Synopsis of a few books

Synopsis of all of my main books -


The Crystal Dagger (maybe the 5th or 6th book I ever started writing when I was 8)
Three hundred years in the past, a prophecy was given of a darkness that would envelope the earth, a darkness born of magic, and mankind would die. There was panic, and mankind rose up against all those who wielded magic, thinking to stave off the prophecy and mankind’s impending doom. Four mages fled to hiding, knowing they had to do something to stop what was coming in the future, so they began working on a plan. It became evident that they were divided on their course of action. Three of them wanted to create a powerful object, something that could stop this darkness, and send it into the future, using their own life forces to do so. The fourth was determined to cheat death. He left the other three to their futile efforts and went into deeper hiding to work on a spell of necromancy that would stay the hand of death. The three followed through with their plan, sending two halves of a magical object into the future, to the two who they knew would find them, and who, prophecy said, could stop the darkness. The lone mage left in the world, stayed in hiding and year after year, perfected his spell. He came out of hiding to visit his one love, a foul woman of the night who only cared for his coin. He came to her late one night, and found her home dark and closed up, and searching inside, he found her almost dead of a sickness he knew no cure for. He carried her back to hiding with him, and began working his necromantic magic on her corpse.
After mankind destroyed all magic, those of noble blood wondered who would teach their children now that the sages were all destroyed, so they erected two scholas, one for boys and one for girls in a small town that was central in the country. It was at St Tomaii’s school for girls that two young people met and fell in love. Mara Lynn O’Donnell, a young student, and Jaksyn DeLeCroix, a new teacher. For three years, their love remained secret, and unnoticed in the school, but during the fourth year, it became apparent that the girl was with child. She left early from school, and had her child in secret shame back at her home in O’Donnell creek, but returned to school the very next year. Jaksyn knew she would return and arrived early that year in anticipation of seeing her again. He was staying at the towns inn, and that was where the monster found him. The last mages creation, his blood still staining the neck of her dress, found the pleasing looking Jaksyn. He refused her advances, her, who no man ever refused in her beauty and charms. Frustrated, she cursed him, turning him into what she was and giving birth to the first vampire as she did. She left him there alone with his insatiable thirst for human blood and disappeared. School started, and there were whispers of a monster killing townspeople. Whispers began including his name. They attacked the school, in search of him, but finding only his sleeping love, Mara Lynn, in his chambers, they slaughtered her instead. Jaksyn did not leave a soul let alive in that town or at either school, and it all remained empty for over fifty years until the memory and the fear began to fade.
Three hundred years later, it is a legend of a myth, and girl at the school scare each other with it as they giggle in their beds at night. Jak DeLeCroix, their handsome history teacher, watches, waiting for his love to one day return.



The Black Knights (The first book I ever wrote)
It’s set on earth in ‘about 50 years’. (no set time) It’s after the third world war, a nuclear war, and what is left of mankind is still divided. Not into countries, but in small, scavenging gangs. It’s from the point of view of a girl in one of these gangs, her coming of age in this backwards situation, all the trials she and her gang faces as they struggle to not get wiped out by rival gangs.



Untitled - (war)
A girl finds out her estranged big wig CEO father, who she shares an apartment with but doesn’t know at all, is guilty of embezzlement and fraud in his large company. A few days after his conviction, she also discovers that he has been lying to her for years and that her dead mother had family still alive after all. She gets shipped off to these people in the backwoods of Tennessee, at the edge of nowhere. The cab leaves her on the side of the road and when her uncle and cousin show up out of the middle of the woods, she discovers there isn’t even a road into the place where she is going and she has to trek though wilderness to get to a place with no electricity and no running water. The school seems just as bizarre at first, everyone openly hostile to the first new student to ever show up at their school, but she soon discovers nothing is what it first seems. She learns quickly that the school is divided into two distinct groups, both very at war with each other, and her, the only outsider to ever show up in town, lands right in the middle of it.


Untitled - (Year of the Children)
A large planet with advanced medicines soon finds out that super long life spans leads to one major problem. Overpopulation. A planet is found that can support life, but it is a seven year trip and no one wants to volunteer to colonize the new planet, so, while the huge colony ship is being built, a lottery is held. It randomly chooses people from every class, field of work, and age. The people chosen are brought onto the colony ship and separated by age into pods that hold twelve people, where they are then put into chryosleep for the seven year trip. The story begins when teenagers wake up early from their chryosleep to discover their pod has been detached from their ship and they were in uncharted space headed for an uncharted planet. Even fighting amongst themselves, they manage to land safely, only to discover they aren’t alone. Several other ships and pods had all been brought in the same way, all kids their own age. No one knew what was happening, or what to do, and things really heat up when they discover that their enemy is a short distance away.


