Books with author Jennifer Ellis

Her father’s fate is in her hands. Her hidden powers could tip the scales of war… Bree’s hopes and dreams rest within her family’s provincial tavern. So the sixteen-year-old is stunned to discover her mild-mannered father was once an Elemental royal assassin before he turned traitor. Still shocked to learn that magic runs through her veins, she’s thunderstruck when the king calls for her death to pay for the treason…With unexpected support from the handsome crown prince, Bree is spared in exchange for service in the realm’s unending war. Training for the day when her own talents manifest, she struggles to find noble allies as her dad rots in prison. But when the cruel monarch demands she betray her dad, she vows to take down the tyrant.Can Bree unlock her abilities in time to save her father and the kingdom?Threats of Sky and Sea is the gripping first novel in the Threats of Sky and Sea YA epic fantasy series. If you like strong heroines, court intrigue, and powerful magic, then you’ll love Jennifer Ellision’s coming-of-age tale. Buy Threats of Sky and Sea to watch a young woman uncover true strength today!

What if you could see your future? Fourteen-year-old Abbey Sinclair likes to spend her afternoons in the physics lab learning about momentum and gravitational pull. But her practical scientific mind is put to the test when her older brother, Simon, discovers a mysterious path of stones that allows them, along with Abbey’s twin, Caleb, to travel back and forth between their world and what appears to be...the future. Unfortunately, they’re not the only ones who know about the stones, and they soon realize their lives are in danger from a man known only as Mantis. Abbey, Caleb, and Simon must follow a twisting trail of clues that will lead them from their neighbor with Asperger's to a strange professor who claims to know the rules of the stones, and to multiple futures—some of whose inhabitants don’t want to stay put. It will take all of Abbey’s analytical skills to unravel the secrets of the stones, uncover the threads that tie the futures together, thwart Mantis’s plan, and, most importantly, keep her family alive—now and in the future. A Pair of Docks is an action-adventure for kids and adults that explores Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, parallel universes, time travel and the boundary between science and magic. It is the first novel in the Derivatives of Displacement series. Lovers of fantasy and science fiction will find plenty to like in A Pair of Docks.

War draws closer, like a tide to the shore.Bree and her friends have escaped the clutches of the Egrian King, but their troubles are far from over. Still reeling from the secrets that drew new breath when her father took his last, Bree sets off for the safety of Nereidium– the kingdom she’s just learned is hers.But with the King’s ire at its peak and war a certainty, Nereidium is no longer safe. As Prince Caden rallies the Egrian people against his tyrant father, Bree, Princess Aleta, and Tregle race to the Nereid shore to warn them of the incoming danger—and to put the Nereid Princess on the throne.The only trouble there: Bree can’t bring herself to reveal that the Princess is her.It’s not a dilemma she can waste time pondering. With a new weapon in his arsenal, the King’s strikes are sure to be bolder than ever before. And Bree may not be ready to wear a crown… but she won’t let her kingdom down without a fight.

To know, to will, to dare, to keep silent…Abbey’s parents are still missing, possibly trapped in a parallel universe, and the adults around her won't give her any answers. So when she and Caleb once again travel to a possible future—one in which Coventry City is very much not as it should be—it’s up to them, and their neighbor Mark, to try to find her parents and set things right. But it won’t be that easy. Abbey and Caleb become separated, the stones themselves seem to be breaking down, Mark encounters odd ghosts and his half-sister Sandy beneath the Granton Dam, Ian and Sylvain continue to lead them astray, and a powerful witch named Quinta is reshaping the futures to mysterious ends.To save the future—or at least get everyone home—science-minded Abbey may have to perform magic. And to do so, she will have to believe…

What if you could see your future?Now that the witches have been rescued from Nowhere and Mantis no longer seems to be a threat to Simon, Abbey Sinclair just wants to return to her quiet life of chemistry experiments and physics textbooks. But life is anything but quiet for the Sinclairs. Abbey’s mother is taking secret trips to the stones with Caleb, Simon has been arrested for hacking into the City Hall computer, and to really complicate matters, the witches from Nowhere have moved in across the street. Meanwhile, Mark has become increasingly obsessed with some old maps of Coventry, convinced that their strange markings hide an important secret. But when others—witches, of course—start to show an interest in these very same maps, Abbey, Mark, and Caleb find themselves on the run. Soon the race is on to see who can unravel the secrets of the maps first, and Abbey still doesn’t even know which witches are on the good side—if there is a good side.

