Books with author Kay L Lawrence

Kate Smith has spent years controlling her gifts of telepathy and compulsion. It took even longer to be accepted by everyone in her small town due to some mishaps in her youth. Over time, she’d created different personalities that she considered her masks to deal with the world around her. It allowed her to fit in with multiple groups of students and develop friendships. But she allowed no one to see behind the wall she’d perfected not even her family. Kate’s sophomore year of high school isn’t shaping up to be much better than previous years until two new students arrive and challenge her current way of life. Adam and Alyssa have her same abilities, but instead of hiding, they have embraced and utilized their skills. They continue to question and pester until she finally gives in and meets their family. It opens her eyes to a whole new way of life. The three become inseparable and decide to use their gifts to help those in need. After helping the first few victims, they decide to take on bigger challenges. With that, comes more danger. A young girl has disappeared and Kate knows there is much more to the story. They enter a race against time to save the girl and themselves.

Every four hundred years, an all-powerful being is born. Known as the Mystic, this magical entity must maintain the balance of all realms and save the world in an ultimate battle.For those within the magical realms, the role of the Mystic is legendary. However, the Mystic has been born in the human realm. She’s not only unaware of her unique destiny, she’s missing. Time is running out. Even if she’s found, no human has ever stood against a demonic realm and lived.FBI agent, Kate Smith, has spent her entire life hiding from her psychic abilities. As much as she despises being different, she admits they’ve helped her solve some of the most brutal cases. But her latest assignment has her doubting herself. It’s like nothing she’s encountered before, and the gifts she’s grown to rely on aren’t working. Visions haunt her dreams, and questions about her destiny plague her. Worse yet, the answers she discovers are even more terrifying.For twenty-eight years, Xander Montgomery has searched for the only being who can save all realms. But it’s not easy finding someone unaware of who she is, and being stuck in the human realm isn’t helping his disposition. As a Guardian, he has one mission—protect the Mystic. When Kate and Xander finally meet, he’s convinced of one thing. If he can’t persuade the strong-willed stranger to follow him on a deadly quest, the world is doomed.

While Kate prepares for her junior year of high school, a dark cloud seems to be threatening the town. She assumes it’s all in her head, but her continual visions show total chaos extending its ugly claws toward Rosewood. The more details she discovers, the clearer the truth becomes. Unless the coming storm can be stopped, no one will survive. With the help of Adam and Alyssa, Kate searches for the cause of the impending destruction, and they stumble across an old Cavanaugh prophecy. The storm is actually a dangerous curse created many years ago and placed upon the entire town. Only one person can defeat it. Kate. But she doesn’t know how. As the wind howls, and the day turns to night, no one is safe from Cavanaugh’s wrath. Kate must make the ultimate sacrifice to gain the town’s freedom or watch them all die.

Boldre Wood, a vast, wild, impenetrable forest, stretches from the eastern shores of the continent all the way to the west. Undisturbed by man, the forest is home to a miniature race of people who live in the ancient trees. Theirs is a dangerous world, where even the smallest insect is a formidable foe.Shielded from these dangers by his parents during his early childhood, Barnaby 'Billy' Billicoot is brutally forced to face the reality of his world when he is orphaned at the age of fourteen.As his mother lies dying from the viral infection raging through Angloak, she tells Billy of her belief that he will go on to make their world a better place. With his mother's dying prophecy ringing in his ears, Billy sets out to learn more about his home, only to be immediately attacked by the vicious stairway-men who rule the great stairs of the tree.Can one young boy really make such a hostile world a better place, especially when he learns of a new threat facing Boldre Wood, more deadly and terrifying than anything they have ever seen before?

The second in the Boldre Wood Trilogy:The Carintheans have stepped up their interests in Boldre Wood, making increasing forays to the shore. But at a time when the people of Boldre Wood should be working together to defend their homeland, the North Oakian Council remains stubborn, refusing to form an alliance with their old foe Angloak under any circumstances.Billy, struggling to settle once more to normal life on Floor 14, uncovers a conspiracy during a homework assignment that could help the two tree nations overcome their difficulties. However, before he can expose the scandal he must evade a powerful family determined to stop him by whatever means.As he sets out across the Great Lake bound for North Oak, he is followed by an enemy that has no intention of giving up without a fight, even if it means sacrificing the whole of Boldre Wood.Can Billy make it to the North Oakian Council chambers to present his evidence, and if he does, will they or anyone else listen?

The people of Boldre Wood wait for the day they know will come, the day they must fight the giant Carintheans. When word arrives through the Barlowian spy network that the Carintheans have set up a permanent camp and are travelling ever deeper into the Wood, the united armies gather.The odds are impossible. The Carintheans are huge, with fearsome weapons. How can the tiny people of Boldre Wood hope to defend their homes against this monstrous invader?

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Kate begins her senior year of high school, hoping for normalcy, but a new threat has hit the once-peaceful town of Rosewood. Teens are being kidnapped. When one victim is discovered dead in a nearby park, Kate starts her own investigation, wanting to help eliminate the threat.She uncovers a world of unnatural beings and an ancient power source linked to Matthew Cavanaugh. With Adam and Alyssa’s help, she unlocks more secrets of the town’s past. Making matters worse, she discovers disturbing revelations within her friends’ family. Their involvement with ‘all things weird’ sets her on edge. But she needs their help to save the town, so she chooses to set aside her doubt and trust them. Kate finds herself on a split path between two possible futures. One will keep her with those she’s come to love, and the other will take her, alone, into all new territory. As the choice becomes clear, the harsh reality crashes her world around her. Her life isn’t what she thought it would be, but if she doesn’t embrace her destiny, she could lose everything.

Bel and Heln take a shortcut and are arrested - and that's only the start of their problems.Chased into underground ruins by clay golems, they have to survive on their magic and their wits. The magic around them is older, and the symbol of the forest god is everywhere. Is it just a terrifying tale, or is the forest god real? And what else could be lurking, down in the dark?The Rising Stones is a story of family, friends, love, and deeply buried secrets.

Magical blackouts, forest creatures in the walls, and people going missing.Ihale City isn’t safe anymore.It’s been months since the events in the tunnels and Heln can’t let his guard down. Something is out there, just waiting to spirit him away outside of the walls and into the domain of the forest god. He finally gives in.Bel and Rhyss follow.Out in the forest things are not what they expected. Heln is called on to help with the very thing that has been causing Ihalins to leave the city for a thousand years. Something dark that lurks in the heart of the old city.Will he be able to stop it? What could be at the center of it all?Will Bel and Rhyss’s friendship, driven by the danger they’re in, blossom into something more?The Abandoned City continues the story of Ihale - and the secrets hidden there.