Swan Temple, owner of The Phoenix Gallery, located in a downtown art district, possesses the artistic skill to create "living environments' on canvas and, as a white witch, the power to sing carefully selected subjects, who have not only lost hope, but also suffer debilitating injuries and diseases, into these spell-bound paintings. Once Swan sings these lonely people each into the enchantment of a world individually-designed for that person, their physical disabilities undergo a magical transformation. Her song also offers these subjects the opportunity to find, within layers of painted images, the miracle of living out their futures in healthy bodies. Sealed with Swan's song and signature, these canvases hang in the "Exhibit Only" section of The Phoenix Gallery. Within the enchanted boundaries of these canvases each person, missing from this world, is given the chance to live unencumbered by previous afflictions and disabilities. Swan, alone, possesses the ability to see in these vibrant paintings her subjects as living, breathing inhabitants. Detective Chase Logan, investigating the disappearance of these missing persons, becomes convinced that a serial killer is snatching disabled victims out of the art district's shadows. His growing suspicions, and bloodhound-like determination to uncover the truth, and his pursuit of this bewitching woman as a suspect, becomes a major complication to Swan's secret life as a witch and...her solitary life as a woman.

"Stormy" Enduring a lonely childhood, growing up in a mountain shack with negligent parents, Stormy Garrison learns to deal with hardships. Following her mother's desertion, and father's death, she is rescued by a long-lost sister who offers the teenager a new life, with a loving family. Years later, on an errand to the semi-ghost town of Shawnee, Ohio, to purchase an antique clock for her sister's anniversary, Stormy is fascinated by a secluded garden. While exploring "Elaine's Garden," she opens a hidden door, and is swept into the current of time, transported back to 1882 when the once-thriving town was caught up in a brutal conflict between coal mine owners, and striking miners. Failing to find the doorway to return home, Stormy relies on childhood memories to adjust to the harsh realities of living in this time. She meets, falls in love with, and marries Town Marshall, Beale Hunter. Hearing of his murder the morning after their wedding, Stormy is grief-stricken, faints, and mysteriously awakens in 2009 where she begins a struggle to rebuild her life without him. Uncertain whether these were actual memories, or all was a dream, Stormy repeatedly returns to Shawnee to visit Beale's grave, to search for a way to go back, to prevent his death. During a freak thunderstorm, three years later, Stormy, as helpless as a grain of sand flowing through an hourglass, once again drops backward into the stream of time.

Wildflowers Don't Care Where They Grow Columbine Archer, daughter of a wealthy Colorado mine owner, looks at the world through violet-colored eyes; yet, the rose-colored glasses her father's wealth provides has tinted the world she sees. Taught never to question its source, or the privileges money buys, "Colee," as she is called, grows up with protective, but self-absorbed parents; her only friends, household employees who have cared for her from birth. After receiving her degree from an exclusive girl's boarding school in Switzerland, instead of Colee returning to Colorado, the family jet flies to Charleston, West Virginia where her father, a widower, has not only relocated his mining company, but also remarried, and built a mansion overlooking the city. Working for Archer Mining, Colee is unconcerned when she discovers her father has began a new mining operation on a nearby mountain. Colee meets Ash Preston, a pilot, and the impassioned leader of a protest group trying to stop mountaintop removal (MTR), the highly profitable, but a destructive practice of mining coal spreading through the Appalachian Mountain range like a deadly virus. As their relationship deepens, he convinces Colee to view a mining site, up close and personal, from the air. Motivated by the horrific sight of a toxic sludge pond, held back by a poorly constructed earthen dam, three hundred feet above an Elementary School, Colee begins making decisions which not only change her opinion about MTR, but also how she views " pore mountain folk" whose homes and livelihoods are being destroyed by the poorly regulated industry. Eyes wide open, Colee begins a difficult journey to awareness which not only invites love, and new friends into her previously sheltered world, but also brings heartbreak and betrayal.

