A Solitary Blue
Melody lives with her son Jeff and her husband who the call the Professor and when Jeff is in the second grade Melody left them and went to her home town in South Carolina. Then for almost six years Jeff did not talk to his mother. When Jeff was going into the seventh grade the Professor said that Jeff's mom wanted Jeff to go to her home town to visit her. Then Jeffrie goes to visit his mom for the summer before he has to go to school and gets to k... Dicey's Song
After their mentally ill mother abandoned them, Dicey Tillerman and her brothers and sister have found their way to their poverty-stricken grandmother's farm. Dicey struggles with responsibility for her younger siblings, fitting in at her new school, making friends, and working a part-time job. The mother eventually dies in a mental hospital and Dicey has to learn how to let go.... Elske: A Novel of the Kingdom
Elske escapes her Wolfer people and adapts to civilized Trastad life, helping a Queen regain her usurped throne and impressing her various Masters and Mistresses with her loyalty, courage and cleverness. Elske is a Wolfer slave girl who has been given the role of Death Maiden, the role of being sacrificed when the Volkking - the Wolfer King - dies. The Wolfer people live in the Northern territories of the Kingdom and are essentially akin to Vikings in th... Homecoming
After losing her job and single-handedly raising four children, their mother just broke down. Her mind just stopped. And she never came back. Leaving the children alone in the car alone on a hot summer day, worried and frightened, but still awaiting her return. A whole day and long night went by and still nothing. The only thing to do was the only thing they would do to stay together. So Dicey, the eldest child or four, lightened their load and set off...
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Jackaroo
Gwyn dons the disguise of the people's hero, Jackaroo, in order to help mete out justice in a kingdom where the lords don't care about the people's suffering and the people are killing and hurting each other to survive. Gwyn is an innkeeper's daughter who doesn't want to get married and doesn't want to spend the rest of her life working in her father's inn. The winter is difficult and there has been lots of desperate robberies and crimes being committed... On Fortune's Wheel
Birle falls in love with a nobleman and follows him as he travels to foreign lands, in the process becoming enslaved, escaping her slavery and returning home to help her nobleman claim his earldom. Birle is an innkeeper's daughter who has recklessly agreed to marry an older man named Muir because she was intoxicated by his attentions. She lives in a small forest village on the edge of the kingdom. Since she had agreed to marry Muir, she started having do...
