Now Playing: Book One, “Lovers and Beloveds”: Eighteen-year-old Prince Temmin has led a childhood as close to normal as possible, far from the capital. When he comes of age and joins his father King Harsin, he’s completely unprepared for the politics, assassins and sexual intrigues at court. Temmin is even more unprepared when he discovers there is magic . . .
Set in a fictionalized version of Hot Springs, Arkansas, Ho Springs is the story of a native daughter who returns home after 20 years in Paris to find her family in a shambles, their historic restaurant shuttered, the town itself in chaos. Ho Springs is told from several characters’ viewpoints, including a Parisian teenager and a meth ho, an Evangelical . . .
From the author of the award winning novel “River” and internet cult hit “Catharsis” comes a serialized novel about the end of the world and the lives of those destined to stop it. Three girls are thrust together by their shared abilities and the roles they are to play in the nearing apocalypse. They are guided only by the mysterious . . .
Four unlikely friends are permanently linked together when they install a beta “ultimate collaboration” tool on their computers—that allows them to teleport to and from each other’s homes at ease. Of course, they get more than they bargained for when they discover they can’t turn their connections off . . . . . . .
In the world of Gaia, people have Resonance Souls. These souls grant them special powers. But some of these powers are feared. The ones of most relevance are The Prophecies, which consist of The Phoenix and The Soul Stealer. These Resonants are so strong that factions exist to try to stop them from destroying the world. In a . . .
Phantasia Celeste has spent her life living in an ethereal world of flying islands and pretty people with soul-wings – but, unlike Phantasia, other faeries don’t have white hair or diamond eyes and so, driven to understand her place in the world, she travels to the human world. The 31st Century, however, is not a friendly place. A millennia . . .
“SuperMegaNet” is the fast, zany story of four gifted 12-year olds who discover some software that takes chat to a whole new level.
The three boys and one girl are smart enough to be starting high school and worried about how they’ll fit in. They’re met on their first day at [more . . .]
Although this story is Mei’s first fiction piece, her 30+ years of professional writing (and web design!) shine through in this lovely story. I discovered it at the beginning, but as other have noted, the first few chapters take awhile to engage you. I re-discovered it around ch. 17 of book 2 and became a rabid convert.