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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.
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