Character Madness and Musings

Cover Real The Hunting Town by Elizabeth Stephens Drugs, cartels, the mafia. Pain, greed, and revenge. When an unexpected murder brings the Russian mob down on their heads, five brothers brought together by the foster system will have to forge a bond deeper than blood if they want to stay alive, defend their town, and protect the women they love.  Summary Plumeria had never thought herself a destroyer of lives, until she brought destruction onto the lives of five brothers. Drugs, cartels, the mafia. Pain, greed, and revenge. These are what Plumeria brought with her when she took a new job tending bar in the fighting pits outside of town – fighting pits owned by the Brothers. Brought together by the foster system, Knox wouldn't have put anything before his other brothers – not even his own life – until he met Mer. But when her life is put at risk, he intervenes, dragging all of his brothers with him into her world. Dixon wants Mer gone. She's the da...

***New Release*** The Beast & The Sleeping Prince Summary A long time ago, in a kingdom far, far away, a young prince is born.  When his parents choose not to invite the Ruler of a nearby kingdom to the celebration of the prince's birth, he crashes the party and curses the child; a curse which will bring about his death on his eighteenth birthday. Luckily for the princely babe and his parents, the Faery Queen had yet to bestow her gift upon the child.  Using her magic, she changes the curse from death to a long sleep. In the meantime, in the Sorcerer's own realm, a girl is born to a peasant couple.  When they cannot meet their tax burden, the Sorcerer King claims the babe as his own, declaring she will become his bride on her eighteenth birthday or be doomed to walk the land as a beast. Join James as he, once again, uses magic to twist two of his favorite books, Sleeping Beauty and Beauty and the Beast, into one story, The Beast & the Sleep...

Ezra Ezra from The Carriage and Silas Ezra meets Alexis at the most vulnerable time of his life. His brother Amos, hired an assasin to kill him, but his father refused to lose another son, and found a way to bring him back. He wakes up in a stranger's lab, and returns home after a short time of adjustment. He arrives to mayhem, not having known that his brother hired the man who killed him.  His favorite pastime is walking in the thick London fog late at night where he can easily disappear. On one of these walks, he witnesses Alexis' crash into the Victorian Era. Adjusting to gifts he acquired with his new life as a Prodirari, he is shocked when a light touch shows him her thoughts. The things he sees in her world boggle his mind. He follows, and tries to protect her, even though she's rebuffed him numerous times. When Ezra finally gives up, he finds her facing the local magistrate and life in an asylum. In Silas, book two of The Passages of Time, Alexis...

It's been a while since we've visited characters from The Carriage, and they are some of my favorites. Some of them are also in Silas, so I think I'll merge the two books here. Alexis   When the story begins, Alexis is a senior in high school. She's pretty, popular, smart, and she knows it. Her sister Brooke is a bookworm, less pretty, and not popular, She and Alexis don't get along. When Alexis pushes Brooke one too many times, she purchases a potion, and sends Alexis crashing into the Victorian Era. Alexis faces a world much different from her own. She finds herself in a place where women wear long dresses, big hats, boots, and the damnable corsets she's always read about. Unable to work, she finds herself hungry and poor. Ezra, a man she met the night she arrived, has been stalking her. When she finds herself facing the magistrate for stealing food, Ezra is her only hope of escaping a cruel future with no way home. After living in an Era whe...

Read   Belshazzar, The Legend of Misty Haven, a novelette in Haunted by Darkness - A Collection of Fairy Tales and Legends. Get your copy here . www.jenabaxter.com

Mothers Are a Special Gift by Faye Diane Kilday Mothers are a special gift sent  from God above,  They bless us with their nurturing, And fill us with their love. They pick us up when we are down, And when we're sad they know, They're always there to lend a hand, And guide us as we go. And mothers are like special jewels  that can't be bought or sold... A mother's love's more precious  than the rarest gem or gold. Yes, mothers are a special gift sent  from God above,  And we'll be blessed forever with  their never ending love! © Faye Kilday 1996

Qwei Qwei - Belshazzar's Lovers and Paladin of Misty Haven Qwei is the closest woman to Belshazzar. She's tried to get Belshazzar to move in with her, and settle down, but worried about the people he protects, he has always refused. It hasn't changed anything. Qwei is always there for him in his time of need. Her relationship with Meylan is strained, although she gets along with Jessandre fine. She does everything she can to help Belshazzar stop aging, but he's been taking his potion for too long, and she soon finds she has an obligation to either help him, or if she can't, to tear him down. Read more about Qwei in  Belshazzar, The Legend of Misty Haven, a novelette in Haunted by Darkness - A Collection of Fairy Tales and Legends . Get your copy here . www.jenabaxter.com