Marti, Not of This World
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100 Word Flash Fiction of “Not of This World”
I made a choice.
56 days. I didn’t speak when my parents announced the plan to keep our family together.
45 days. I kept my mouth shut on the day we arrived at the cabin, our ark in a wicked world.
2 days. When Dallin came for me, I left my family, without speaking a word.
0 days. I did not believe the world would end. Mom and Dad ended my world when they took us away.
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Light streaks near the moon. My parents were wrong. It will pass us by.
My parents were right.
“This is the end.”

A Kiss and a Curse
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Golden curses Princess Aurora to die by the prick of a spindle on her sixteenth birthday. Juliana’s family and all spinners are exiled from the castle. Years later Juliana is summoned to serve Princess Aurora as a lady-in-waiting. She must leave Emmeric, her true love, and discover if she believes in the power of a kiss to overcome a 100 year curse.
A curse may kill a princess and destroy a kingdom.
A kiss may have the power to save a kingdom.
A Kiss and a Curse is a young adult novel for anyone who has lost love and believes in finding love again. Because…
Believing is what makes it real.

Banana Summer

Sights, sounds and solving problems all overwhelm Hannah, an eleven year-old girl from Idaho who is sent to Tucson for the summer to help her grandma who has multiple sclerosis.
In Tucson she joins the local swim team and makes new friends but is unable to contact her family. When her two best friends go out of town and her grandma suffers a relapse of MS, Hannah must use her sensitivities to solve her own problems and take care of her grandma.
Banana Summer is a middle grade novel of triumph in an overwhelming world.

Princesses, Truly

Princess Sass and Princess Frass lived the perfect princess life in a large castle in a small country until their father, the king, loses his job. They move to a small house in a large neighborhood called Castle Falls. Now Sass and Frass must discover if they are still princesses, truly.
In this princess picture book, Princesses Truly, royalty rules in jeans.

Robbers' Rhyme

With the magic of a nursery rhyme book, Jonathan and Beth discover a town ruled by Old King Cole and inhabited by nursery rhyme characters like Jack Be Nimble. Jonathan must learn what it takes to be a man before he can free himself and Beth from service to the merry king.
John Hammond leaves home to join Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch. He grows into manhood while assisting in robberies and hanging out with the outlaws until one night when he disappears.
Robbers' Rhyme is a middle grade dual-story  in which becoming a man has more to do with responsibility than revolvers.