Books with author Melissa Gunther

Celia Fincastle is headed back to Renasci, ready for another year. This time she has to complete her family tree, but she doesn't have much information to work with. Help comes from an unexpected source, but it's hidden by a series of clues, and Celia soon learns she's not the only one searching. Time is running out, and both her grade and her future hang in the balance - will she find it in time?

After what happened at school last year, Celia Fincastle is looking over her shoulder, wondering what might happen next. She's convinced people are following her - at Aunt Agatha's, at camp, even at school - but no one believes her, not even her advisors. Celia's friends tell her she's imagining things, but once they're on their class trip, they soon learn that everything can change in a flash.

Celia Fincastle thought she had everything under control, until it all came crashing down around her just before her fifteenth birthday. Now she has to do her best to pick up the pieces, put her life back together, and move on, which is difficult when she's cut off from the demesne for the summer. Stuck with Aunt Agatha again, Celia quickly realizes that things still aren't what they seem, and while she's seeking answers and information, those are in short supply.Returning to the demesne doesn't bring the result she expected, but then everything shifts again with the discovery of a new puzzle, one that has Celia looking for pieces of a different sort. Her search brings her to new people and new places, but now she has to balance all the demands on her time and attention even as she struggles to master new abilities and keep up with her schoolwork. The stakes are higher than ever and Celia can't afford to fail, because now she's searching for more than just answers.

A mysterious book, unusual abilities, and a school that isn't quite what it seems - Celia Fincastle is about to step into a whole different world, and she has no idea what awaits her. She's got new friends and some big expectations for her future, but someone doesn't want her to stay. Celia must figure out who's behind the plot and stop it - fast - because there's more at stake than she realizes...

The news Celia Fincastle received at the end of school last year came as a surprise, and it isn't the last surprising information she'll get before she heads back to school for another year at Renasci. The summer brings challenges right from the start, and by the time she gets through the Summer Tournament, she's just hoping she makes it to the start of school without anything else falling apart.School isn't any easier, though, and Celia struggles to cope with all of the changes. She needs to find the remaining clues from her parents, no easy task when she can't let anyone find out what she's really doing. She also has some decisions to make, questions with no easy answers that will affect the rest of her life and possibly the lives of those around her. But there are other things going on, things that Celia can't quite see yet. Something's brewing and Celia knows it, and this time the price they'll all pay might just be too high.

Celia Fincastle is thrilled to spend the summer at Maddie's house, far away from Aunt Agatha. But it appears she's traded her insufferable aunt for Maddie's grandfather, who goes out of his way to let Celia know that he doesn't like having her around. His reasons for disliking her are just the first in a long line of surprises for Celia as she starts her fourth year at Renasci.As secrets begin to leak out, Celia still has to focus on her schoolwork, which includes new independent studies that increase her workload even further. One particular secret comes as a huge shock to Celia, which leaves her feeling betrayed by those she trusts most and pushes her to find answers on her own. A series of letters promises information about her grandmother and maybe even her parents, but taking the offer might have consequences she never imagined...and she has no idea that more lies still lurk in the shadows.

Neeghan Fincastle spent her first year at the Renasci Academy for Gifted Students thinking she didn’t have the gifts she needed to be in her coterie, but the book she found on her first night back at home changed all that when it revealed more of her talents. Now she has to catch up on everything she missed during her first year, figure out how to use her newfound abilities, and get ready to go back to the school – and friends – she didn’t think she’d see again.Except there’s a problem: her gifts don’t want to cooperate. No matter what she does, how hard she tries, she can’t get her newly discovered talents to work. It’s not just over the summer, either – things don’t go any better once she’s back at school. She’s still struggling with her schoolwork because she can’t do the things she needs to do for her classes, even though everyone around her seems to handle the assignments with ease. Neeghan needs to figure out what’s going on with her abilities so she doesn’t fall behind, but a certain book might have more to say about the situation... and once again, it might change everything.

