This book blends the magic of a Fairytale with historical fiction. Although it is set in the years leading up to the American Revolution, it has an evil wizard, a princess, and other worldly weapons. It is a book that can be enjoyed by the whole family, yet has hidden meanings that an adult will find stimulating.

Ariel Wilson, "Jack" to her friends, has a mother determined to make her a superstar. During the school year, she is in lessons, classes, and sports, but she never wins...at least at anything her mom cares about. During the summer, Ariel becomes "Little Wolf," living with her father just as Native Americans did centuries ago. Then Ariel gets kidnapped by a group of men who want to blackmail her mother. These men are professional kidnappers who have abducted dangerous men before, so they're not worried about some rich teenage girl. They should be, though, because they haven't kidnapped a...

The Princess of Ashes series ties into Adrian Essigmann's C-3 series. This book picks up after the events of "Heavy Opposition" and follows Princess Zoe First who was taken captive by the dark. Held captive by a powerful vampire without any hope of rescue from her kingdom, Zoe struggles to survive. Favorite C-3 Saga characters such as Lewis and Susan Crimlin, Kenton Streck, Bill and Lawrence, and King Frost help Zoe as she journeys from a great darkness toward the LIGHT. Yet when she finally walks in the LIGHT again, can Zoe cope in a world where she is an orphan and her kingdom is reduced to...

A track coach takes a look of the effect coming school transgender policies will have on girls sports. Those policy changes include boys in the girls locker rooms and boys on girls athletic teams due to a walk into the guidance office and a declaration of the new gender. Human dignity and suicide is often cited as a defense of such policies using Title IX as the legal impetus behind it. Yet the same officials hell-bent on creating this brave new world in high school athletics and life has not considered the cost to young women. What if that same policy meant to make a few feel better ends up...