Books with author Maurice

Magical twins Faith and Hope, Soleil's children, became the adopted children and goddaughters of Jamanda. They are growing, becoming more independent, building and enlarging their personal circle of friends, and gaining more and more in magical strength and wizardly power. When their friend Dr. Laura Landaverde runs into serious trouble with the law and a particularly ambitious prosecutor named Courbevoie who is determined to lock her up for life, ruin her successful medical career and everything she has worked for, Faith and Hope assure Dr. Landaverde that they wouldn't let it happen to her. Everyone has secrets and so does Chief Assistant District Attorney Patricia Anna Courbevoie. Prosecutor Courbevoie is tough, wins all her cases, smashes and chews up all her opponents and adversaries. But she has a deeply hidden secret inside of her. Faith and Hope use their magical power to make Prosecutor Courbevoie's past catch up with her. Courbevoie then faces a dilemma: she either has to drop all charges against Dr. Landaverde or Jeremiah Johnson and his insane cousin that everybody calls Cercueil and who drives around in a former funeral home car for the dead will come back and finish a job they started twenty years ago. This time, Faith and Hope promise Prosecutor Courbevoie, no one will ever find her. No person has pronounced the names of Jeremiah Johnson or Cercueil in front of Ms. Courbevoie in nearly twenty years. She never told anyone. She was totally shocked to hear little Faith and Hope talk about Jeremiah Johnson and Cercueil. And she wondered how they knew about an event that happened so long ago in another state when they weren't even born yet, and that she never brought up with anyone around her in North Carolina. The mere mention of those names was enough to make her almost pass out. What would Prosecutor Courbevoie do? How would Faith and Hope ultimately save Dr. Landaverde? What would happen to the newly renovated courthouse of Judge Harris Dogman III? What would the Goddess-mother Jamanda and the water people do to support Faith and Hope in their efforts to save Dr. Laura Landaverde?

Against all odds and against the adversity of Chief Egbo and the Old Witch Esusemilore, Cindy finally returned to the United States from Haiti, safe and sound. She even came back with Soleil, the woman she saved and befriended in Haiti who ultimately was responsible for her introduction to Sea Goddess Jamanda. They are now all living, relaxing and taking a long deserved break at Cindy's big family home where she grew up in North Carolina, along with Faith and Hope, Soleil's twin daughters. Cindy is still waiting for Jamanda's promises to come to pass so she may have children of her own. But Jamanda, like all Gods and Goddesses, has many enemies, adversaries, rivals and foes. And they are vicious and deadly. Some of them are determined to see to it that Cindy will never bear or give birth to Jamanda's children. They swore it. And they will do anything and everything within their magical and wizardly powers to prevent it and stop it.In this chapter of the "Jamanda's Children" series, the enemies of Jamanda sent the laba-laba woman from Addis Ababa to take Cindy's life and deliver her soul and spirit in their hands so she may never have the children of Jamanda and add to their list of nemeses, worries and sleepless nights. Will the laba-laba woman succeed? Will Goddess Jamanda sit idly by and watch her archenemies take the life of her protégée Cindy that she pledged a lifetime of her divine protection to after the two sealed a sacred covenant at the beach at night in Haiti where Jamanda even came out of the water? How will Goddess Jamanda react to the mission of the laba-laba woman?

Kris and Kate Spunky are twin eight year old girls who live in Dallas, Texas. Leila Cutie, their bff, lives next door and they have been waiting all summer to start the third grade and meet their new teacher.The good news is that the meanest teacher in the school, Ms. Hinkle, has left Pleasantville Academy. But wait, rumor has it that she may not have left at all! Will the third grade turn out to be the worst time of their lives? Read the Spunky Twins - Ms. Hinkle and the First day of School to find out!