Shadow Breaker
Shadow Breaker is a retelling of Robin Hood, with a badass magic bow, monsters, a dragon, and a bit of bureaucratic satire. The protagonist, Griffin Grey, has spent most of his eighteen years helping his father on their small farm outside the town of Greenwood. His only love is archery, and he wants nothing more than to shoot targets all day—until he meets the noblewoman Ermasinde. The daughter of a lord, Ermasinde is studying art to distract herself from her feared arranged marriage. When she encounters Griffin on the archery field, she decides to draw him, but the drawing takes on a powerful life of its own as her feelings for him turn from disinterest to obsession. All is not well, however; her brother Brenner watches their interactions with disapproval. While Brenner schemes to put the archer in his place, Ermasinde finishes her drawing—a simple study of an archer’s hand grasping a bow. But it is more than it seems, for when Brenner tries to destroy it, he finds that the drawing becomes something more than charcoal lines and parchment.
Jack of Neath
Three magic beans.
These are what the old woman offers Jack, and she says they will take him to a land with a giant.
But that’s not what happens.
Instead, he finds himself face-to-face with death—literally. When Jack plants the first bean, the reaper appears and follows him everywhere. Undeterred, Jack plants the second bean, and finds himself in a different sort of trouble: it is not Death he meets, but a beautiful girl named Lily Rose. Jack can’t stop thinking about her—but Death has marked Lily Rose, and says she will die before the day is over. Jack tries to save her, but he cannot thwart Death, and Lily Rose perishes in his arms. In desperation, Jack plants the third bean, which grows into a mighty beanstalk—but instead of rising up into the sky, it plunges into the Earth. Is this the way to the underworld, the path to saving Lily Rose? Jack hopes so, but when he follows it, he finds himself entering an unfamiliar kingdom with its own troubles: twelve princesses that are living under an enchantment. To save Lily Rose, he must first save the twelve dancing princesses. But little does he know that the source of their troubles is also the source of his own, and the forces conspiring against him are more powerful than he can imagine…
The Weed Wizard
Danny just started high school, and he’s having a hard time.
He needs to finish his math homework, understand poetry, get a date to the Halloween Hop, and avoid the bully who seems determined to destroy him. So he didn’t need his dad to bring home a 2500-year-old wizard in a lawn mower, and he really didn’t need the wizard to imprison him. Now Danny is stuck as a garden slave, travelling through time to try to find the key that will release him. He must battle lions in the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, face a grumpy mahoutsukai in the Katsura Imperial Palace in Japan, avoid squirting cucumbers in the Alhambra, and escape a scythe-wielding maniac in New England. But time is running out…if he can’t escape, he will be a prisoner forever. Can his adventures through the gardens of the past teach him how to harness the innate magic of gardening…and get a date to the dance?