Celebrating Independent Authors
SwanSong
by Lynne Cantwell
Category: YA Fantasy
This book is available from Amazon, Smashwords, and Barnes & Noble.
Based on an Irish tragedy: Eva plots to turn her four stepchildren into swans, but her spell goes awry and the children are only partially transformed. Neeve, Kennet, Corwin and Kyl must now spend 900 years coping with their transformed bodies in a world where magic is dying.
The Rebel Within
by Lance Erlick
Categories: science fiction, fantasy, action, adventure
Available on Amazon
Sixteen-year-old Annabelle Scott lives under the iron rule of a female-dominated régime that forces males to fight to the death to train the military elite. When Annabelle resists, her defiance endangers everyone she loves and thrusts her to a place of impossible life and death decisions.
Sand Dollar
by Sebastian Cole
Genre: Romance/Fantasy
Available from Amazon.
Robin’s love saves Noah by inspiring him to stand up to his powerful parents and reclaim his true self at all costs. But Robin harbors a devastating secret. Is it enough that two soul mates have found each other, or are the forces that would tear them apart too great?
Excerpt:
“Because for me, the sand dollar represents how fragile life really is. What was once so very precious, suddenly and without warning, disintegrated and vanished before my eyes. Seemingly solid and secure in our hands, the blessings we have in our lives today are easily shattered tomorrow.”
“The lesson learned: Never take your loved ones for granted. And if you’re ever lucky enough to find that one person in life who makes you love more than any other person could possibly make you love, you treat every day together as if it were your last. You cherish every moment.”
“However, for me, this lesson came too late, for she was already gone. And there was nothing I could do to put the pieces back together. I would spend my life wishing I could somehow travel back, back in time, to the day I first laid eyes on that precious beauty…”
What others say:
“So to the hopeless romantics out there I say, Highly Recommended – have at it, this is a must-read. To the snarling cynics like me who mentally have their arms akimbo and their eyebrow raised, I say pick up Sand Dollar: A Story of Undying Love and surprise yourself by discovering the romantic in you.” – Bookideas.com
Feast of Fates
by Christian A. Brown
Genres: fantasy, fiction, romance
Available at Amazon
Morigan, handmaiden to a kindly sorcerer, discovers long-buried powers she never knew herself to possess. Visions plague her, of a devastating madness descending on one of the Immortal rulers of the realm. Morigan’s powers hold the key to stopping a war if she can survive the plots against her.
Excerpt:
Throughout the day, in fleeting moments, she saw the king around; removed from his armor and dirty as a common man in wear and work. He was always fixing something: a person, a cart to be readied for the mortal migration, even the shoe on a child’s foot. No task was too small or too far beneath him, and while she respected this, she felt that much of it was penance. Whatever he spoke of back on the shore of Lake Tesh, these seasons and promises, the reason for his army marching south, it would end in tragedy. And she pitied him for it. She didn’t know why, and more than once she stopped to hold her tears as she thought of his sad, stormy beauty.
What others are saying:
“The love that Christian weaved into his magical and mystical tale will make you fall in love with love.” – Teresa Gomes, Amazon.