Spirit Runner Chapter 28 – Mouse
My husband does at least one of the editing passes all my novels go through. He’s a tough editor and sometimes harsh. He made Rootstock Saga much better than it would have been without his brutal honesty. He always referred to the Mouse chapters as the “acid trips.” Affectionately,...
Spirit Runner Chapter 24 – Mothers
Glyneth can’t see worth a damn, but her vision handicap has honed her hearing. The natural compensating phenomenon. She’s not a nice person. Vindictive. Petty. Calculating. But, to some degree, she is a product of her environment. Nature vs nurture. You may remember from book one, the Firstborn lineage...
Raven
“You’re one of them,” he said. The child lifted her dark eyes. Lothor remembered that look. His clansmen had worn it, before. It was defiance. “Yes,” she said. “I’m called Raven.” Raven. The Firstborn gave the name to any born with the dark, man-child look. The Camran look. They...
Storm Hawks Chapter 90: Ethics and Compromises
Now you know why two little, dark-haired waifs from Twelvestones were able to open a swiftgate. They are unwanted, unintended half-breeds relegated to nameless servitude because they were born dark instead of fair. Disconcerting. Yes. But this isn’t a faery tale. Rootstock Saga is about evolution. Biological and social....
Storm Hawks Chapter 79: Mouse and the Misty World
Right about now you may be saying, “What the…?” You met Mouse as one of the waifs who opened a swiftgate for Jenna and Gaven. By now, her companion Raven has moved on from Old Mona’s care, and it’s Mouse’s to time to leave and be put to service...