Noble Rule, an eighteen-year old struggling to keep his homosexuality secret, and Annalise Morgan, the reclusive artist who began mentoring him at age three, have formed an enduring bond. Believing his life is in danger if homophobic mountain folk discover his secret, Noble reveals his gayness to Annalise. Shamed to tell his parents, he accepts a prestigious art scholarship in Ohio. Despite the tolerant atmosphere on campus, he feels alienated from his peers and remains fearful of revealing his sexual preferences. His father's unrealistic expectation that his son will eventually pass through his "sissy artistic phase" and accept a traditional role within the family adds to Noble's shame about coming out. Returning home on break, he is determined to reveal his homosexuality. His older brother, a marine serving in Iraq, is killed and knowing to do so would only add to his parents' sorrow, after the funeral Noble returns to campus, his secret intact. Burdened by the loss of his brother, his demanding course overload, dread of being branded a fagot, and his confusing relationship with fellow student, Daniel Mathis, Nobel seeks the friendship of Clella Sargenta, a brilliant Rhodes scholar. Clella, misunderstanding his motives and ignorant of his clandestine relationship with Daniel, declares her love. Although Annalise remains attentive to Nobel's activities through descriptive letters and his infrequent visits home, she grows increasingly concerned about his physical and mental wellbeing. Without his companionship, she easily falls back into her solitary habits. As repressed memories of childhood trauma and her husband's horrifying death resurface, she spends exhausting hours at her easel creating powerful works of art. Nobel's mercurial relationship with Daniel keeps him in a constant state of emotional upheaval and during an art opening; an intoxicated Daniel belligerently confronts Annalise about the mysterious circumstances of her husband's death.

Gathering Lost Time The curse is broken. Four members of the Knight family, now freed from a two-hundred-year old curse, walk out of the enchanted woods surrounding Mist House. Regaining human forms, this fragmented family must leave behind a son, Kiel, who has chosen immortality, and to do so has retained the shadowy form of a Mindcatcher. First welcomed as guests at Mist House this family, once lost in time, have now moved into a home of their own. Each day is a struggle to adapt to customs and technology of the modern world. Having once lived in luxury at Knights End, their Virginia cotton plantation, the family must now exchange fond memories for the harsher realities of the present. Jacob Knight, once the wealthy and prideful owner of the plantation, finds it difficult to set his pride aside. Brooding for everything he'd lost, Jacob now drinks to dull memories of that once productive life. His wife, Deidre, privileged Knights End Mistress, discovers many advantages to living in the twenty-first century. While performing manual and household tasks she'd previously never been required to undertake, Deidre must also deal with heartbreaking challenges threatening the well being of her family. Although sixteen-year old Sophie, and nineteen-year old Seth appear to be adjusting well to their new surroundings; the siblings are unable to forget their former lives, or the brother who still roams the woods as a creature of darkness. As the relationship between Seth and Micah Grant, the young girl who dispelled the curse, grows stronger; the Mindcatcher's influence on their friend, Becca Reed, has also increased to a dangerous level. It may already be too late to save Becca The immortal has chosen her as the potential human vessel to carry it beyond the edge of the woods, and into the unsuspecting community of Zanesville, OH.

A mysterious figure walks the slopes of Noah's Mountain. Foney Monk, garbed in black woolen garments despite changing seasons, might easily be mistaken for a witch escaped from the pages of a Brothers Grimm Fairy tale. Shaped by violent childhood events and shrouded by chilling secrets, Foney has locked away both heart and memories. Unwilling to continue the solitary lifestyle learned as a child, she begins a desperate search for answers. A fiction writer, Twilight Thorn deals with an exciting career stretching beyond the mountain's secluded slopes. A successful author, with four novels in print, T.T. as she is known in the publishing world, is unable to reconcile her public life with the secret one zealously guarded with lies and deceit. A successful entrepreneur promotes the family business, Whispering Willow Winery. Ethan Cole, betrayed by the woman he once loved, has vowed not to let it happen again, but after meeting Twilight Thorn, despite suspicions that she may also be playing him for a fool, Ethan not only invites T.T. into his life, but into his heart as well. When these three worlds eventually collide, change is inevitable.

