Tales of Balia Series

For generations two peoples have fought over the mountains of Thanador.  The native Tarra'ans hate the recent arrivals, the Contolte, and eventually that hatred turns to war.  Yaotl and Jensen, though, are a Tarra'an and a Contolte who live as brothers.  Yearning to stay together , they find no safe place where both can be welcomed. Frorn across the great water, Nadia is a missioner from the clinic who is able to walk outside the battle. When her path crosses that of the two men, and one of them is injured, they decide to escape down the burning, warring mountain together.  She leads them to a Tarra'an village that claims to love TrueGod and promises to protect both the men, but some hatred takes time to fade, and before long staying in  the village is almost as dangerous to the trio as  setting off alone. But they also find allies and friends, even a little forbidden romance, and when the evil  of the war threatens to destroy the whole mountain, love and friendship may be the only things to save any of  them, Tarra'an and Contolte alike. Visit new lands in this installment of the Tales of Balia, the Christian historical fantasy/romance series that takes readers across lush landscapes and into rich cultures as the deity TrueGod seeks lost and broken people, healing hearts and lives while he calls them home.  Readable in any order, grab a Balia book and enter a new world today.

For Vion Yorraan, marriage had gotten old, but as the son of a woman who married six times, he never expected much from the institution in the first place.  As for Dianna, who lost her mama young and had a papa who never got over the loss, her attempts to keep the peace in their tired marriage weren't helping. When Dianna takes a little time away from her husband, neither of them realizes they have set into motion a journey that will keep them apart for months while TrueGod chases them to some of the most unusual locations in all of Balia. For TrueGod wishes for their hearts, and to do that he shows them the strength and beauty of marriage using mythical cat creatures, people from their pasts, and even a sea monster as he leads them across the Salted Sea.  If they learn the lessons he teaches and embrace him as the author of their lives and their love, perhaps one day they will finally get home. Check out this installment of the Tales of Balia series and visit more lush landscapes and rich cultures from the world of Balia, a place not unlike our own , and the god who pursues people across time and continents to bring them home.

In the city of Balivor, orphans work in the dangerous new factories, facing danger and death daily. One young man, an orphan himself known only as the wryneck, sacrifices everything to rescue them. Then he disappears, and hope among the orphans disappears with him. Two friends, orphans themselves who had escaped Balivor, return as adults to change the laws and protect the orphans. Galen and Zoe hear stories of the selfless wryneck, and they use his stories to try to change the hearts of the city. Then they stumble upon the fate of the wryneck, and they begin an epic journey to rescue the young man who had saved them all. Venturing deep into the myths of the nearby sea as well as the depths of the wryneck's broken spirit, the two friends follow TrueGod's leading into strange and dangerous places to stage a rescue and determine a way to save an entire city of orphans. The Wryneck is a Tale of Balia, a world not unlike our own with a deity who will stop at nothing to bring his people home, one story at a time. Historic fantasy with a Christian worldview.

Taken from his home in his youth, Nikolai is now a guard protecting the royal mistresses in the Most Glorious Land of Long.  When invaders from his homeland kidnap the girls—and everyone else in the summer palace—he begins a journey to get help for those missing and find the truth behind the invasion. He manages to rescue two of his charges, and with the help of a woman from his past who despises him, a guard from the main palace, and a boy who dreams of adventure, he works to restore the girls to safety, but secrets from his past, as well as secrets within the House of Long itself, threaten the entire Glorious Land.  Can one tired, broken guard, even with TrueGod at his side, restore the kidnapped souls?  And where does his allegiance truly lie?  Nikolai must answer these questions and more as he takes a trip into a painful past and faces people and places he thought gone from his life forever. Take another journey to the Land of Balia in this installment of the Tales of Balia, Christian fantasy.

As he turns nineteen, Nick Kyngeston seems to have the world. He's the heir to one of the most important kingdoms on Caperton Island. He's engaged to the girl he's loved all his life. He has wealth and looks and prestige. Unfortunately, all of it is supposed to belong to his twin brother, who drowned years ago, leaving Nick with a life he doesn't want and memories that haunt him.   Anselm, a foreign stable boy, appears just as Nick is thrust into his new role as the adult heir, a commoner who knows nothing of noble life and propriety and makes Nick laugh. Then Anselm saves Nick's life, nearly at the expense of his own, and they realize someone is trying to kill the heir to the throne, which puts Nick, his fiancée Cecily, and everyone else on the Kyngeston estate in danger.   While trying to thwart the danger, Nick and Anselm seek answers in a locked garden filled with mysteries and secrets from the past. But the tangle of secrets will lead them to discoveries that will change the lives of everyone on Caperton Island and could throw the future of the island into chaos.   The Weeping Heir is a Tale of Balia, stories of a world not unlike our own with a deity who will stop at nothing to bring his people home, one story at a time. Historic fantasy with a Christian worldview.

One tiny feral child changes everything for the life of the Sirocco Clan.   When Pasco arrived in the Vinndal Sirocco gypsy camp, he was six years old, a filthy, naked, feral child. Jenifry, the childless elder who found him, had always longed for a child of her own, and it seemed this child was some god's answer to her prayers.   However, Pasco wasn't what he seemed. Danger, life, love, and new beginnings followed the strange child. But the clan stood by their own, no matter the cost, even if that cost meant everything the clan valued would have to change.   Tales of Balia, standalone fantasy books about a world not unlike our own and the diety who moves through it rescuing his children.