Erin Morgan has always loved fairy tales, so of course she’s excited to see the castle ruins during her family’s summer vacation road trip. What she doesn’t expect is to find herself in a real castle that seems eerily similar to the ruins she’d seen from a distance before while everything familiar is gone. She has no idea where she is or how she got there, and no idea how to get home.As she explores a stunning castle that’s full of unexpected surprises, Erin tries to adjust to life in a place that’s so very different from her normal life in just about every way possible. Surrounded by knights, ladies, and a princess who quickly becomes a close friend, Erin’s connections with the people around her grow deeper with every day she spends in the kingdom of Ner, all while she searches for a way home to her family. Leaving her new friends will prove more difficult than she anticipated, and her time in Ner has a more lasting impact on her than she ever imagined it could.Join Erin on her adventures as she goes Into The Castle and Back Again, and then finds it all Reopened once more in this collection of the first three books in the Through The Door series.

Summer hasn’t started the way Celia Fincastle expected, and her surprise visitor is just the beginning. She might not be at school, but that doesn’t mean she gets to relax. With more decisions to make, more changes to cope with, and more answers to find, there’s plenty of work awaiting Celia before she and her friends return to Renasci for their final year.Celia knows she has to be ready for the showdown that’s looming, but she finds it hard to focus on what she needs to do. Everything is conspiring to distract her, especially once rumors and accusations start to appear around the demesne. Celia still has plenty of questions and too many unknowns, and she’ll have to trust those around her if she wants to find the answers she seeks. Only one thing remains between Celia and her final goal, but if she wants to defeat her adversary, find her family, and take her rightful position in the demesne, it’s going to take everything she has.

Erin Morgan had a fantastic adventure, but now it’s over, and she knows she’s never going back through the portal that took her to the castle in Ner. Determined to put her traveling behind her and resettle in her real life, Erin does her best to enjoy the rest of her family’s vacation and get back to normal.Her plans change when she gets home and finds herself in possession of an interesting journal that mentions the people and places she encountered in Ner. When she reads of a danger that threatens the people she’s grown close to during the short time she’s spent at the castle, she knows she must find a way to either warn or help them.Now, instead of trying to figure out how to get home, she’s trying to figure out how to get back to Ner. Her first roadblock is getting permission from her parents, who aren’t exactly thrilled with the idea of her traveling through a portal to a faraway castle. If she manages that, she still has to figure out how to unlock the portal and open it and make it back to Ner in time to help her friends…and hope she gets there before it’s too late.

Author’s Note: Neeghan’s Journey is a sequel series to Celia’s Journey, and as they are intended to be read in order, this series is written under the assumption that you have read the entire Celia’s Journey series before starting on this one. If you are reading them out of order, expect to be somewhat confused by characters, terms, events, locations, etc., that were introduced in the previous books.- - - -Neeghan Fincastle has seen a lot of changes in her life over the past year, and she’s struggling to keep up with all the new things around her. Of course she’s happy to get to know her sister, Celia, and her grandfather, but everything is different, and she’s finding it’s not always easy to adjust.Now she’s about to face another change as she gets ready to attend the Renasci Academy for Gifted Students, the same school her sister attended. She’s excited to discover more about her gifts and learn how to use her talents, but this change is more of a challenge than all of the others. Everyone around her keeps telling her she’ll do fine, but when things don’t go quite as she imagined they would, she’ll have to decide what she really wants and find the place she truly belongs... even if that’s not the place she always thought it would be.

Erin Morgan has always loved fairy tales, so of course she's excited to see the castle ruins during her family's summer vacation road trip. When she hears they're going to visit the ruins and take a tour, even spend the night in a nearby bed and breakfast, she's even more enthusiastic. But then something happens.Suddenly everything familiar is gone: her parents, her brother, the car, even the parking lot is nowhere to be seen. She's not really sure where she went or how she ended up in a real castle that seems eerily similar to the ruins she'd seen from a distance, but now she's surrounded by knights and ladies, with a princess telling her they'd known Erin would arrive there that day.All Erin wants now is to find her way home, but no one in the castle seems to know how she can get there. They say they need her help, but Erin's pretty sure that won't happen. After all, how can she help them when she doesn't even know where she is? There seems to be more to this castle than Erin ever thought, and it's up to her to figure it out and find her way home.