Do you believe in magic? Well, if you do, then you’re going to want to learn about something called the Law of Attraction. If you use the Law of Attraction, you can be anything you want to be, you can have anything you want to have. All of your most wonderful dreams will come true! Do you think this sounds hard? Do you think this sounds impossible? It’s not! It’s easy! All you have to do is read this book for 21 days in a row. That’s it. Even before the 21 days are up, you’ll see wonderful things starting to happen in your life. And, before you know it, your life will be awesome. An awesome life is what you deserve. Because you’re awesome!

What would you do if you discovered your father was the King's assassin... and you were the weapon they'd all been waiting for?In a kingdom of Elementals, she thought she was ordinary. She was wrong. Sixteen-year-old Bree is happy to be powerless in a kingdom where Elemental abilities mean a life sentence waging the King's war. But everything changes when Elemental soldiers recognize her father as a traitor to the throne and he's thrown in jail--along with the secrets from his last mission as the King's assassin. Now, she's coping with powers she never expected. She's under the thumb of a king she despises. Her father's in prison; his past, a mystery. And the King? Wants to weaponize her for war. Throne of Glass meets Avatar: The Last Airbender in this epic YA fantasy. Over 800 pages of elemental magic that's perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas and Leigh Bardugo. Start the spell-binding fantasy adventure today!

What could go wrong when you use a wormhole to travel to a different universe? Abbey has many hypotheses, but nobody wants to use the scientific method to find out. So Abbey, Caleb, Simon, and Mark plunge blindly through the wormhole in search of their parents, accompanied by the ever-enigmatic Sylvain. They encounter powerful witches and fierce switchers on the verge of war, are forced to “physic” their way out of multiple situations, and discover that Ian is not who he seems.Mark, who finds himself revered as special in this strange new land, must find the warrior within himself, while Abbey struggles to open her mind to her parents and her brothers.But Sandy is on their trail, as is a general in the US military who’s in search of an element needed to fuel space travel and save Earth. When Sandy grows a new grave tree and the wormhole gets stuck open, the world they have entered tips over into armed conflict—and only Abbey, Caleb, Simon, and Mark can stop it.

A mythical map. A pirate's quest for revenge.The pirate crew of the Lady Luck lives by many rules, but chief among them is this: they do not allow men on board.That’s a rule that first mate and quartermaster Grace Porter is willing to break when a shipwrecked young nobleman offers her information of an omniscient treasure map, stolen from his warship by an enemy vessel. Until now, the map was only the stuff of legend… but with its help, Grace may finally be able to hunt down the Mordgris, the sea monsters who stole her mother away from her.Unfortunately, some members of her crew have other plans...To find the magic map and face the Mordgris, Grace will have to confront her past, put the Luck between warring nations, and uncover treachery aboard the ship. And ultimately, her revenge and the destruction of the Mordgris will come at a hefty price: the betrayal of her crew.Grace promised them they wouldn’t regret this.She just isn’t sure that she won’t.This pages practically turn themselves in this YA pirates adventure novel that's perfect for fans of Daughter of the Pirate King, Seafire, and To Kill a Kingdom.

The little monster met the little human. And that was the beginning and end of the world as they knew it.MARA is a monster. One of the feared Mordgris, mermaid-like sea monsters of the deep who steal faces and souls. They trail pirate, naval, and merchant ships alike in the hopes of finding their next meal.AMISTA's father just fell overboard for the Mordgris to feast upon. Good riddance, she thinks. He was a shoddy example of a father and not a much better king. And she's tired of being a proper princess and pretending otherwise for polite society.When the two meet, Mara knows she should make a meal of the little human. But how can she resist discovering more about the one who behaves so differently from the rest of her kind?And to Amista, Mara may not be so monstrous after all...In this imaginative new spin on the classic tale of The Little Mermaid and prequel to the Lady Pirates series, Mara and Amista will grapple with decades-long fear and loathing between their kinds. ...And not everyone will get to keep their soul.

What’s a pirate without her crew?Abandoned on an island and left for dead, pirate Grace Porter has no idea how she’ll save the crew of the Lady Luck from the traitors in their midst... until an unexpected ally appears, bringing new hope with them.But Grace hadn't counted on the fact her new alliance means she'll be forced to confront her past--not to mention, her strange connection to the sea monsters who stole her mother. A connection that's only growing stronger.Now, armed only with her wits and the stolen scrap of a magical map, Grace races off in hot pursuit of her ship, desperate to reach the Lady Luck before her enemies can rain destruction and havoc upon them.Grace prays she finds them first, but the clock is ticking.And she may already be too late.The second fantasy novel in this YA pirates adventure series will continue to enthrall fans of Daughter of the Pirate King, Seafire, and To Kill a Kingdom.