Books
“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.”
– Walt Disney
A Gracious Hope
A Gracious Hope is part of the Hope Ever After series, a multi-author collaboration in support of OUR Rescue.
Can one find hope when everything familiar has been stripped away?
On the eve of her nineteenth birthday, Alora learns she’s not a peasant girl, the people who raised her aren’t even related to her, and she can’t marry the boy from the village who promised to return for her. She’s a princess, betrothed to a neighboring royal — and cursed since birth.
But Alora adores her simple life and flees from her newfound expectations. When the curse is enacted anyway, she must fight her way through a strange new land. If she doesn’t defeat the one who cursed her, she’ll be trapped in a dream forever.
A Gracious Hope, a retelling of Sleeping Beauty and The Wizard of Oz, is a stand-alone novella, complete with such tropes as “protective hero,” “he falls first,” and “no damsels here.” It is part of the Hope Ever After series, a collection of twenty hopeful and uplifting fairy-tale retellings. Each book is written by a different author, so it can be enjoyed in any order. The proceeds from this series are donated to the O.U.R. (Operation Underground Rescue) to rescue children from exploitation and trafficking.
Of Song and Wonder
Set in the same world as A Gracious Hope, Of Song and Wonder follows a brand new couple, as they face their own struggles and grow closer.
She’s trapped in a tower. He’s seeking adventure. Will love guide them home before it’s too late?
Life trapped in a faery queen’s tower is lonely, especially for a girl whose vision is fading. Cäcilia still has her music, but she’d rather explore the world before she loses her sight completely.
Peadar is lord of the Never Isles, but a recent shift in the magic means he can travel freely to Tìr nan Òg. When he stumbles upon a girl trapped in a crumbling tower, he frees her and takes her back to the Never Isles with him.
But a new threat has emerged since he left. The rogues from the neighboring island are invading his realm and Cäcilia is in even more danger than before.
Can Cäcilia and Peadar find their way out or will darkness encompass them both?
If you love heartfelt fantasy romance with high stakes, oceanic magic, and swoon-worthy storytelling, dive into Whispers of the Starlit Sea.
This no-spice “Little Mermaid” retelling brings together a mermaid with the gift of healing song, a dashing sailor, and a battle to save two realms from devastating storms — perfect for fans of Tara Grayce, A. G. Marshall, and Celeste Baxendell.
A mermaid. A sailor. A storm that could drown them both.
Content with her role as healer’s apprentice, Sorcha has no desire to learn more about the humans that roam on land, not even the man with the captivating voice. But when a powerful storm destroys his ship, she’s the only mermaid close enough to save him — a choice that will cost her everything. Now every step Sorcha takes feels like walking on shattered glass, a painful reminder of her sacrifice.
Arick might be a distant cousin to the crown prince, but he has no claim to the throne. At least, not until he’s thrown into a conspiracy to upset the royal line. Arick is determined to save his cousin’s crown, but he’s bound to the mysterious woman with the strange language who saved him from certain drowning.
As the relentless storms ravage both human and merfolk realms and the counsel demands an answer, Arick and Sorcha must work together to save their people from disaster. But Sorcha’s time is running out, and if she doesn’t find a way back to the ocean soon, she and her world will be nothing but seafoam.
Can Sorcha make Arick understand her before it’s too late? Or will the storms rip them apart forever?
A is for Apple
Read my story, A Fruitful Heist, in this collection of Snow White retellings, the first Tales from the Treehouse anthology.
Snow White - Fair or Foul?
What if Snow White wasn’t a princess? What if her step-mother wasn’t evil? What if the conflict wasn’t propelled by magic, but by popularity?
Explore these questions and more in this collection of six Snow White retellings.
An elven sorceress faces an impossible choice between saving one life or many in Julian Barr’s Kingdom of the Mirror.
A young beauty influencer finally reveals all regarding the machinations of her step mother in Mark Hood’s Skin Deep.
A mysterious message prompts a young woman to cross the line of right and wrong in Robyn Sarty’s The Fruitful Heist.
Read these and more in this collection!
B is for Beauty
Read my story, A Thorny Truth, in this collection of Beauty and the Beast retellings, the second Tales from the Treehouse anthology.
Find the truth of the beauty within.
It’s a tale as old as time — a beast locked away because of a terrible curse. A young innocent who can right the wrongs with integrity and love.
A young woman exchanges her hand in marriage for the financial freedom of her family in Bethany Swafford’s To Save her Family.
S. M. MacDougall’s Breagha and the Beast tells the tale of a feisty young woman who stumbles upon a cursed ghost town and unearths the truth that sets its prisoner free.
In Robyn Sarty’s A Thorny Truth, a young woman must face her fears and steal from the beast if she’s to save her father.
Discover new twists on this classic tale in this collection of ten short stories.
C is for Curse
Read my story, Once Upon a Swan, in this collection of Swan Lake retellings, the third Tales from the Treehouse anthology.
Only love can reveal the truth.
Evil curses, promises – broken or kept, and mistaken identities. Six stories that explore how love can find the truth within.
After losing out on love to his best friend a young composer risks a new relationship and gets involved with a witch with an agenda, in Jac Harmon’s Swan Song.
Olivia’s superhero alter ego has always felt like a burden, but with a mysterious stranger threatening her city, it might be the only thing she has to save the ones she loves, in Nicole A. Schroeder’s The Curse of the Conjurer.
In Robyn Sarty’s Once Upon a Swan, a young prince must declare his new betrothed. But can he set aside his longing for his lost childhood sweetheart?
These tales from the Treehouse will leave you spell-bound and wanting more!
