Books with author C. Amethyst Frost

If you are looking for flowers and sunshine, you’ve come to the wrong place. If you are squeamish, frail, or susceptible to uncontrollable cheeriness, put this book down right now and walk away! This book is about doom and gloom and perpetual despair. It is about the dismal thoughts of a hopelessly depressed young girl and her quest to finally be declared “clinical.” Monsters and demons and an endless abyss are what await you here. If, however, you accept the fact that the world is forlorn and desolate, you may have just found yourself a soul mate. Approach with caution. Be sure to have lots of chocolate chip ice cream on hand, as well as 14 boxes of tissues and the name of a good psychiatrist. Whatever you do, absolutely do NOT read this book unless you are clinically depressed. You were warned.

When 10-year-old Mourning huddles on the cold hard ground each night with a rumbling tummy and barely a rag for warmth, the last thing she dreams about is a family. As far as she is concerned, the strays are her family. She's lived among them all her life, stealing food and hiding from the kingdom guards. Most importantly, the strays keep her most dangerous secret - that she is not only an orphan, but can also do magic. But when Mourning is thrown into the castle dungeon after a particularly catastrophic food raid, she finds that she has another family - a rich and powerful family who promises to take her in and keep her safe. While Mourning struggles between who she really is and who she was supposed to be, she suffers a series of unusual accidents, making her wonder if she could ever fit into this new life . . . or perhaps she was safer on the streets.

In the kingdom of Edleton, a newborn baby is whisked away from the magnificent home of her prominent wizard family, and believed to have been consumed by the fire that killed her parents. She is delivered to a group of strays and grows up homeless, starving, and cold. Ten years later, the child, now called Mourning, reemerges from the shadows and is reunited with her family. From rags to riches, Mourning's new life is not exactly one of luxury. Her family, who consist of a stern, uptight older brother, his fat screeching wife, and her three bratty kids, all seem to hate her. As Mourning tries her best to fit in, she experiences far too many "accidents" in her new home and begins to wonder if she was better off in the streets.

In the kingdom of Edleton, a newborn baby is whisked away from the magnificent home of her prominent wizard family, and believed to have been consumed by the fire that killed her parents. She is delivered to a group of strays and grows up homeless, starving, and cold. Ten years later, the child, now called Mourning, reemerges from the shadows and is reunited with her family. From rags to riches, Mourning’s new life is not exactly one of luxury. Her family, who consist of a stern, uptight older brother, his fat screeching wife, and her three bratty kids, all seem to hate her. As Mourning tries her best to fit in, she experiences far too many “accidents” in her new home and begins to wonder if she was better off in the streets.

When 10-year-old Mourning huddles on the cold hard ground each night with a rumbling tummy and barely a rag for warmth, the last thing she dreams about is a family. As far as she is concerned, the strays are her family. She's lived among them all her life, stealing food and hiding from the kingdom guards. Most importantly, the strays keep her most dangerous secret - that she is not only an orphan, but can also do magic. But when Mourning is thrown into the castle dungeon after a particularly catastrophic food raid, she finds that she has another family - a rich and powerful family who promises to take her in and keep her safe. While Mourning struggles between who she really is and who she was supposed to be, she suffers a series of unusual accidents, making her wonder if she could ever fit into this new life . . . or perhaps she was safer on the streets.