Shadow Journey

Grace Irese, sixteen-year-old desert warrior with a chip on her shoulder, is gifted in ways she does not yet realize. Duncan Oaks, teenage member of the Grif-Drif Con-Artist Guild, is a boy who has made one bad choice too many. When they are both remanded to an off-world juvenile facility with lifetime sentences. Grace and Duncan plot an escape into the horrific environment beyond in order to save Duncan's sister from Grace's war-torn world. Will they and their unlikely companions survive unscathed or find themselves forever altered? Set in dark alien words and told in the first person with three separate voices, The Shadows We Make is a young adult tale filled with bravery, magic and the binding power of friendship.

Shadow Journey Book Two - The Thrice-Gifted Child Grace Irese, sixteen-year-old desert warrior, Duncan Oaks, teenage con-artist, along with a young mystic and a doctor's thieving son, have survived an escape from the juvenile facility on the prison planet, Emerald, against impossible odds, forming profound and unexpected friendships in the process. After rescuing Duncan's extraordinarily gifted sister from the tyrannical warlord who had condemned Grace and Duncan to their lifelong sentences, they find neither survival nor friendship makes them immune to the new dangers facing them in The Wilds. A province devastated by an ancient war where the inhabitants are reputed to be fierce, violent and intolerant, Grace nevertheless believes the answers she desperately needs can be found there. The others are hoping only for a place to rest and regroup, safe from the violent man and his soldiers who are hunting them down. But as grandmother-quoting Duncan likes to say, "out of the frying pan, into the fire"-an adage that will prove more prophetic than any of them realize. Follow the further adventures of the troubled, gifted teens from The Shadows We Make in this, the exciting and highly anticipated second book in the dystopian young adult Shadow Journey series.

The Sleeping Myth, Book Three in the young adult sci-fi/fantasy Shadow Journey series, pushes the friends to new limits and takes them into a snowbound realm of old magic and ancient science, into places darker and more exciting than ever. Following their escape from captivity and mayhem, Grace, Duncan, his sister Resa, Mika and Carina head due west through the mountains, "into the setting sun"-the only directions provided to the legendary destination known as the Cavern of Sleeping Myth. With their new companions, they seek the far away land on a promise they will finally find answers to the prophecy regarding three of them, the warrior, the witch, and the thrice-gifted child. However, nothing comes easy and there is always a price to pay. Injury, heartache, betrayal hound them as surely as do the warriors of their enemies who seek what they are, what they possess, for their own purposes. The Sleeping Myth is not quite what they have been assured, either, and might very well separate the closely bound friends forever.