Books with author S. Wright

She’s a lonely daydreamer until ancient powers transport her to another realm. Can she save a legendary kingdom from the approaching darkness? Kyah ignores her boring life by keeping her head in the clouds. The twenty-five-year-old orphan is on the verge of being fired from her dead-end job for excessive daydreaming when one of her fantasies becomes a reality. A shimmering portal forms before her very eyes, and an unbelievable green-skinned man shoves Kyah through to the other side. She's barely had time to comprehend this new world when a group of ancient beings send her on a sacred quest…Bestowed with previously-dormant special powers, Kyah must brave a strange land of living myth to save King Arthur and release Avalon from the grip of darkness. As she struggles to understand who and what she truly is, the former daydreamer has no choice but to stand up to the forces of evil. With time running out, can she save the land and thwart the darkness or will her latest fantasy become her last?Children of Avalon is the first action-packed epic in the Traveller series. If you like quirky but legendary characters, myths with a twist, and fantasy with a dash of science fiction, then you’ll love S.E. Wright’s thrilling novel! Buy Children of Avalon to enter a land of legend today!

This is the book that transports you back in time to 1609. You will journey across the wild ocean with all the drama and excitement of a Hollywood movie!As you read, you will feel the sea spray and the power of nature. You will get to know the stories of the passengers, their fears, their loves, their hatreds and their secrets. How many could survive in the middle of the ocean in a flimsy wooden ship in hurricane force winds?How could order be maintained in the face of mutiny, murder and betrayal?Could true love withstand the turmoil of religious difference and murderous secrets?How is this exciting story of disaster and destruction related to the Colonization of America, the founding of the Virginia Tobacco Company and the marriage of the Indian Princess Pocahontas? This is one of the most amazing and less well-known true stories of the attempt to colonize America.

Her hair smelled like ripe oranges. It teased and beckoned me forward. I came to stand beside her and took one of the gently waving amber locks into my fist. Her head turned towards me, but she closed her brilliant eyes and let her lashes sweep over whatever emotion that might have been blooming inside her head. Without real intent, my fingers left her hair and touched her chin.“Why do you close your eyes?”“You frighten the hell out of me, Michael.”Sarah and Michael have faced deadly challenges. He gave himself over to his worst enemy to save her life. When an old friend comes to his rescue, her methods may bring an end to the Michael that Sarah Wood has come to love. The secret to his release may give rise to a lethal monster who poses the greatest threat that Sarah has ever faced. This fourth book in the series contains language that some might find offensive, sexual scenarios not appropriate for children and violent situations. It is roughly the same length as the other books in the series (36,788 words as calculated in Microsoft Word 2010.)

What do you do when pirates kidnap you for a ransom and a mad scientist injects you with a powerful and inevitably fatal concoction of aether? You get revenge. Matilda Katrine Myra is no one special, but her pirate abductors don’t know that. When they boldly kidnap her from an airship and sweep her away into the deadly wasteland of mutants and poisonous radiation, her life becomes a day to day battle to evade death.And she’s much closer to death than ever. A mad scientist has injected her with toxic condensed aether, the air of the gods, and now she’ll need frequent doses just to survive each day. With a dwindling supply, she’ll have to battle mutants, mad scientists, pirates, and the spirits of the dead. The tool of her fate, a gauntlet feeding the condensed aether into her veins, is also a potent weapon. It can focus the aether into a death ray. She can also see the dead, women who suffered the fate Matilda is fighting to avoid.Along with a wasteland traveler and his clockwork dragon as her only allies, and despite the powers gifted to her by the aether, the one thing she doesn’t have is time.With passion and intrigue, adventure and swashbuckling in an apocalyptic world, Apocalypse Witch is a dystopian steampunk adventure of non-stop excitement. This novel collects the three books of the Apocalypse Witch Trilogy, Apocalypse Witch, Memento Mori, and Shadow Falls.

