Kirjahaku

The Tymorean Trust - When peace rules Tymorea - Peace reigns in the universe.Chosen to be the Advocates of the mystical and incorporeal Guardians of Peace, twins Tymos and Kryslie must first learn to control and use the power rising in them - or it will destroy them.On Tymorea, only the ruling Triumvirate Governors are powerful enough to guide the strong-willed alien-bred twins until they have mastered their power.But even as Tymos and Kryslie are pushed ever harder to learn skills and wisdom, alien infiltrators are secretly finalising plans to undermine and destroy the ruling Royal elite, enslave the common people, and reform the planetary terrain to suit their own needs.To achieve this, the alien Warlords have already corrupted susceptible Royals, and learnt that Tymos and Kryslie are two of three who are destined to protect the Tymorean Trust and thus thwart their plans.However, Tymos and Kryslie must leave the protected Royal Estate to begin to learn of their other gifts and to come to understand their destiny, even though this will place them in deadly peril.

Sixteen-year-old Jai Cassidy thought she was finally free of her family until she discovers her other relatives ...the ones that aren't human.The Atapi, a warrior alien race led by a depraved sorcerer, have masqueraded as humans for over twenty years. When Jai accidentally interferes with their barbaric activities, she becomes a target for their retribution. Using her natural perversity and cunning to escape them, she catapults herself into the middle of a deadly feud between two alien races.The Kumatan intend to eradicate the Atapi from Earth. They take Jai to their hidden village, where despite the prejudice of the Kumatan and the provocation of the captured Atapi slaves, Jai tries to maintain her human bred values.As Jai learns more about herself and her unknown biological mother, she discovers that she has inherited the talent for sorcery. Before she can even imagine what that means and with only the barest understanding of her own potential, Jai must prevail against the Sorcerer, and the Kumatan who want to neutralize her power.A novel inspired by the writings of Mercedes Lackey and Tamora Pierce.

The peace of the Guardian Planet, Tymorea, is in deadly peril. War there will create ripples of unrest and destruction throughout the settled universe. Tymos and Kryslie, still adolescents, have barely mastered their power and Llaimos is still less than a year old, but they are the three chosen to be Advocates of the mystical Guardians of Peace, to safeguard the Tymorean Trust.The Aeronites, already infiltrating Tymorea, will soon we ready to declare open warfare and begin reforming the planet's surface. With the Tymorean population withdrawing to protected places, Tymos and Kryslie are the only ones able to win back the loyalty of the hostile mutant tribes and deny the aliens their help. Only they can bring the wild creatures to the protected forests, accelerate the harvests and protect the wide-open growing areas. Through this, they must ensure the safety of Llaimos as he grows, and evade the warrior assassins sent to neutralise them.After the Aeronites attack, they have only an illusion of victory when a second, even deadlier enemy reveal themselves. The Ciriot, a race of pirates and torturers, used the Aeronites to get to the treasures and knowledge of the legendary Guardian Planet. The Guardian's Advocates must learn to wield the power of their whole planet, to fight them, to return peace to Tymorea, and to reverse lethal damage done to their world.

Edwina is a ghost with a mission - to find out why she died. Only to do so, she must first help another girl.

Valerie has become known as "The Graffiti Girl" but she is more than just a street artist. She sees and paints life her way.When Valerie is blinded by an explosion, she must learn to paint and see again.

Three of these stories are based on real creatures I have known, but their names have been changed to protect the not so innocent. The incidents are real, the events happened, but the telling is tempered by nostalgia and the POV - that's where the fantasy comes in.Spend some moments as a mouse, a possum, a cat and a rabbit.

Book OneProtecting a PrinceJanna had put aside her fledgling feelings for Crown Prince Ali of Jakhabad until he came to America to find her.By then, though, it was too late to hope for a happy ever after with him. His Uncle, Prince Jabir, a terrorist leader and the usurper of the Crown of Jakhabad, ensured she had been deported from that country with no shred of a reputation left.But the feelings were still there, and while openly helping him would make them both targets, as a woman with no reputation, she might just save him from his uncle's assassins. Book TwoThrust into TreasonFormer cyber-criminal and computer genius, Erin Mason, is the perfect person to help find out who was selling tech secrets on the black market. With the control system for a top-secret new spy satellite as bait, Erin's power regulator sub-routine is the keystone of the program.When a powerful foreign buyer grows impatient for the completed program, Erin ends up as part of the merchandise. It is up to her to use her wits and computer skills to prevent a terrifying misuse of the stolen program when a misstep could lead to death.Book ThreeDeposing a DictatorWhen the leader of the terrorist Cobra Sect gains control of stolen software capable of high-jacking a new spy satellite, the potential to use it to for targeting missile strikes is extreme. With the whole world at risk, Jim Phillips and his covert mission team are challenged to neutralise the threat. However, for team member Wanda Martin, the mission is personal. Both her cousin and a friend are being kept in the palace usurped by the terrorist leader. To depose the dictator, the team risk exposure at every step as they use their target's weakness to force him to make critical mistakes.

