Books with author Linda Maree Malcolm

CHAPTER ONE - THE DANCE OF THE FAIRIES: Intuition told Bobby that she should wake up as there was something going on that she should know about. She sat up in her bed and listened — yes there it was, beautiful music that seemed a great distance away. Who would be playing music at this time of the night? Certainly not her mother who was probably asleep in her own bedroom, just down the hall. Bobby did not feel frightened as she threw back her quilt to go and investigate. It was extreme curiosity that drove her and as she tiptoed down the hall she noticed that the music was becoming louder:“We come, softly through the night, as evening fallsbehind us. Our footsteps leave no mark upon thesnow. Let your spirit go it will find us.”Bobby descended the stairs and walked into thekitchen, listening for the melodious singing again. It had become far away again and she realised that she had somehow taken the wrong direction:“We come adorned in spider web and dew, throughwoodland to the meadow. We come luminous andbright, dancing with the light and the shadow.“The summer moon is calling us to play, a sacred light to guide us. The wild music leads us in a trance, spinning to the dances inside us.”Bobby climbed the stairs again and holding onto the old banister looked around her. This didn’t make any sense. She could hear the singing, it was all around her and yet it seemed to be coming from nowhere. She went to the bathroom and noticed that the sounds became closer:“The air is warm and echoes with the sound of laughter rising higher. With drums and bells we sing into the night dancing in the light of the fire.”She looked above her and the realisation dawned on her. It wasn’t in her home at all. Or at least not on this level or the one below. It was in the attic. It had tobe — there was no other explanation. Bobby suddenly remembered that there was a pull-down ladder from the attic in the walk-in linen press which was located right next to the bathroom. She tiptoed quietly into that room so as not to wake her mother and, without turning on the light, felt about above her for the string that would pull the attic ladder down. There it was. She gave it a gentle tug but it didn’t move. It was quite stuck and the thought occurred to Bobby that it had not been used in some time. She ignored her logical side askingthe question, how did whoever is in the attic get in? This was no time for logic. She used all of her strength to pull at the string andjust when she thought it would never budge, it came open, just a crack at first pouring years of dust and goodness knows what else onto her upturned faceand into her eyes, nose and open mouth. While she brushed and wiped at herself Bobby became aware of two things. The light that now emanated from the crack in the ceiling was almost as bright if not brighter than ordinary daylight. The singing and music was very close now and she had been correct in her assumption that it was from the attic:“We weave a music curiously pure, a crystal song Even if Bobby was afraid, which she wasn’t, to see what was above her, there was no way she couldresist the magnetic pull of the music. She had become completely entranced by it. The leading voice was the richest and purest she had ever heard.“We come, ancient as the moon, as new as every season.We come as fire as icicle and leaf; suspend your disbeliefand your reason.”Bobby pulled at the ladder which became straightened out in one smooth action. Quietly climbing the rickety stairs she took a deep breath to prepare herself for what she might see above her. As her head entered the blinding light emanating from the attic, Bobby squinted to adjust her vision. She gripped the top rung tightly and just in time too because what she saw took her breath away to the point of making her almost topple back down the ladder. In the centre of the enormous attic was what at first glance seemed to be a massive bonfire that stretched at least three metres.

When Bobby's grandmother was thirteen, she and seven friends disappeared for a period of six days. No-one in town ever talks about this mystery but Bobby wants to know what happened then and if it was the reason why her grandmother always had a sad, faraway look in her eyes. Red-haired, hot-tempered Bobby is an ultra-modern twelve-year-old girl from a Celtic background with ideas that could be described as alternative. Raised to be open-minded and confident by a single, working mother who holds angel card readings and is interested in New-Age beliefs, Bobby is fiercely independent in her own thinking and behaviour. When she meets another home-schooler, David, who is from a big, highly educated Italian family and has been raised to have more conservative, mainstream beliefs and old-fashioned values, it is difficult to imagine how they could ever be friends. However, the do have something in common. David too has a mystery that he wants to solve about his own heritage. Bobby is determined that she will solve the mystery of the missing children whether the wary David is prepared to be involved or not. But David does not have much choice. With the help of a crystal ball possessing magical powers that Bobby has just stumbled across, the two are transported through a wormhole into another time dimension where they make startling discoveries, not only about their own ancestries but also about themselves. Join them on an adventure where an evil workhouse and her orc slaves threaten to overrun the idyllic island paradise which has now become their new home.

The Blue Seal of Trinity Cove is book 2 in this engaging, exciting, scary series. Young readers will greet with excitement the return of Bobby, David, and the professor. The two heroes are thrown into the world of time travel once again, but what do they find? Their Garden of Eden island appears to be in chaos. Their beloved Crone near death. The wicked Workhouse Oracle and her orcs need to be stopped in their tracks. Bobbys’ crystal ball is wanted desperately. What is the Blue Seal and where can they find it? What does their time travel reveal about the island natives? The illuminating but horrifying tale that Madden relates to the children exposes truths they had never known before. Bobby and David’s relationship becomes closer as they experience many challenging encounters and find themselves bonding in a way they would never have guessed when they first met.