. Starting a revolution was something that happened by accident. But now Gemma has to think fast in order to outfox the government officials and escape with her tail - and the hides of the others like herself - still attached. | The Secret of Mulberry Woods - YA Jared meets the girl of his dreams, but there's something about her story that doesn't add up. Karya is wild, fiery and much too impatient and impulsive for her own good. Against her father's will, she becomes involved with Jared, telling him her secrets and revealing the hidden history of her people. When she goes inexplicably missing, it is up to Jared to find out what evil is lurking behind the complacent face of the nearby forest. But the forest does not give up its secrets easily, and Jared soon discovers he is in over his head. After learning of his own magic, and eventually learning to control it, Jared finally has things figured out, but that knowledge just might destroy him as he tries to save Karya's life. |
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