After her family inherits Mist House, Micah Grant learns she is a direct descendant of Beldon Cooper, the ancestor whose secret pact with a Moon Sorceress has predestined Micah to become the next Gazer. Given the gift of touch during a moon ritual, Micah is unaware the handsome boy she sees and interacts with in woods surrounding the mansion is an image projected into her mind by a dark creature trapped within an ancient oak. Held captive by a two-hundred-year old curse, Seth Knight, and his spellbound family have been transformed into shadowy creatures possessing the ability to enter a human's mind.

Growing up on the wooded slopes of Noah's Mountain, three sisters are trapped in poverty and violence. A year after fourteen-year old Tressa Stone is sold into a horrific marriage by her uncaring father, she finally escapes a vicious husband, nearly five times her age. Pretending to be an adult, Tressa now lives and works in Columbus, Ohio. Her employer, Barb Harris, and landlady, Sally Towns, have not only taken this fiery-haired young woman under their caring wings, but are also encouraging her to get a GED. When Tressa's husband, Zeff Season, attacks her on a lonely city street, Dustin Nash comes to her rescue. Dustin, a Marine Sergeant, is attracted to the mysterious young woman. However, discovering their age difference, he must be content to exchange friendly letters with her after his sudden deployment to Iraq. Following her divorce, Tressa also gains legal emancipation from her father. Working grueling night shifts as a waitress at the Glowing Lantern Cafe, she struggles to save money, find a home, and get an education in order to give her younger sisters, still trapped in a vicious cycle of neglect and violence, a better life. No sacrifice seems too difficult since Tressa plans to steal Johnel and Promise from Noah's Mountain. Back on the mountain, thirteen year-old Johnel has also assumed adult responsibilities. Expected to perform household tasks, abandoned by her missing mother, she copes with her father's drunken rages by writing fanciful stories in a hidden journal. As the middle child, brown-haired, brown-eyed Johnel fears that her father is also planning to sale her, as a child bride, to his violent friend. Golden-haired Promise Stone, the baby of the family, is stalked by a revengeful bully. Already a skilled artist at eleven, she views the world through blue eyes that constantly search out its beauty. Yet, not all of her pictures are designed around beautiful subjects, for many of those drawings hidden in a rocky crevice, depict the brutal events she's witnessed.

Having forgotten how to use imagination, twelve-year old Lindy Cooper has also forgotten her imaginary friend and protector, Princess Twilight, who, lost in a dark void of forgotten memories, waits for her creator to find her. Lindy discovers a mighty stone fortress in the clouds where she meets its Lord Keeper, begins an exciting quest to find a lost Golden child, rides a cloud traveler across a magical starfield, and teaches a dragon hatchling to fly.

Following a forced move from Noah's Mountain, ten-year old Lindy Cooper, upon arriving in Lock Seven, West Virginia, again utilizes imagination to craft Woodland Palace, an incredible marble castle she fashions as sanctuary for her imaginary playmate and protector, Princess Twilight. She conceals the palace within a secret grove of ancient willows that, unbeknown to her is also home to a kingdom of illusive woodland fairies, and a six-inch, armor-clad prankster, Sir Notnert. While struggling to find her place in this strange flat land, Lindy finally finds a human friend. However, a task must be completed before she can devote her time to strengthening this friendship: she and Princess Twilight must decipher baffling verses of rhyme stitched into the ancient tapestry hanging in the palace ballroom, if they are to find three lost scrolls containing incantations they believe will transform Prince William from unicorn to human, and then transport him and Guardian from Amethyst Cavern. Time is growing short for as the result of Lindy' prolonged absence from Noah's Mountain; Princess Twilight's home is slowly disintegrating, and unless the mystery of the tapestry is deciphered soon the crystal cavern, once created to shelter her loved ones, may soon become their death tomb.

Living in a tar-papered shack on the lush green slopes of Noah's Mountain, nine-year old Lindy Cooper uses powerful imagination to mask rejection and poverty while her imaginary friend and protector, Princess Twilight, thrives inside a fantastic complex of caverns this lonely child creates beneath the mountain. Together they must not only find seven keys of wisdom, create magic orbs to vanquish "Dragon" from Ebony Cave, but also find a way to break the curse imprisoning an enchanted unicorn.