Rasann is a world in dire need. The net of magic that has held her together for eons is eroding and the magi can’t patch it fast enough to prevent disaster. Volcanoes spew, waters rise, famine and flood and desolation threaten the world as they desperately await the coming of the Wolfchild to heal their home. Three women begin quests for identity and freedom from the ties that have held them: Ember, from her overbearing and prejudice mother; Kayla, from the rigidity of the caste that has oppressed her family; C’Tan, from her dark and evil master, the Guardian S’Kotos. One will discover she is the first white mage born in three millennia, another will become guardian to a keystone, the sapphire flute, and throughout it all the third will try to destroy them both.

The Sapphire Flute: Book 1 of The Wolfchild Saga

Literature & Fiction

Hoover, Karen E.

Poetry

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Ember has been accepted into the mage academy, but not without cost. She has gained a new enemy, ancient and dark, whose entire purpose is to destroy all white magic and her along with it. After nearly losing her life in a brutal attack, DeMunth is assigned her guardian, and the keystone he wears, The Armor of Light, begins the transition that will make it a true power. Kayla has lost most everything of importance to her—the people, the prestige, and all she fought for the past ten years. With nothing left to lose, she continues her search for the birthplace of The Sapphire Flute and the Wolfchild she believes to be its player. Her journey will take her to strange, foreign, and often dangerous places, and everything she had thought to be true will be proven wrong. In a showdown full of betrayal and heroic loss, Ember and Kayla finally meet on the battlefield, fighting a war on two fronts—against C'Tan and her people, and the mysterious enemy bent on destroying all magic—the shadow weavers. The story is full of power, betrayal, hope, and love. The elements of the universe are coming together, and none can know who will stand in the end.

The Armor of Light: The Wolfchild Saga

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Barely thirteen, Jeremy James Johansen has had more than his share of trouble. His father disappeared without a trace and the police believe he murdered his lab assistant, though his son knows it isn’t true. His dad can’t even handle a knife, let alone a bow and arrow. A year later Jeremy stumbles across a portal to another world and gets pulled through—but not as himself. Somehow he swaps bodies with the man on the other side before the portal disappears. Captured by a dragon and a man in black who insists on calling him father, he tries to escape, only to plummet to his death. He awakens in his own bed, believing it was all a bad dream. The problem is there are holes in his memory he can’t fill. In time, he discovers that the portal holds the answers not only to his forgotten memories, but most importantly, points him down the path to finding his father.

Two Souls Are Better Than One: The Misadventures of a Teenage Wizard

Ember has one goal—to find the remaining keystones and save her mother from the clutches of C’Tan. Desperate to move forward and find the Emerald Wolf, she takes matters into her own hands, cousins Lily and Kayla at her side. Together, they steal horses and break free of the demands of the mage council only to be caught by Ember’s brother, uncle, and guardian, who angrily return the girls to the school. Magemaster Ezeker makes the girls and their three captors a deal—take the remaining students home to Bendanatu and Phoenixia and then continue their quest for the keystones. With C’Tan’s attack on the mage academy still burning through the walls, the younglings are not safe. He said nothing about the danger of the Ne’Goi, their constant harrassment, and the death that would come. How could he have known? The Emerald Wolf brings Ember and Kayla through their greatest challenges yet—surviving repeated attacks from the dreaded Shadow Weavers, a selfless sacrifice, recovering the emerald keystone hidden in the midst of a dangerous maze that only Ember can solve, and fighting a legion of Ne’Goi bent on destroying the Bendanatu. In their darkest hour, salvation comes from the one place they never thought to receive it—their greatest enemy, C’Tan.

The Emerald Wolf: The Wolfchild Saga

Teen & Young Adult

It has been 3,000 years since a white mage has been seen upon Rasann. In the midst of a volcanic eruption miles outside of her village, Ember discovers she can see magic and change the appearance of things at will. Against her mother's wishes, she leaves for the mage trials only to be kidnapped before arriving. In trying to escape, she discovers she has inherited her father's secret - a secret that places her in direct conflict with her father's greatest enemy. At the same time, Kayla is given guardianship of the sapphire flute and told not to play it. The evil mage C'Tan has been searching for it for decades and the sound alone is enough to call her. For the flute to be truly safe, Kayla must find its birthplace in the mountains high above Javak. The girls' paths are set on a collision course...a course that C'Tan is determined to prevent at all costs.

Sapphire Flute (Wolfchild Saga)

Valor Publishing Group