Books with author Christine Grauer

Dearra comes into possession of the magical Sword of Cyrus just as the evil Breken attack her island home. Though her people succeed in driving their enemy back to the sea, one of the invaders remains behind, left for dead by his cruel kin.Now, Dearra doesn’t know what to be more surprised by, the fact that her sword can speak to her, or that it has imperiously informed her that the handsome Breken warrior is her destiny.The two are bound together by a chain of events that was set into motion a thousand years earlier, and everything they thought they knew about themselves, their history, and their future is about to change.

College junior, Elizabeth Knight, lives a quiet, simple life. She likes nothing better than curling up with her favorite book and escaping to a world of magic and romance. But when her dreams become something more, something real, her life is turned upside down.Beth has been given a wonderous gift, the ability to walk between worlds. When she meets Connor, a handsome stranger with gifts of his own, she believes she's finally found a place to call home. But not all gifts come free, and it soon becomes clear that if she is to find happiness, there will be a high price to pay.Pursued by demons across two realities, she will need to choose between the life she has known and the life she has always wanted to have.

NEWS FLASH... HAPPINESS CAN'T BE FOUNDFor many of us, happiness is fleeting and depends on things we seek externally. We allow our emotions to dictate our lives, and we stay stuck in crappy yet familiar circumstances. We wait for things to change so our happy can happen, while we settle for mediocrity. After enduring extreme life challenges, author Christine Grauer stepped through fear and stopped the cycle of abuse in her life. Through her profound inward journey, Christine transcended her circumstances and mined a steadfast source of happiness—one that also resides within you. In Project LIFE, Christine shares the simple and proven steps in the LIFE Method™ that will help you to:Listen: Turn challenges into opportunities and prevent them from reappearingInvestigate: Be the conscious creator of your life rather than the emotional reactorForgive: Gain a sense of who you are and why you’re hereEvolve: Smile, laugh, and be full of vitalityIT’S TIME TO STOP STRUGGLING AND WAITING… CREATE YOUR HAPPY NOW!

NEWS FLASH… HAPPINESS CAN’T BE FOUND For many of us, happiness is fleeting and depends on things we seek externally. We allow our emotions to dictate our lives, and we stay stuck in crappy yet familiar circumstances. We wait for things to change so our happy can happen, while we settle for mediocrity. After enduring extreme life challenges, author Christine Grauer stepped through fear and stopped the cycle of abuse in her life. Through her profound inward journey, Christine transcended her circumstances and mined a steadfast source of happiness—one that also resides within you. Christine shares the simple and proven steps in the LIFE Method™ that will help you to:• Listen: Turn challenges into opportunities and prevent them from reappearing• Investigate: Be the conscious creator of your life rather than the emotional reactor• Forgive: Gain a sense of who you are and why you’re here• Evolve: Smile, laugh, and be full of vitality IT’S TIME TO STOP STRUGGLING AND WAITING… CREATE YOUR HAPPY NOW!

Winner of the 2018 NACCS Tejas Foco Fiction Book AwardWinner of the 2017 Writers' League of Texas Fiction Discovery PrizeLife in the parched landscape of El Paso is the setting for this book of stories about people navigating their way through dysfunctional lives with the help of friends and family--people like Moníca Montoya, a housewife and mother whose affair leaves her pregnant, causing her to revisit the legacy of her father, a man who maintained two separate families on either side of the Mexican-American border. In spite of their bad choices, the characters in this collection never give up.

Life in the parched landscape of El Paso is the setting for this book of stories about people navigating their way through dysfunctional lives with the help of friends and family—people like Moníca Montoya, a housewife and mother whose affair leaves her pregnant, causing her to revisit the legacy of her father, a man who maintained two separate families on either side of the Mexican-American border. In spite of their bad choices, the characters in this collection never give up.ABOUT THE AUTHORChristine Granados was born and raised in El Paso, Texas. She has worked as a journalist for the El Paso Times and the Austin American-Statesman. Currently she is a reporter at the Fredericksburg Standard-Radio Post.ACCLAIM“Sharply realized fiction located in a vibrant community.” -- Kirkus Reviews “Granados’s characters’ voices ring true in these peeks into everyday life on the Texas-Mexico border.” -- Booklist

Dearra comes into possession of the magical Sword of Cyrus just as the evil Breken attack her island home. Though her people succeed in driving their enemy back to the sea, one of the invaders remains behind, left for dead by his cruel kin. Now, Dearra doesn’t know what to be more surprised by, the fact that her sword can speak to her, or that it has imperiously informed her that the handsome Breken warrior is her destiny. The two are bound together by a chain of events that was set into motion a thousand years earlier, and everything they thought they knew about themselves, their history, and their future is about to change.

Sixteen-year-old Kayla McKenzie wakes up in her car with no cell phone and no memory as to how she’d gotten there. She soon finds herself a stranger in a small town where the people seem friendly enough, but when a freak storm rolls in trapping her at the high school with half the town she soon comes to find out just how much of an outsider she is. The only thing making her forced stay feel at all rewarding is getting to know Wesley, the Sheriff’s son and unofficial deputy. Days pass and tensions run high as the storm doesn’t appear to be letting up, and no one can reach outsiders for help. An attempt at a medical supply run to an abandoned ambulance turns into horror when giant mutated spider’s attacks and kills one of their own, what was the storm and what else could be hiding in it?To make things worse Kayla begins to feel like she’s losing her mind, she hears strange whispering at the oddest times, and has dreams that would scare Freddy Krueger. None of which is made any easier when several more people die, and not from spiders, but things much, much worse.Trapped with monsters on the loose, will Kayla be able to survive them or the people she’s trapped with?

College junior, Elizabeth Knight, lives a quiet, simple life. She likes nothing better than curling up with her favorite book and escaping to a world of magic and romance. But when her dreams become something more, something real, her life is turned upside down. Beth has been given a wonderous gift, the ability to walk between worlds. When she meets Connor, a handsome stranger with gifts of his own, she believes she's finally found a place to call home. But not all gifts come free, and it soon becomes clear that if she is to find happiness, there will be a high price to pay. Pursued by demons across two realities, she will need to choose between the life she has known and the life she has always wanted to have.