Books with author Elizabeth G. Jordan

Juliet loved growing up at the seaside, although it meant lonely hours chasing after the other beach rats while her mother worked as a seamstress. Juliet never expected her seaman father to inherit a fortune and move the family to New Addison City. Suddenly her mother is a socialite and Juliet is best friends with a strong-willed girl who actually likes her.When Juliet's new friend welcomes her to the Runners, a gang that has plagued the East Coast for years, Juliet sees it as the opportunity to fit in, learn tricks, and make eyes at one of the hottest members. What the gang does isn't really wrong...right? She's used to being a pawn for the Runners, but she starts to question what she sees as harmless fun when the gang uses her to attack a young officer.Jonathan Montgomery vowed to end the Runners after they murdered his family. He joined the Riders, an elite police force dedicated to stopping the Runners' crime spree. They have put him in New Addison City, but rookie mistakes follow Jonathan as he struggles to accomplish his goal, until a young woman feeds him inside information to bring down the Runners.Between murders and secrets, Juliet will need to find her strength to help Jonathan, before the founder of the Runners crawls up from the sewers amongst her inventions to burn down the city.

In 1600, Alven took revenge on her neglectful family through the dark arts. Her village burned her as a witch, but she immortalized herself as a Wittewijven, the Dutch spirit of a healer, and sought the English god who'd taught her his evil magic. He created a world for her, but she had to populate it by kidnapping people from Earth. Death haunts the living.When Alven tried to take Tanneke Van Nuys in the twenty-first century, her father died before her eyes. Since that night, Tanneke has not spoken a word. Now at fifteen, her family travels back to her great-aunt's house in Albany. The last time she was there, she met the Wittewijven. Although determined to face the spirit to regain her voice, Tanneke doesn't expect to lose the rest of her family. Revenge taints the blood.Alven scatters Tanneke's sisters and stepfather across her world. Tanneke can't just free them. She has to kill Alven, but to get to her she must defeat the English god and decide if she can trust Alven's enchanted daughter. It is time to regain her voice and master the dark arts in order to slay the Wittewijven.

Excerpt:The Commencement exercises at St. Catharine's were over, and everybody in the big assembly-hall was looking relieved and grateful. Mabel Muriel Murphy had welcomed our parents and friends to the convent shades in an extemporaneous speech we had overheard her practising for weeks; and the proud face of Mabel Muriel's father, beaming on her as she talked, illumined the front row like an electric globe. Maudie Joyce had read a beautiful essay, full of uplifting thoughts and rare flowers of rhetoric; Mabel Blossom had tried to deliver her address without the manuscript, and had forgotten it at a vital point; Adeline Thurston had recited an original poem; Kittie James had sung a solo; and Janet Trelawney had played the Sixth Hungarian Rhapsody on the piano.

Excerpt from Tales of the CloisterAbove the garden stretched the blue sky, now slowly fading into the gray Of early even ing. In the willows that lined the edges Of the tiny lake, sleepy birds answered each other, their drowsy calls mingling with the rustle of the leaves and the cool splash of the fountain. The smooth garden paths that radiated from the lake were fringed with Old-fashioned flowers: roses, honeysuckle, and mignonette, with here and there a bed of scarlet geranium that flaunt ed its aggressiveness brazenly in the rich so briety of surrounding tones. At one end of the garden a chapel, roughly hewn from solid rock, was covered with a luxuriant growth of moss and vines; near it towered a rustic cross, its base a mass of passion flowers, its arms hold ing aloft the crucified Christ.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Three years ago, Audra awoke with no memory of who she was. With no one to claim her, she was sent to an orphanage.Audra chooses to stay on as a teacher, until Lord Ronan steals her away from the only home she knows. He claims she is in danger from an enemy who wants the secrets buried in her past. Thrust into a world of intrigue and magic, Audra is told she was once a member of the Black Angel guild, a group of elite assassins.The truth seems forever out of her grasp.And that could get her killed.

Home should be a safe haven. Jemilla’s is anything but that.On an island run by male Singers, any female with the gift to hear the magical songs that keep the peace is put to death.Jemilla must hide the gift that would get her killed.When the Thistly invade the island, they murder most of the island’s population, including the Singers. Jemilla escapes imprisonment, but is pursued by a Thistly captain bent on recapturing her before she can Sing the dead back to life. A silver demon waits in the shadows, whispering secrets Jemilla doesn’t want to hear.Jemilla must fight her way through the forest, but with the enemy after her, she might not get the chance to Sing for her island’s survival.

