Holly Barbo

" feel] like an action adventure movie "Buy this fantastic tale now A Dystopian Urban Fantasy The resistance needed an opportunity. The hurricane provided the distraction they hoped for. With very little time and a need for total secrecy, he can't help the woman in the cage... until he learns who she is. Can they escape in the allotted time?Desperate times have come to Emma Maya Ando's country. A totalitarian regime with no tolerance for deviation has marginalized thousands. Neither physical exceptionality nor freedom of thought has a place. All is conformity. But Maya doesn't conform, and time is running out on her ability to conceal her condition. Can Maya find a cure before she is swept up in a purge... or will she take her secret to the grave?

Buy this fantastic tale now A Dystopian Urban Fantasy The resistance needed an opportunity. The hurricane provided the distraction they hoped for. With very little time and a need for total secrecy, he can't help the woman in the cage... until he learns who she is. Can they escape in the allotted time? Desperate times have come to Emma Maya Ando's country. A totalitarian regime with no tolerance for deviation has marginalized thousands. Neither physical exceptionality nor freedom of thought has a place. All is conformity. But Maya doesn't conform, and time is running out on her ability to conceal her condition. Can Maya find a cure before she is swept up in a purge... or will she take her secret to the grave?

Mari is hired to research a mummified bog-man found in an ancient peat field, unaware a 700 year old grudge is still alive.

A contemporary suspense steeped in historyWith dwindling time, Leone uses the last of her strength to share important family history with her only living relative: her grandson David. Despite her final request to not sell the family heirlooms, David and Anne look into it because of their desperate need for money. But the pieces have secrets and the young couple finds themselves in unexpected danger.

When Willum, an apprentice book maker, has a nasty fall, he loses all of his memories...including the strictures concerning protective magic for the exquisite miniature dragons called Dragilios. Not knowing he is breaking the magic law, and sending the little Dragil, Malle, into deadly peril, he draws the friendly, little dragil. The moment the picture is finished the protective spell shatters. Her anguished cry as she disappears restores his memory.Devastated at what he has done and wanting to right the wrong or die trying, Willum undertakes a dangerous quest into the malignant world of the giant leather-winged dragons. Can he find her in time before she is ripped apart and eaten? If he stays too long in that lethal land, he becomes stone.The hourglass sands are slipping away toward the doom of the boy and the fragile little dragil. Can he save them both?

"Captivating look at the future" "Another must read from Holly Barbo."ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Stories 2016 Semi-FinalistLife is tough for Zoe in her changing world. As a small child, her voice can never be heard and she may as well be invisible. Except as a slave.The Tin of Honey is a dystopian tale which was originally published in The Writers' Stuff: A Multi-Genre Anthology, and later in Holly's own short story collection, Tendrils. The story has been expanded to a length suitable for a Quick Read book. A Quick Read book is a short story available as a single small book. In both ebook and paper format, it is a perfect small gift or for escaping to another place and reality when you only have a tiny block of spare time.

Stories come from any number of places. One could start from a memory, a photo in a magazine or from pondering a news item and wondering, "What if?"This collection arose from that sort of random stimuli. Some are pure imagination of science fiction or fantasy. Others, though, developed from random historical facts or the disturbing news stories of war-torn regions.This is a collection of stories for those who like to think.

There are no monsters on Ose. People can be monstrous enough. Disaster strikes the beautiful world of Ose. Marisily is one of the Sages who can help heal the planet when nuclear winter pushes the civilization back to the brink of destruction. Only she doesn't know her own powers yet. It is survival of the fittest as vicious outlaws destroy all that remains, kidnapping, enslaving and killing those weaker than themselves. With a bounty on her head, alone and betrayed by her own father, can a young woman find the strength and wisdom necessary to rally the good people of Ose and rebuild their culture?