Serollyn has always been exceptionally devoted to the Life-Lenders, supernatural beings who grant to each member of her tribe as that person comes of age a life-guide to protect and guide the person through the rest of his or her life. She is eager to undergo the ritual that will bring her life-guide and make her an adult in the eyes of the clan. With absolute faith she goes through the ritual that should bring her life-guide, an animal spirit that she alone can see and hear and communicate with. When no life-guide appears, she is devastated. How has she failed the Life Lenders, that they...
Serollyn has always been exceptionally devoted to the Life-Lenders, supernatural beings who grant to each member of her tribe as that person comes of ...
Thirteen-year-old Bryte, poor and homeless, ekes out an existence in the flats surrounding the lowest tier of the seven-tiered city of Tirat. Resourceful and courageous, she is determined to find a way to live on Tirbat's fifth tier, home of the wealthy father who rejected her mother and refuses to acknowledge her. Her ascent begins when she offers to serve as a guide for a young man and woman just arrived in Tirbat. Magically gifted, they open up to her an exciting but dangerous new world. The young man falls under the spell of the evil Lord Inver, whom he is forced to obey even to...
Thirteen-year-old Bryte, poor and homeless, ekes out an existence in the flats surrounding the lowest tier of the seven-tiered city of Tirat. Resource...
Marta and Ed Robbins, long childless, are thrilled when their friend Kyla Cren writes to tell them of an orphaned infant in need of parents. They travel to the city of Port-of-Lords where Kyla leads the Gifted Community. That community gathers to celebrate the baby's Naming-Day, a joyous occasion that ends in disaster when an old enemy kidnaps and threatens to kill the child. Marta, Ed, Kyla, and Veronica Crowell, Kyla's fourteen-year-old ward, have all encountered Jerome Esterville previously and know how dangerous a foe he is. Still, although the Community members have differing powers and...
Marta and Ed Robbins, long childless, are thrilled when their friend Kyla Cren writes to tell them of an orphaned infant in need of parents. They trav...
Judy Cameron adores her grandfather, but there's a problem. Grandy loves to invent things, and his inventions rarely turn out well. Instead, they always seem to make a terrible mess throughout the house. For that reason, Judy's mom does not welcome Grandy's visits. Judy has been promised any one thing she wants (within reason, of course) if she earns straight As on her next report card. She does, and furthermore her birthday is coming very soon. How can her parents deny her wish-a visit from Grandy-even if he brings along another weird and wacky invention?
Judy Cameron adores her grandfather, but there's a problem. Grandy loves to invent things, and his inventions rarely turn out well. Instead, they alwa...
