Joanna Emerson

Hannah's Civil PirateBased on a true story.Hannah Jones knows little more than the evils of slavery. She yearns for freedom for herself and her children. But in Charleston, SC, in the 1850s, freedom is impossible for a black woman.Then she meets Robert Smalls, who doesn't think like anyone else she ever met before. And he may be daring and gallant enough to attempt the impossible--escape. If they succeed, they will win freedom for their family and friends. If they fail, the Confederate army would hang Robert as a pirate, and would kill his whole family. Or worse, send them back to slavery.

A girl goes missing, but no one tries to find her because her shell is still there.It's hard enough being a teen in the 80s when you're the only punk rocker in your school. Miya will do anything to protect her family's secrets. About Mom and her lover. About her brothers. Never mind her own. Between her bizarre convulsions and the forays into inexplicable darkness, Miya questions her sanity. As the secrets begin to destroy her, it takes a journey into a strange, frightening and beautiful world to realize that wholeness might be possible. The only ones to help her along the way are a lamb, tiny faeries, a fastidious eagle, and an elven boy. In order to get back to her family again, she'll have to survive the seduction of a demon-fox, the snares of a dragon, the devastation of the fire giants and a host of other terrors intent on keeping her locked inside.

A Steampunk NovelThe Potato Famine is almost a decade behind young airship builder, Paddy O'Brien, but its effects still haunt him. Then he finds his mother dead in the garden. But he has no time to investigate her murder, because a refugee falls from a strange airship, practically into his arms.Paddy has no idea how a gorgeous Asian woman ended up on the south coast of Ireland. Under usual circumstances, her company would be more than welcome. But she's being pursued by pirates, and he's drafted into a militia. These are anything but usual circumstances.