Noa
A young and curious mages apprentice defies old laws and climbs the cliffs that overshadow her small village. No one had ever bothered to tell her why she shouldn’t climb them, or what was on the other side. She sees a huge jungle, thick with lush trees, very unlike the grasslands where she grows up and decides to investigate, leaving the cliffs behind her, and her world as well. She finds a large village in the jungle with advances houses and tools, as well as weapons like she had never seen. When she tried to return home, she finds the cliffs gone, and has no choice but to return to the village which she soon discovers is hundreds of years in the future. She also discovers that magic is almost unheard of and a tyrannical priest is scouring the world looking for her. She is taken in by a group of men known as wardens, who all think she is a boy judging from her shaved head and ability with the staff she carries. Anyone from her own time would know she was a mages apprentice at one glance. She uses their mistake to hide in plain site from the people looking for her, until her mentors old apprentice returns from his final test and uncovers her secret. Alone in a foreign world, the only people she can trust are people she has betrayed.



Quad
The Illarum is famous, a place where only the most elite fighters get invited to become one of the fabled Quads. A four person weapon, almost unstoppable, they learn to move, act and think as one. Quads are the most prized and wealthy people in the world. Each team has a closed combat person, a magic user, a ranged attacker, and one additional, varying on the team. Thousands of years, every six years, quads would leave the Illarum to find their fortunes, and new fighters would go in. All trained, hoping to become one of the elite who would be invited. One race refused every invitation, living alone on their island, away from humankind, the djinn lived according to their own customs. Their powerful magic would have been an ultimate weapon had they joined a quad, but they disdained mankind. One among them left the island to gather rare herbs from the main land, and while he was there, he found a human woman pleasing to his eyes and coupled with her. The result was an abomination in his peoples eyes, and a monster to human eyes. She was small like djinn, and looked like the djinn race, but her magic was weak. He returned with the infant to his home where she was shunned most of her life until she left the island as soon as she came of age. Defying all convention of her people, she answered the call of the Illarum, and it was her who discovered that the Illarum was not a place that trained weapons, but it was a safeguard set in place centuries before to train warriors for a war that was coming. A war that if left unchecked, would wipe out humankind. Her and her ragtag team of misfits would have to find common ground and work together to overcome insurmountable odds so that they could do what was necessary to save the world. A bitter giant with a heart of stone, a practical joker who took nothing seriously, a delicate Fas, always pristine and clean, feeling to good for the rest of them, and her, an outcast and angry girl who was afraid to let anyone in.

Untitled - (seven strangers)
Tia is left alone in a large district after her long time mentor dies, to take care of a backward people who hate her as much as they depend on her. Sitting at the local inn one night, seven strangers enter, where strangers never come. They make it clear immediately they are looking for a man who is unnatural, a man who uses magic. The innkeeper assures them, without lying, that there is no man like that around. Tia listens to them a while, then when they address her, she has fun making them dance around their words before she leaves them confused and angry with her responses. When they track her down the next day, they are none to gentle about packing her up to take with them, and she discovers that she is mentioned in some prophecy about a boy who thinks to overthrow the Imperium, along with her other seven traveling companions. It doesn’t take her long to discover that there are more secrets than there are truths and nothing is what it seems, especially when she accidentally meets the charming ‘enemy’ face to face and he treats her with more courtesy than her captors ever had.



Untitled (research apprentice)
The Academy was the most respected institution in the world. Everyone knew that if you earned a place in it’s ranks, you were set for life, and all of your family as well. It took years of hard work, sometimes decades, and only a select few ever made it into the academies ranks, passing all of their excruciatingly hard tests. The average age for a new Seat was forty. Seat Ardice was sixteen. The youngest to the position, but the laws were clear. Not only did she pass all of the tests, but she passed them with a higher score than anyone at the academy. It became quickly evident, that while she was a seat, she was a Seat without a voice. None of the others listened to her, or talked to her, so no one complained when she began taking trips away from the academy to gather items of magic. Her trips got longer and longer, and more expensive, but no one cared, so long as she was gone. She planned, on her next trip out, to go to the lower islands, islands where no man had gone and returned to tell about it, save for one group of elite rangers. Their ship crashed at the lower islands, when a storm blew them off course from their mission, and only a bare fifth of them returned with the patched ship, including their leader, Ductor Oren. None would speak of it, and those that asked knew not to do it a second time.
Just as she was preparing to leave, the master of the academy strapped her with the new apprentice that he didn’t know what to do with. To old to put into normal classes, and to talented to send away, he dumped the boy on her at a whim, when he happened to see her in the halls before she left. She immediately butts heads with the apprentice who is older than she is, as well as with her captain at arms who objects vehemently when he discovers she is on her way to a war zone to find these fabled Rangers. As soon as she wins the war for their commander, something Seats are expressly forbidden to do, she has made a deal to have their command given over to her. Her stubborn new apprentice, overprotective captain, and the very charming Ductor Oren manage to keep her off balance throughout as she faces one trial after another.