Books with author Lena North

It probably started with the dragon. I am Vilda, the wild girl with the flaming red hair and glittering green eyes. I’m different, and I paid for it every day of my life until Valerian of the Waterfolk attacked and I had to flee into the mountains with Troy and our former best friend Susannah.We ended up in Dragoncourt, the stronghold of the Dreughan, where my life became completely different, and a lot more complicated in so many ways. Instead of struggling in a muddy little corner of the world I suddenly worry about finding out who my parents really were, how to get out of being promised to the beautiful prince, how to hide that his cousin can speak inside my head… and what happens when Valerian takes me up on that challenge I issued?Step into the world of the Dreughan and follow Vilda’s journey full of laughter, adventure, and romance in the first book in the Dreughan trilogy, set in a medieval paranormal fantasy world from a thousand years ago. The Dreughan trilogy can be read standalone, but it’s also the starting point for Ms. North’s Urban Fantasy series "Birds of a Feather".

What do you do when you're wilder than everyone?Wilder’s wonderful grandfather is dead, and so is her mother, but Grandpa Willy gives her one final gift in his will – the knowledge that her father is only her step-father.Once she meets Hawker, the scary man who turns out to be her real dad, her life takes an unexpected turn. She finds out about a heritage she never knew she had, and secrets from the past are uncovered as she fights to save her part of the world from destruction.And then there’s Mac, with his green eyes and a soft voice that flows through her like sweet honey. He’s there to help Wilder when she needs it the most, and as she struggles with how to fit into the group of people around her dad - having Mac in her life becomes more important with every bad thing that happens.“Wilder” is the first in the Birds of a Feather series and a spin-off from the Dreughan trilogy. It’s set in modern time and can be read stand-alone.

Annie has secrets.She takes a job as stable hand at Double H, but she's really there to let her unusual abilities help the group around Hawker Johns in their search for the man responsible for death and destruction - Cameron Strachlan. Abuse victim. Murderer. Lost boy. The devil. Annie has more reason than most to hate the man, but that is a secret too.It's a surprise to find Olly at Double H, and nothing about him is like she'd imagined. Olly is hard and angry, and his eyes almost as black as the tattoos on his neck. She knows immediately that she's looking straight into the eyes of the Reaper.As they spend time together, the Olly she thought he would be slowly begins to show again, but there are still doubts at the back of her mind... What will happen when he finds out? Can he handle her secrets?Reaper is the fifth and final book in the Birds of a Feather series, a young adult/coming of age series with paranormal elements, full of laughter, mystery, and romance.

Jiminella “Jinx” Sweetwater is a genius.She’s a scholar, an inventor, hardworking and loyal, and well known in the scientific circles around the University in Prosper City.Being smarter than everyone else might seem like a good thing, but it isn’t. At least, it isn’t to Jinx who has two friends, a small condo, and no life.After a fight with her best friend Wilder, it just gets worse. Someone breaks into her home and when her parents show up in all their hippie-like glory, Jinx has had enough and escapes to a small village by the sea.Suddenly, Jinx finds herself involved in village life, living with the unpleasant Mrs. Fratinelli and trying her best to juggle all the things that seem to end up on her plate. And then there’s calm, cool and gorgeous Dante – Snow’s boyfriend, who seems to see right through the shields Jinx has put up around herself, straight into her mind.

Getting kidnapped and falling for the wrong guy will complicate things. Mary had it rough growing up, and when it finally looks like she’s getting her life firmly back on track, breaking up with her boyfriend starts a string of events that threatens to bring Mary to her knees.Fortunately, there are good people in her life who will do everything in their powers to help her when she needs it. Mary’s girlfriends, Jinx and Wilder are there for her, and after she’s rescued from being kidnapped, Carson and Bo take her into their home, becoming the family she always wanted but never seemed to get to keep. As the group around Hawker Johns hunt the men who wanted to trade Mary for the valuable crystal from the mountains, she slowly recovers. Then life throws her another few curveballs, and it looks like she’ll lose everything yet again.Mary is resilient and used to restarting her life from nothing, but when it looks like she’ll also lose the man she loves, maybe the happy girl has just had enough?Picture this is the third book in the Birds of a Feather series, a young adult/coming of age series with paranormal elements, full of laughter, mystery, and romance.

Snow’s best friend is a bird. An osprey, to be specific.Everyone knows Snow’s parents died a long time ago, and she has perfected her happy smile and girly giggle so no one suspects that she hides a darker side of herself deep inside. No one, except her bird – and Nick, who always seems to know how she feels.Then Hawker Johns blackmails her into joining his covert group of protectors. The imposing sheriff from Norton sends Snow to the Islands to investigate Jamie Jamieson, one of her friends and a man she dates casually, and once the first fury has passed, she’s eager to go. Mostly so that she can come back and shove Hawker’s suspicions down his throat. Things are not what they seem on the Islands, though, and when Snow has been shot at, almost drowned and fallen through the roof of a cave, she starts thinking about her life, and her past.Then she suddenly finds herself in a situation where she has a tough choice to make. Will she follow her heart or the pull from her family and friends? And will she ever find peace with her past?Black Snow is the fourth book in the Birds of a Feather series, a young adult/coming of age series with paranormal elements, full of laughter, mystery, and romance.

