Legends of the Aurora Series

Includes an Exclusive FREE Short Story. Details inside.  A fun, magical adventure with a strong moral undertone. Highly recommended. -The Wishing Shelf Awards An Imaginative New Take on Trolls - Steve Alcorn, author of How To Fix Your Novel Rushing streams, meadows, dark woods, crystal caves, and the earth's lullaby - Linda Bricco Schalk, The Press Project Banished for the crime of having blue eyes, Gaven chooses to apprentice under the treacherous Azool, the Blue Fairy of Torv. Magic comes easily to Gaven yet it's never enough. In desperation, she offers up her firstborn trollkin to her fairy mistress in exchange for the final secret. Not that it matters. She's hideous. No one is foolish enough to bind himself to a blue-eyed trolless.  This quirky and humorous coming of age adventure is book one in the award winning Legends of the Aurora epic trilogy.  The Legends of the Aurora fuses natural phenomena to a veil of magic, and guides you on an action packed adventure dripping with humor into a Norse landscape populated by reinvigorated trolls, dragons, and fairies.   Interview with the Author Why a female lead? I'm certainly not the first to chose a female protagonist for my fantasy novel,but trolls are most often portrayed as male. I decided to explore the softer side of trolldom. Gaven's struggles will rip your heart out, but she finds her inner core of granite. I promise.    Many people think of fairies as sweet or at least benign, but you have taken an opposite approach. Why? I'm greatly influenced by the old stories. They're more realistic. If you've read, the Brothers Grimm in the original form, you'll know what I mean. Besides,somebody had to be the bad guy.   You add a lot of humor to the dangerous situations. Is that difficult? Not at all. I'm always thinking about my readers and when things get dark, I add a healthy dose of fun. Dragons, and more often trolls, are frequently portrayed as angry creatures. I seek to redeem them.    Which character do you most identify with? Leaf. When I'm writing in her voice, I can feel the grass moving through my fingers as she pulls her hands through the vegetation of the meadow, taste the sweetness of the plum as it flows over my tongue, and hear the crickets chirping in the grass.    Why an Epic Fantasy Adventure? I've always been able to anthropomorphize things. Besides, I find that Fantasy allows my elastic imagination to go places its never been before. It's so much fun.   What can you tell us about the other books in the Legends of the Aurora trilogy? Cairn: A Dragon Memoir finds Troika learning just how much he doesn't know as he travels back to the lair for a real lesson in what it means to be dragon. Garden of Betrayal sees Leaf all grown up, but still longing to restore Slug. She faces her greatest fears and prejudices when she meets Terra, Aurora's Elemental twin, but the fairies reveal the stunning truth behind everything in the final book in the series.

What do vengeful whales, an orphaned fawn, and tattooed dragons have to do with the Northern Lights? Everything.  Troika never knew life in the lair. Orphaned the night of his hatching, he trudges through the world painfully unaware of what it truly means to be dragon. Then the voice invades his dreams, and he knows what must be done. Ignoring Aurora is unthinkable, but Troika has already fulfilled his destiny, and he has no reason to risk his life for dragons he barely remembers. Still, nobody denies an Elemental, and certainly not a dragon of the Sapphire clan. But is she calling him home to die, or will he expose the brutal killer before he becomes the next murder victim?  Silver Medal Winner - 2014 Independent Wishing Shelf Book Award  Best of 2014 Design Crowd Winner - Book Cover  This fun coming of age mystery penetrates the world of dragons, a society filled with smoke and lies where honorable wishes are warped by vague memories and unfathomable greed.  The Legends of the Aurora trilogy fuses natural phenomena to a veil of magic, and guides you on an action packed adventure dripping with humor into a Norse landscape populated by reinvigorated trolls, dragons, and fairies.  Interview with the Author  Why a female lead? I'm certainly not the first to chose a female protagonist for my fantasy novel, but it seems trolls are often portrayed as male. I decided to bring the softer side of trolldom to my readers. Gaven's struggles will rip your heart out, but she will find her inner core of steel, I promise.  Many people think of fairies as sweet or at least benign, but you have taken an opposite approach, why? I'm most influenced by the old stories, and if you've read them, you already know the fey were not sweet and innocent to our ancestors. Besides, somebody had to be the bad guy.  You add a lot of humor to the dangerous situations, is that difficult? Not at all. I'm always conscience of my readers and when things get too heavy, I add a dash of quirky fun. Dragons, and more often trolls, have been portrayed as angry creatures by many. I've chosen a different path.  What makes this Historical Fantasy? The Legends of the Aurora trilogy poses an alternate history to real historical facts. I begin with Blue on the Horizon in 1897 Norway. Then Cairn: A Dragon Memoir is set 13 years later in 1910. The trilogy will end 63 years after it began, or the length of one human life, one very special human's life. It's Historical Fantasy because I'm sharing the adventures of mythology creatures set in our known past. The reader may even recognize the humans as possible ancestors.

One has the answer—the other wants her dead. Ensnared in a web of ancient betrayal, Leaf longs to free Slug from the Diamond Death. Everyone thinks he’s dead. Everyone is wrong.  Painfully aware of what lurks on the other side of the door, Leaf prepares to face Aurora’s terrifying twin: Terra. The Fates brought Leaf here, lured her with whispers of Slug’s freedom, but what she doesn’t know is the fairies are waiting for her to step across that threshold. Who can she trust? The treacherous Fairy Queen, or Terra, the demented Mistress of the Lullaby? There are no easy answers when Elementals play deadly games. Garden of the Betrayal, the conclusion to the Legends of the Aurora trilogy, exposes a bitter rivalry between Supreme Mistresses of Magic. Aurora is not alone. Far from it. To unlock the mystery deep inside the Legends of the Aurora begin with Blue on the Horizon followed by Cairn: A Dragon Memoir. You won’t believe what’s out there—right under our human noses.