The Maid of the Mist

By Melissa Crickard

Courageous Lelewala is a young girl living along what is now the Niagara River. When she loses her mother suddenly, she decides that carrying on the oral tradition of storytelling is her calling. She weaves fantastic tales that capture the attention of the villagers in her tribe. But as the children living along the Niagara come of age, a sudden tragedy befalls them, and Lelewala blames herself. After exiling herself from the village, a mysterious creature convinces her to live out her story in another, more dangerous way. She braves the rapids of Niagara Falls, setting into motion a chain of events that will change the lives of her people forever. Both she and her tribe have a powerful enemy that soon makes its presence known. As Lelewala moves closer to her destiny as the maid of the mist, she will have to rely on her own skills to save her village from the mortal danger it faces.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Melissa Crickard
• Release date: Aug 2, 2019
• ISBN: 9781732585690

Melissa Crickard

Melissa Crickard is an MFA student and a practicing anesthesiologist in Buffalo, NY. Her short fiction piece, The Very Pertinent News of Gabriel Vincent DeVil, recently placed in the 86th Annual Writer's Digest Literary Fiction Awards, and her work has appeared in Nanny Magazine, Parent Co., MothersAlwaysWrite.com, Dark Ink Anthology, Fredericksburg Literary and Art Review, and the anthology Children of Zeus, among other publications. Melissa is the mother of two children, the owner of a chatty Panama Amazon parrot, and a lover of all things outdoors.

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