Everyone knows I’m the good girl. I am Susannah, and I’m beautiful, accomplished, calm and polite. What they don’t know is that I’m also another girl, one who is hot-tempered, brave – and an expert at throwing knives.We settled in Dragoncourt, and I’m happier than I’ve ever been. Or, I would have been if it wasn’t for the dumb prophecy about the prosperous times which predicts that I’m bound by fate to Kee, the beautiful Dreughan Prince. The golden one. The only one who acutely dislikes me.Then disaster strikes and I have no choice but to let go of the good girl. I have to lie and deceive my way straight into Pantano, the stronghold of the Waterfolk, where I’m forced to do bad things in the name of love and fury. In the end, it’s time to decide; Am I the good girl or the wild one? Or can I be both?In the second book in the Dreughan trilogy, set in a medieval fantasy world from a thousand years ago, we follow Susannah through adventure and romance. It’s a story about daring to be yourself, and the lengths you will go to save the ones you love.The Dreughan trilogy can be read standalone, but it’s also the starting point for Ms. North’s Urban Fantasy series "Birds of a Feather".

I’ve already killed for my family, and I’d do it again, without remorse. I am Troy, the happy young man full of joy and laughter. The harmless one, who can send arrows into the heart of a traitor with deadly precision. When my Dreughan family sends a group of people to Pantano, the main village of the Waterfolk, I was selected to go with them. I was excited to go because I’ve longed to see the great waters, but things end up a little more complicated than I thought.It turns out that, whether I like it or not, I have more than one family.I was having a good time with the Waterfolk together with my warrior friend Mal and Drake’s pretty sister Rinna, when we started to suspect that someone deliberately tries to re-kindle the war. Then I must risk everything, and if I succeed it will help end the war once and for all, but as family and friends turn their back on me, it looks like I’ll have to pay a high price…Troy’s story about laughter, courage and sacrifice is the third and final book in the Dreughan trilogy, set in a medieval fantasy world from a thousand years ago. It’s a story about a young man’s willingness to die for the ones he loves as he fights to find a place to call home and a family that is his.The Dreughan trilogy can be read standalone, but it’s also the starting point for Ms. North’s Urban Fantasy series "Birds of a Feather".

Loyalty. Trust. Magic.It all starts in Courage when Vilda finds an injured dragon in a cave close to the settlement where they live. This kicks off a series of events that takes the three on a journey through the mountains to a village called Dragoncourt, the stronghold of a group of people who call themselves the Dreughan. They find out about an ancient prophecy, and slowly, they start to understand the secrets of the Dreughan.In Susannah's story, Reason, the adventure continues when Keeghan, the golden one, the beautiful prince of the Dreughan is taken by the Waterfolk. There are traitors in their midst, but with the help of unlikely allies they continue their struggle to find a way to end the war that never ends.Finally, Troy, the boy full of Joy tells his story, about family and trust, loyalty and betrayal - and about the prosperous times that will come when the prophecy is fulfilled.The Dreughan trilogy can be read standalone, but it’s also the starting point for Ms. North’s Urban Fantasy series "Birds of a Feather".In case it bothers you: The Dreughan trilogy is a tale about love, friendship, and family. There's no explicit sex in the books, but the characters do use crude language, including the f-bomb, occasionally and when it is called for.

It's the annual midwinter gathering, and Sissa Raudulfsdatter is waiting to be led out to the altar where she will be sacrificed. Determined to face her fate with dignity and courage, Sissa stands courageously in the little shed they have locked her into, but finally, she faints.The morning after the sacrifice she wakes up, still alive. Torbi, Sissa's brother, lets her out, but he’s shocked to see her because they all thought Sissa was killed the evening before. Soon, they discover that another girl was sacrificed instead. The village is in turmoil and Jarl Ingolf, who performed the sacrifice himself, is devastated.Einarr, the Jarl’s charismatic and dangerous brother, is given the task to find out what happened and because of her ability to figure things out, he asks Sissa to help him.One of the suspects is Einarr’s only son Josteinn; the boy Sissa has had her eyes on her whole life, but there are others who could be guilty, and as Sissa and Einarr find out more about what happened, things start to become dangerous.When Joss starts to pay her attention, Sissa has to decide how she wants to live her life. Can she be content living her life in the village as Josteinn's thrall, his property? Or have the gods carved different runes of fate into the roots of Yggdrasil for her?

Getting kidnapped and falling for the wrong guy will complicate things. Mary had it rough growing up, and when it finally looks like she’s getting her life firmly back on track, breaking up with her boyfriend starts a string of events that threatens to bring Mary to her knees. Fortunately, there are good people in her life who will do everything in their powers to help her when she needs it. Mary’s girlfriends, Jinx and Wilder are there for her, and after she’s rescued from being kidnapped, Carson and Bo take her into their home, becoming the family she always wanted but never seemed to get to keep. As the group around Hawker Johns hunt the men who wanted to trade Mary for the valuable crystal from the mountains, she slowly recovers. Then life throws her another few curveballs, and it looks like she’ll lose everything yet again. Mary is resilient and used to restarting her life from nothing, but when it looks like she’ll also lose the man she loves, maybe the happy girl has just had enough? Picture this is the third book in the Birds of a Feather series, a young adult/coming of age series with paranormal elements, full of laughter, mystery, and romance.

Jiminella “Jinx” Sweetwater is a genius. She’s a scholar, an inventor, hardworking and loyal, and well known in the scientific circles around the University in Prosper City. Being smarter than everyone else might seem like a good thing, but it isn’t. At least, it isn’t to Jinx who has two friends, a small condo, and no life. After a fight with her best friend Wilder, it just gets worse. Someone breaks into her home and when her parents show up in all their hippie-like glory, Jinx has had enough and escapes to a small village by the sea. Suddenly, Jinx finds herself involved in village life, living with the unpleasant Mrs. Fratinelli and trying her best to juggle all the things that seem to end up on her plate. And then there’s calm, cool and gorgeous Dante – Snow’s boyfriend, who seems to see right through the shields Jinx has put up around herself, straight into her mind.