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LAND OF SAND & STARS 
Book One

A rebellion is rising. Her religion outlawed. As the people revolt, eighteen-year-old Alara's father attempts to betroth her to the ruthless High King and offers her beloved desert province as a second capital. With the power to take or give life with the touch of her hand and dream interpretation, Alara has the ability and desire to save herself and her people, even if it means usurping rule from her tyrannical father to align herself with the rebellion.

Alara's dreams foretell war that will begin in her city and destroy them, the war spreading across known world. To stop this from coming to fruition, she must make powerful allies to take on the High King. But the rebellion leader, who happens to be the grandson of the High King—Cyrus—, has plans that place her city in harm's way: Trap the High King within her city and remove him from the throne.

Knowing this could be what ignites war, she attempts to use her power to take the High King’s life and end the war before it can begin. But her power fails. Alara and her people are caught in the middle of their bid for her loyalty and the use of her army. Determined to save her people at any cost, Alara pledges allegiance to both kings in a dangerous, bloody plan of deception. Proving her loyalty could costs the lives of those around her and her growing feelings for Cyrus complicate the plan. If she doesn’t succeed, looming ahead may be not only her and Cyrus’s death, but the destruction of two empires ravaged by war. For Alara, removing her father from power and killing his general is only the beginning.

Book Two

Publicly allied with the High King while secretly loyal to Cyrus, Alara devises a plan to lure the High King into a trap far from her city. Using Cyrus as bait, she hopes to stop the war and change the dream that predicted her death should she join the escalating conflict. Alara places the welfare of her people first and steps into the role of general and dares to lead as her mother once did.

Alara ventures into the world beyond her province for the first time with her army, ready to face whatever battles come. However, there is a traitor in her trusted circle. Surviving betrayal is only the beginning of what must be overcome as Alara and Cyrus’s relationship is tested when he learns of her gifts and the dream that foretells her death.

Cyrus’s overprotecting nature causes them to fight one another as often as they do the enemy. The High King’s mounting army of a million soldiers that intends to invade push them and their army to the brink. Alara and Cyrus must find a way to rebuild their trust to save not only their people, but each other before the final battle.

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Born the bastard daughter of a Duke and his mistress, Jas’s mother passed her off as a boy so he’d pay for the best education. But after sixteen years, Jas is tired of the façade. But starting over in America where she can live as a female and free of her father’s name requires fast money. A lot of it. In her last stint as a boy, Jas joins her Uncle Blackbeard’s pirate crew.

She knew they were sailing for uncharted waters, but when conniving Tinker Bell strands their ship in Never Never Land, it brings changes and desires she wasn’t prepared for. It’s when a flying boy stabs Blackbeard with a poisoned knife her priorities change. Instead of treasure and a new life, it’s a cure and fairy dust to return home.

Determined to save her Uncle, Jas sets out for the island. When she and her men are captured by Peter and the Lost Boys, all seems lost until a native girl, Tiger Lily, frees Jas and offers to help. In exchange, she and the pirates must leave and never return. The girls’ dangerous journey unexpectedly leads to friendship. But there’s something Jas cannot deny—she’s falling in love with Tiger Lily and no longer wants to leave.

As talk of war between the Indians and pirates brews, Jas and Tiger Lily race to find the antidote amid interference of a psychotic Peter. Jealousy drives Jas and Peter towards their final battle and love that will tear Never Never Land apart. To survive and save the people she loves, Jas must become the pirate she was meant to be.