Maggie Henning & The Realm Series

Maggie Henning has learned what she really is--the last of an ancient race of Phoenix.  She knows who her enemy is--OSSA, the leader of the Revenant Army.  She had thought the toughest battle fought.  She only now is learning the road ahead is harder still.  In the hopes of returning a fallen Realm Prince, Maggie must barter with the Angels for his release. But the path to such a discussion is not an easy one. Traveling with one prince to save the other, Maggie soon learns that there is no black and white in the Realm. That the lines between good and evil, and love and hate, are at best blurry. She will learn a dark secret hidden in the past. One that calls into question everything she thought she felt.  Even as she tries to determine her fate, Luc also faces his own destiny. Does he reach for what the future promises, or does he deny what's so plainly there before him?  If the only pain is in denying destiny, do you give in to the agony, or do you burn with it?

Maggie Henning accomplished what she set out to do. She’s returned Michel from Shadow, but at a cost she couldn’t have foreseen. This isn’t the Michel she’d cared for. He’s different…changed. The Realm Prince who’d given his life to save hers has been replaced by a cold and unfeeling creature she’s forced to pledge herself to. Maggie vows to marry Michel so that she may rescue her father from the prison he’s so long been captive in. Her heart belongs to Luc. Taken from her by a cruel twist of fate, they’re now left with only fleeting dreams that never leave them enough time together. And it’s Luc, paid as a father’s tribute, which the Angels have given a sacred task- The Angel Knight, willing to risk all he is to protect that which he loves most. Time is a fickle mistress. We spend the past looking forward to it, the present rushing through it, and the future wishing for more. Curses revealed and secrets uncovered, but it’s a love that only Destiny herself could have predicted that can save them all now.

Maggie Henning has fallen. Sent to Ashe, stuck between life and death, Maggie is living in a dream; remembering nothing of the battle to save the world or of her love for Luc. There is only one way back- she must remember it all. But in leaving the perfection that is Ashe, she’ll lose her mother all over again. Luc won’t let Maggie go without a fight. Even as he watches her body withering before his eyes, he refuses to give up on their love. Aided by trusted friends, Luc wages a war to bring back the Phoenix he loves, even as a threat far bigger than Ossa lets his presence be known. When you are left with only one chance to get it all back, do you seize it, or do you burn the world to the ground?

The road has been a winding one. The perils faced seemed unbeatable. Yet Maggie Henning, with the vampire prince Luc beside her, had faced them. She’d accepted who she was born to be. She’d learned to use her fires to protect those she cares for. She returned one prince only to learn he carried a curse upon him that nobody thought imaginable. She faced both Ossa and Ashe and won. But not all battles are without scars.  Not all wins are victorious. The Realm is ruled by a false king, subjecting its inhabitants to extreme cruelty. Both The Realm and Humankind are a sliver from destruction, and the only shield protecting both worlds rests in the hands of an army at the command of a vampire and a phoenix. There will be reunions. There will be bloodshed. There will be good-byes. Bravery is what one does when they’re expected to.  Courage is doing it without thought of yourself.  But what does one do when those lines are blurred?  

Maggie Henning has lived the last ten of her 16 years surrounded by the constant reminders of her father’s crime, but never knowing the truth behind it. One letter. One last visit to the psychiatric hospital. Just one night, and Maggie’s world changes forever. She is the last of an ancient race of protectors to a world filled with the creatures of myths, legends, and nightmares. Within her flows the blood of The Phoenix; and with it, not only the ability to control and wield fire, but the power to summon it from within herself. Maggie’s destiny is predetermined: save The Realm from Ossa and his army of living skeletons called revenants, bent on total domination. To aid her are new, unlikely friends- beings with their own abilities that she never thought to exist outside the pages of fiction. Maggie must learn to not only accept her new found lineage, but to control the fire inside of her is she is to help save this parallel world she has now become a part of. And time is not her ally. When you have the power to control fire, who will you burn for?