Held for crimes against the Neutral Zone, Amaya's team may fall apart while she wrestles with her powers.Amaya is supposed to bring peace to the galaxy. Which is tough when she's being held for crimes against the Neutral Zone. Her imprisonment is on her own ship with her own crew. But close quarters create tension.Honestly, her role as Rayatana is a mess.She may never get to use her powers for anything good. Not if her teacher continues to keep secrets, and not if her powers keep harming others. Putting her mother in a coma should put her in prison, but she has a mission. She wants to bring peace to her people. She needs to become the Rayatana.In this second installment of The Rayatana Series, the people groups of the Neutral Zone come together to see if they believe Amaya is truly the Rayatana, a prophesied figure who will bring either peace or war to the galaxy. Amaya's adventures delve into her internal struggle with fear and her need to understand...

An old movie theater welcomes Amaya in and wraps her up in the smell of popcorn and licorice. But one sunny afternoon during a matinee, the movie screen goes dark. The theater rumbles.A spaceship in disguise,An Earth girl searching for a sense of home,And a Thousand Years' War between alien races of The Great GalaxyAll collide on a summer afternoon.When the spaceship rumbles to life, it traps Amaya in the middle of an ancient alien conflict. Angry and frightened, Amaya entangles herself in a life-changing cultural misunderstanding with Sol, a young alien who keeps omitting key information, even while they're on the run from his enemies.What will it take to survive a battle between alien races involved in an ancient war?Liftoff is an action-packed science fiction novella for teen/YA book lovers who enjoy space battles, fistfights, and a hint of romance.Written by the author as pure escapist fiction during April 2020, this book...

Imagine:A super-powered teen who hopes for acceptance despite his villainous past...A fairy who fuses with iron to save her people...A depressed war robot who longs for love...A writer tied to her hungry cyber-audience...A friendship under duress...An assassin who blushes...A bullied teen and a knowing janitor...A waterslide at the end of the world...And more...Enter worlds within worlds of imagination. Flicker: A Collection of Short Stories and Poetry invites readers to wonder and imagine stories in fantasy, science fiction, and real-world settings. The stories range from hint fiction length to traditional short story length. The poems range from haiku to Elizabethan sonnet, with a robotic twist. If quirky, imaginative, and bewildering is your style, then this is the right book for you.

A year after she won the battle for Septily, Clara feels trapped in Skycliff by the Allied Council. As the last pieces of information about the Healing Caves fall into place, Clara is attacked by an assassin. Covert Drinaii mercenaries and the Council aren't going to stop Clara from her quest to heal her broken blade. As Champion of Aramatir, she must act.Meanwhile, in the joint kingdoms of Rrysorria and Wylandria, the youngest and still cursed swan prince despairs of ever being whole again. In a moment of anger and desperation, Liam discovers a blood link between him and a dark sorceress.Clara won the battle for Septily, but her battle isn't over.Champion in Flight is the second book in The Champion Trilogy.

No matter how hard circumstances are, there is hope for survival, even if it means making one simple choice in the right direction or standing up in the face of impossible odds.But the question remains: What is the right direction and which way is up?In these 25 Impossible Tales of Survivors, Flawed Heroes, and Annoyed Villains, we meet over 25 characters faced with impossible odds and difficult choices. Each story offers a unique perspective on what it means to be human, to survive, to live with hard choices, to have purpose, to love, to succeed, and to have hope.These stories are set in near-future, alternative world, and far future science fiction and fantasy worlds. Some characters fly spaceships, and some wield swords. Some characters are everyday people, and some are extremely strange.The story lengths range from 300-word micro-fiction stories to five-thousand-word...