Dylan Hatfield is the outcast in her new town. It isn’t just that her “crazy” grandmother scares people away, but the real problem lies with her best friends: they’re imaginary. Dylan’s bullied by her classmates to the point of physical abuse and there’s no point in reporting it anymore. She knows it’s crazy to still believe in imaginary friends when she’s about to graduate from high school, but they’re her only solace. Then, they ask Dylan to help them possess the bullies. That’s crazy, right? It will never work.When it does, horrible things start to happen around town. Dylan’s childhood friends might not be imaginary…they might be evil. Dylan must uncover the town’s past before there’s nothing left, and she loses her family and the boy she has always loved.

ARE YOU READY TO BE FREE FROM THE PAINS AND PATTERNS OF SEXUAL ABUSE?The “#MeToo” movement has only begun to expose the magnitude and unimaginable number of sexual abuse victims who have had no voice. In her book, Me Too, author Joy Elizabeth Hellmann shares her story from initial event through healing of the effects and trauma of sexual abuse to help others find their way through the isolation and darkness.If you have been victimized in this area, Me Too is a must-read for you. As you learn about Joy’s experiences and see how through placing her healing journey in God’s hands she overcame the devastating effects of sexual abuse, you will be comforted, inspired and equipped to take that same step toward total freedom.Me Too will help you:• Rediscover hope.• Begin walking in restored wholeness.• Know you are not alone!

When fifteen-year-old Edna Mather tears an expensive and unfamiliar pocket watch off her little brother's neck, he crumbles into a pile of cogs right before her eyes. Horrified, Edna flees for help, but encounters Ike, a thief who attempts to steal the watch before he realizes what it is: a device to power Coglings-clockwork changelings left in place of stolen children who have been forced to work in factories. Desperate to rescue her brother, Edna sets off across the kingdom to the hags' swamp, with Ike in tow. There, they learn Coglings are also replacing nobility so the hags can stage a rebellion and rule over humanity. Edna and Ike must stop the revolt, but the populace believes hags are helpful godmothers and healers. No one wants to believe a lowly servant and a thief, especially when Ike has secrets that label them both as traitors. Together, Edna and Ike must make the kingdom trust them or stop the hags themselves, even if Ike is forced to embrace his dark heritage and Edna must surrender her family.

When fifteen-year-old Edna Mather tears an expensive and unfamiliar pocket watch off her little brother's neck, he crumbles into a pile of cogs right before her eyes. Horrified, Edna flees for help, but encounters Ike, a thief who attempts to steal the watch before he realizes what it is: a device to power Coglings-clockwork changelings left in place of stolen children who have been forced to work in factories. Desperate to rescue her brother, Edna sets off across the kingdom to the hags' swamp, with Ike in tow. There, they learn Coglings are also replacing nobility so the hags can stage a rebellion and rule over humanity. Edna and Ike must stop the revolt, but the populace believes hags are helpful godmothers and healers. No one wants to believe a lowly servant and a thief, especially when Ike has secrets that label them both as traitors. Together, Edna and Ike must make the kingdom trust them or stop the hags themselves, even if Ike is forced to embrace his dark heritage and Edna must surrender her family.

Thirteen-year-old Charity can escape her unpleasant reality by stepping through the parlor closet of her mother’s new home, a mansion built in the 1800’s. In her hometown of Talbot, New York, in the year 1880, she doesn’t have to worry about her depressed father skipping his medications or her mother flirting with her coworker. Instead, she gets to know the hatter’s son, who shows her a lifestyle of manners and pride. Few have ever accepted Charity’s old-fashioned ways…until now. However, old Talbot can’t banish the present. Charity can stay in the mansion, with access to the hatter’s son in the past, and the prospect of a steady family unit with her mother and the new man in her mother’s life, or she can go back to her father, who has been given the option to straighten out his life and join them in their new home. Instead, his world unravels, and he spirals into violence and self-harm. Torn between two worlds, Charity knows that if she doesn’t help him, she may lose him forever if he follows through on his threats of self-destruction.

Sarah Lockwood learned to be self-sufficient when she lost her parents. Life with her aunt on the Renaissance Fair circuit seemed exciting at first, but there was no stability.Her uncle’s gardener, Archer, offers her a trip to another Realm and she jumps at the chance. The parallel world is filled with magic, machines, and beauty. The two are tasked with guarding an enchanted pen that records important events.However, Archer has been keeping secrets that endanger not only himself but Sarah, too. He is a member of a rebellion against the Usurper King.When Archer is kidnapped, Sarah must unravel Archer’s secrets, and every discovery shows Sarah no one is blameless in that magical Realm. Making life and death decisions at nineteen is not what she wants to do, but Sarah either chooses a side or her new home will be nothing except ashes.