When US Trade Consul, Allan Wexford, and his daughter go missing, Wanda Martin flies to Austria to find them. Operating on her own, using old and new skills, she begins to unobtrusively unravel Wexford's movements. However, when she unintentionally steals a pouch of valuable diamonds, trouble begins to follow her. She becomes a person of interest to both the police and a group of violent criminals, and must walk a fine line to remain unidentified and out of custody so she can find the missing ones. In spite of all her skill, she becomes entangled in a web of twisted lies and she is set up to take the fall for a heinous crime.

On remand for murders she didn't commit and a robbery she never intended to do, Wanda Martin tries to keep from thinking of the inevitable outcome. Yet it is soon apparent that the Russian crime family, whose plans she wrecked, want revenge, and even in prison she isn't safe.A stranger, claiming to be her grandfather, visits. He wants to control her, stop her speaking of what she knew. That wasn't going to happen.He could get her out of prison, and the murder charges dropped. That only proved that he and The Family had set her up. When he implied her mother was still alive, possibly in the same prison, he'd gone too far. She was going to find her, even if it jeopardised the efforts of her friends to help her. Even if the whole darn Family came after her. Even if she was locked up for life.

At nearly 18, Andy was almost free of her outwardly honest and eminently suitable guardian. Andy knew him better. Her brother Martin was a crook, but proving it? She didn't dare.After a series of events put her in trouble, Andy runs away, but Martin was not about to let her out of his control. He wanted her to have no reputation left, and if she wouldn't do as he wanted, locked up rather than free. He needed money. Needed her inheritance. Once he had that, he wouldn't care what happened to her. Would not caring about Martin make Andy safer when his enemies find her?

Abandoned by her relatives on the brink of the summer holidays, orphan Brenda Jacobs finds herself travelling to a strange town to stay with strangers.The thought that it might prove to be a more enjoyable time than she expected, is confused by finding the last person she wanted to see, travelling on the same train. And again when he offers to let her join with his friends for the summer. But people she's never met start to cause her trouble, and the machinations of her relatives make her future seem bleak. Just when her spirits are lowest, an unexpected discovery changes her future completely.

Imperative instinct drives Maeven from the protection of the dragon's cave and into the clutches of the evil demon, Ciabolo. Her manipulative words distract him from his original purpose, but not from his intense desire for revenge. He takes her back to the King's citadel in Vatarik where the King basks in the possibilities of having a Princess of Thulor in his control. Seeing no way to escape, her innate stubbornness and desire to thwart them grows. Her quick tongue and thief skills, are potent weapons. Knowing her father must counter their attempts to infiltrate his kingdom, and the dragon mage is still growing into her power, Maeven distracts them on their own ground, ferrets out their secrets and hopes for help.Being pregnant with the King's heirs, provides some protection but as the time of the birth draws near, her time is running out. If they have no further use for her, all she learnt would be wasted. Will help arrive in time, or will her enemies win after all? Maeven - Dragon Agent continues the epic adventure begun in Maeven: Dragon Thief and shows how power over an enemy can be achieved by being true to one's nature.

Even before the war on Tymorea, the Elders foresaw that Great Ones Tymos and Kryslie would have an imperative mission on Earth.But as the Tymoreans prepare to build an Earthbase to support them, they discover that specifications for two vital protective shields are missing.Tymos and Kryslie must find the work of a missing Tymorean scientist and build the generator before the base is found. Then, as the missionaries are transported to Earth, the Guardians of Peace step in and send Tymos and Kryslie back in time.

On the eve of their graduation from the prestigious WSRA Washington University, Tymos and Kryslie Ward deliberately disappear.The elderly coordinator of the Tymorean missionary descendants has had a death vision foretelling that the new missionaries will be attacked and be killed. It was time for the true work of the Tymorean Great Ones to begin. After joining with the missionary descendants, Tymos and Kryslie realise that the leader of the Imperium, Abdul bin Halil, is well advanced in his plans to use technology to undermine the United World Nations. The Great Ones must protect the Tymorean missionaries and keep the Earthbase from discovery and destruction, while working to prevent a deadly war and the ascension of bin Halil as a despotic world leader.

Seventeen-year-old Jai Cassidy is a stranger to Korvu, but she inherited her mother's mission to find a way to revitalize the non-humanoid Atapi tribes. As a Human-Atapi hybrid, and a sorceress, she is vehemently disliked by both the Atapi sorcerers who lead the tribes and the humanoid rulers of Korvu.Regardless of the opposition, Jai is still determined to protect and nurture the Atapi. However, her task is complicated by the treacherous activities of a group of alien engineers, who are inciting insurrection and harsh reprisals.As an outsider, Jai can see the truth of the conflict. Using sorcery and her native human cunning, she must convince the fiercely independent sorcerers to work with their humanoid enemies and the powerful Galactic Enforcers - and then convince Korvu's rulers to stop persecuting the Atapi, and allow them to grow stronger and regain their rightful place as defenders of Korvu. Suspenseful and fast moving, Atapi Sorceress captures the essence of conflicting alien societies and the power of being true to one's nature.