Books with author Alexandra Little

17-year-old Eva is a noblewoman by birth and sailor by training, heiress to a great merchant fleet. Already wounded by her mother’s death, she is then summoned from her tropical home by her long-estranged father to join him in the frozen northern outpost of Winter’s Crown. Despite her hatred of the place and her father, the ruins hidden deep in the mountains draw her in. But her need to discover their secrets causes her to accidentally release an imprisoned spirit, a spirit whose only goal is to consume life.And now, with the help of her estranged father, her friends, and an elf prince with secrets, Eva must find a way to destroy the spirit for good. For when she awoke the spirit, she became the unexpected inheritor to a battle over old magic, ancient armies, and the ghost of her dead mother.

With the arrival of winter, Eva’s enemies won’t be far behind.Eva defeated Adhannor and became the Lady of Tal Aesiri, but now she is in a precarious position. The elf Queen is unlikely to let such power reside in another’s hands, especially a human’s hands. The humans themselves won’t let power rest it he hands of someone disloyal to the Empire. And the woman now in charge of Winter’s Crown may have been the love of Eva’s traitorous—and dead—friend.Eva has a promise to fulfill to the undead of Tal Aesiri - to free them from their imprisonment on the mountain of old magic. But as her transformation into the Lady consumes her, Eva doesn’t know if she can both she keep that promise as well as fend off the invaders that want the old magic for themselves. There may be no way to win this war without sacrificing herself in the process.

15-year-old Adil was abandoned at birth and branded a witch in the village where she was left, and would have been killed except for the fear of bringing lifelong bad luck. But her life as an unwanted and abused foster daughter changes when a conquering warlord prince arrives in her little village and realizes that a mind-reading witch, even one who is not very good at it, is a valuable asset. The prince claims her as a spoil of war, and takes her back to the capital of his growing empire.It is there that Adil finds not only friends that don’t mind she’s a witch, but enemies who don’t care about superstitious bad luck. Adil must quickly learn how to use her feared magic, for she has landed in the middle of a dangerous court intrigue where the prince’s enemies are now hers, too. She must find out who is trying to kill the prince, before she ends up dead herself.

Mara has never met her mother. Though she was raised in her mother’s homeland by her father, the elf prince Dalandaras, her mother Eva is trapped in the far north, bound by the old magic of Tal Aesiri. Mara has always vowed that, as soon as she was of age, she would find a way to save her mother from the place that holds her hostage.But now Mara is running out of time. One of her mother’s dreadwolves risks life and limb to find her in the far south. Mara has no choice but to disobey her father, and embark on a journey to the mountain where her mother resides.And the Mara is not the only one with an urgent mission to find Eva.Whatever unspoken urgency drove the dreadwolf, now drives the Empire that Eva once battled. Something has happened at Tal Aesiri that has renewed the efforts of Eva’s enemies to kill her once and for all.With her best friend Karow and the dreadwolf Dhreo, Mara must find a way to free her mother from the old magic that binds her, before the old magic or the Empire destroys Eva.

"Be yourself. People may or may not like you, but it's important that you stay true to who you are." - Anonymous. "I remember my very first therapy session. It was supposed to help me cope with my parents’ divorce. It was “family” therapy because they felt it was best that we all discuss it together. I was told to read a story about another family that went through a divorce, and it just confused me even more. They told me “It’s not your fault, mommy and daddy love you” and blah, blah blah!""There was a time where I hated myself just because I was so obese. I felt un-pretty, not confident, a waste, and I can go on and on... I won’t lie, I still sometimes feel that way. I learned that me, Ali could NOT even get past my outer layer! How can I expect others in my life to get past my outer layer, if I couldn't? I had to find out by peeling back my own layers and finding out what makes me the woman I am. Spending countless hours, days, writing, reflecting, and digging deep into my past. Honesty is something I value, so in order to be honest with others, I had to be honest with myself."I always felt like an outsider in my own family. I’m tired of hiding behind the smiles, the “I’m okays”… the battle goes beyond the surface; it’s internal. This is my story, through the good, the bad and the ugly; I’m holding nothing back.

In 2455, the human race has swelled to nearly 15 billion; despite this overpopulation, conditions are favorable with low crime rates, global security in a world-wide government, and medical machines that cure every disease and injury. But when the presence of a blight threatens the lives of over a billion citizens, the government decides to reduce the population naturally instead of choosing which regions should starve. They dismantle the medical infrastructure and declare practicing medicine illegal. Man Unravelling follows six characters around the globe as they face a reality not only bereft of medical treatment, but the mental security that accompanies it. Individuals hailing from Buenos Aires, Buffalo, Tokyo, Cape Town, Warsaw, and Sydney experience consequences ranging from societal change and rebellion to personal loss and even their own mortality, all culminating in a single question: when we are faced with extreme adversity, do we rise above or succumb to the tragedy?