Book 1 of a completed slow burn fae fantasy series with second chance romance, forced proximity, and a timid heroine who discovers her true strength.She’s a human apothecary. He’s the fae warrior who once broke her heart… and now he needs her help.As a skilled apothecary, Chloe desperately wants to stay in the mortal realm where she belongs. When Quintus—a fae from her past—shows up begging her to return to Faerie, she utterly refuses.But then Chloe finds out an angry group of mortals have imprisoned an entire castle full of fae. Somehow, Chloe’s heroic older sister is among those trapped.In effort to save those fae, she performs a ritual that gives her powerful magic…except it accidentally binds her to Quintus in the process. Unable to use magic without touching him, both Chloe’s heart and wits are tested.Affections she’d thought long gone still linger. The fear she’s not strong enough to save anyone haunts her every action. Can a timid apothecary find the courage to face her feelings and save her sister, or will her doubts doom everyone she’s ever known and loved?Lose yourself in this slow burn romantic high fae fantasy series filled with a magical binding, dragons, deadly revenge, and a brooding warrior who falls first and falls HARD.The complete Fae and Crystal Thorns series includes:Book 1: Flame & Crystal ThornsBook 2: Shadow & Crystal ThornsBook 3: Blade & Crystal ThornsBook 4: Curse & Crystal ThornsBook 5: Wrath & Crystal ThornsStandalone: Nutcracker of CrystalfallGet Flame and Crystal Thorns by Kay L. Moody, and lose yourself in the magic of Faerie today!

There are many ways to die at the Hundred Halls. Pax Nygard has spent her childhood at the world's most dangerous zoo, and has a psychic fox named Kali as her companion, so she should be well prepared for the challenges that await her at the Animalians Hall. But when mysterious deaths at the local zoo and a dangerous rival create issues, she realizes it's the two legged kind of creature for which she lacks the skills to interact. If she can't learn to navigate the intricacies of human drama, while mastering the skills the hall teaches, then it will be her final year—in school and life.

Every so often, an epic adventure emerges that makes the blood surge, the spine tingle, and the heart smile page after exhilarating page. Such is Whill of Agora, Michael James Ploof’s action-packed fantasy that visits strange new lands as it unveils how one exceptional young man named Whill makes full use of fierce wits, superior skills, and relentless will to help defend the land of Agora from the monstrous Draggard. With plenty of drama and action packed battle scenes, Whill of Agora will enthrall anyone on the quest for great adventure, good times, and an infectiously optimistic outlook on even the darkest and most dangerous of days.It is the year 5170 in the land Agora, where humans, dwarves, and elves have existed in peace for centuries. Now, however, the human King Addakon has invaded and waged war on neighboring Isladon. The once peaceful Kingdoms of Agora are on the brink of continental war. The Dark Elf Eadon, and his army of Dragon-Elf crossbreeds, the Draggard, threaten to conquer all kingdoms.Enter young Whill, a nineteen-year-old ranger with battle savvy and untapped abilities. Having spent years roaming Agora and training with his mentor Abram, Whill has become a bright intellectual and a master of combat. What he seeks most, however, is the identity of his birth parents. Instead, he finds a tumultuous terrain and a prophecy placing him in the center of the struggle. Along the way, Whill encounters an equally inspired group of companions that are matched in skill and mission. These include Rhunis the Dragon Slayer, the young Tarren, the fearless Dwarf Roakore, the beguiling warrior Elf Avriel, and the powerful Zerafin. As Whill joins forces, he forges bonds far mightier than their escalating travails.With high adventure and fierce friendship, Whill of Agora will capture your imagination and grip your heart during every super-charged escapade that Agora’s bold and grinning brotherhood embraces.*Book 1 of the finished 9 book series*

When the dragon chooses her, there’s no going back.Sixteen-year-old Nova Harris has spent her life drifting between foster homes, clinging to a single link to her past: a strange dragon-shaped pendant, the last gift from the mother who vanished without a trace. She's long given up hope of finding answers—until a living, breathing dragon crashes into her world.Whisked through a portal alongside her fiercely loyal best friend Zephyr, Nova arrives in Ragond—a realm of spellbound forests, skyborne citadels, and ancient magic. Though she has no memory of this place, Ragond remembers her. Her name carries weight. Her family, power. And when she's invited to compete in the legendary dragon rider trials—and Zephyr in the fiercely competitive witch trials—they realize their arrival was no accident.But magic makes enemies, and not everyone welcomes the return of their bloodline. As political tensions crackle and factions plot in the shadows, Nova and Zephyr uncover a secret hidden even from the realm's most powerful: twin dragons, thought to be a myth—and a bond that could change everything.Now, Nova must make an impossible choice: follow the trail that might lead to her lost mother, or stand and fight for a land that may be her true home. One path holds the key to her past. The other could spark an inter-dimensional war.

Those who go into the forest come back different ... or not at all. Introducing a beautiful, NEW breed of monster in this twisted, modern-day fantasy. Enchant them. Kill them. Bring. Them. BACK.Sixteen-year-old Daniel Thatcher has accepted some hard truths. He knows his parents are junkies, his ex-girlfriend’s a cheater, and he’s one write-up away from losing his job; but what he’s unwilling to accept is that his friend Tony skipped town for no reason. So when Daniel finds a map Tony left behind, he follows it to a remote section of the Cascade Mountains.It’s a land filled with haunting shadows and crowded trees, where birds don’t sing and animals don’t rustle. It feels cursed in its silence, and Daniel’s convinced he’s uncovered a place no man has touched—nor would ever want to.Only he’s wrong.Daniel ultimately discovers inhabitants living in the heart of the forest. Despite their peculiar behavior, the reclusive residents possess an allure that goes far beyond their beauty. They are charming and enigmatic, every piece captivating. They seem almost mythical in nature—and perhaps a touch dangerous.Because something isn’t right about them—or the land they call home. Daniel doesn’t know it yet, but beneath their lovely exterior rests a sinister secret, one that’s both lethal and tragic: death isn’t always the end.Before long,Daniel will be forced to accept the hardest truth of all: monsters do exist, and if they have it their way, he’ll soon become one.A dark, urban paranormal, Colors of Immortality is the first book in its series. Each installment features a bonus short story following the epilogue titled, The Legend. Too important to be missed, this short gives valuable insight into the villain (and can possibly twist the entire narrative). WARNING: This series grows darker with each subsequent book. Read with care.