Author Archives: Peggy

Shalador’s Lady by Anne Bishop

This book in the Black Jewels series is about the people of Shalador who have lived for many years under the rule of corrupt queens, who have tried to destroy the way of the Blood, their code of honor, and the traditions of the people. Many of the people live in hiding in the mountains, and some find sanctuary in Dena Nehele. Lady Cassidy, The Rose-Jeweled Queen, agrees to rule Dena Nehele for one year. In this time she has to show the people that she will be a good ruler and that she can help the land heal.
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The Hunt of the Unicorn by C. C. Humphreys

Fifteen-year-old Alice Elayne lived in modern day New York city with her father who was dying of cancer. He had read a story to Alice Elayne all her life about a marvelous Unicorn that had made a pact with a human girl hundreds of years before. The story was about a magnificent Unicorn named Moonspill who gave the girl a piece of his horn to use to call him.
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Starcrossed by Josephine Angelini

Starcrossed is an excellent fantasy and love story all rolled into one. Helen is not your ordinary teenage girl. She is quiet and tries not to draw attention to herself. If she thinks people are paying too much attention to her, she gets a stomach ache. Her dad, Jerry, raised Helen by himself after her mother left when she was very little. Strange things happen around Helen a lot and even more so after a new family moves to town. Read More »

Echo by Jack McDevitt

Sunset Tuttle spent his life searching the universe for other forms of life. His greatest hope was to scan a planet and find the lights on. Sunset was believed to have been a failure.

Twenty five years after Sunset’s death, a stone tablet is taken by his onetime lover, Rachel Bannister. What is the mystery about the tablet? The writing is in an unknown language. Did Sunset find life out there?

Alex Benedict owns Rainbow Enterprises which locates antiquities and obscure artifacts and sells them to select clients. Chase Kolpath works for Alex .Why are people trying to kill Alex and Chase? Who hired them?
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Specific Impulse by Charles Justiz

Jake Sabio, a former submarine commander, and Carin Gonzales, a space scientist, had nothing at all in common. They met when a massive explosion infected them with an unknown disease and killed all their companions. From that moment on, it took all their skills and experience to survive. Luckily, Fred, their MI robot friend, is very good at helping them stay alive for the Mob wants to kill them, the FBI wants to detain them, NASA wants to experiment on them.
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My Name Is Memory by Ann Brashares

The first time Daniel was born was about 520 A.D. just north of Antioch. That was the first of the many lives that he has lived and remembered. Each time he was reborn, at about two nor three years of age, he could remember past lives and recognize other souls that he had encountered in past lives. Read More »