A Science Fiction Steampunk AdventureMatilda Katrine Myra is not from nobility. Her parents have spent their savings to send her to New Terros to continue her education and in hopes of a better future. It’s not the life she wants.Everything changes when her airship is attacked by pirates. With a hasty lie told to protect another girl, Matilda finds herself abducted and thrust into a world beyond the safety of her civilized world. Time is running out, and Matilda must find a way to escape before the pirates learn the truth of her ruse. With a mad scientist, spirits, and her own mind working against her, escaping may be the least of her worries. Apocalypse Witch is a serialized steampunk sci-fi. 13,600 words.

"It's intense, surprising and keeps you on the edge of your seat." 5 stars "This is a story that will pull you in and won't let go. You will *need* to finish it." 5 stars"If you like dark, intense, futuristic sci-fi, you will enjoy this book." 4 stars"Very well written and great plot." 5 starsThe world has changed. People live forever, but children are a thing of the past. To meet the demands of want-to-be parents, children have been replaced with androids... very life-like androids. Josh, a twelve-year old boy, is hit by a truck, leaving him badly damaged. Instead of paying the outrageous cost to fix him, they dump him in the wilderness. Broken Things follows Josh and his journey to a home that doesn't want him anymore, through a setting that darkly mirrors our own. Along the way, he must face the fears of abandoned children, from the wilderness to the city streets, and the predators that dwell in both. His only salvation may rest in finding a single person that cares.If you enjoy science fiction and suspense with many twists and turns, then you'll love Broken Things. "The story was quite interesting, well written, and has a nice surprise twist at the end." 4 stars"It was a gripping thriller and I loved the ending. Very awesome book!" 5 stars "...the book tugged at the heart strings." 5 stars (Amazon UK review)

Book 2 in the Apocalypse Witch Saga - Memento Mori - A Science Fiction Steampunk Adventure The tale of the Apocalypse Witch continues…Matilda is a young woman, just entering adulthood. At one time, she had her entire future in front of her. But now she is dying, her life is slipping away by the very thing keeping her alive – aether. To make things worse, what little time she has left is not her own. Twelve angry apparitions of murdered women seek revenge, something they can only get through Matilda. Now, Matilda must travel across a savage wasteland of mutants and monsters to seek out the scientist who poisoned her and killed the others – before her time runs out.Apocalypse Witch is a serialized steampunk sci-fi.

'A darkly clever teen murder mystery [...] that succeeds in undermining everything you've come to believe and trust. S K Wright pulls off a difficult trick with apparent ease' Crime ReviewIf I'd told the truth, it would have been fiction.Everyone loves Eva. Beautiful, bright, fun, generous - she's perfect. So when her body is found in a ditch in the local woods the only thing anyone wants to know is: Who could have done this?It has to be Luke, her boyfriend. He has the motive, the means, the opportunity and he's no stranger to the police. Even though the picture is incomplete, the pieces fit. But as time passes, stories change.Who could have done this? You decide.It Ends With You is clever and compulsive. It challenges preconceptions, makes you second-guess yourself with each chapter, and it holds an uncomfortable mirror up to the way societies and systems treat outsiders.

She’s a lonely daydreamer until ancient powers transport her to another realm. Can she save a legendary kingdom from the approaching darkness? Kyah ignores her boring life by keeping her head in the clouds. The twenty-five-year-old orphan is on the verge of being fired from her dead-end job for excessive daydreaming when one of her fantasies becomes a reality. A shimmering portal forms before her very eyes, and an unbelievable green-skinned man shoves Kyah through to the other side. She's barely had time to comprehend this new world when a group of ancient beings send her on a sacred quest…Bestowed with previously-dormant special powers, Kyah must brave a strange land of living myth to save King Arthur and release Avalon from the grip of darkness. As she struggles to understand who and what she truly is, the former daydreamer has no choice but to stand up to the forces of evil. With time running out, can she save the land and thwart the darkness or will her latest fantasy become her last?Children of Avalon is the first action-packed epic in the Traveller series. If you like quirky but legendary characters, myths with a twist, and fantasy with a dash of science fiction, then you’ll love S.E. Wright’s thrilling novel! Buy Children of Avalon to enter a land of legend today!