Books published by publisher The Vanguard Press

Certain doors open to grand adventures. Edward opens the first door while traveling on an overnight train to Chicago. Upon entering a private car, he encounters the mysterious Egyptian "M" and Theo, his sphinx-like companion. Both are much more than meets the eye.Edward's second door, hidden away in a Chicago alley, leads into a magical sanctuary. Greeting Edward warmly are M and Theo. A frosty greeting comes from Glenda, a tall, challenging Nordic girl. Theo discloses his true self to Edward and offers him a challenge to join M and Glenda as his allies against an ancient foe.Edward accepts and months of intense study follow as Edward and Glenda develop special abilities. Their abilities are tested in a Chicago museum as a keystone is being lowered into an ancient arch. Reading the arch's hieroglyphs, Glenda declares that the portal is cursed. Could an ancient curse come alive in modern-day Chicago?

Eat, or be eaten. That is the world Yin lives in. Yet, despite her circumstances, Yin is a kind person - if a little restless. When, in a day, her kindness makes way for anger and she kills to protect something that belongs to her, the veneer of her small town life falls away, and her world is exposed as a lie. In one moment, her biggest dream becomes her worst nightmare, and her only family becomes a complete stranger. Yin is thrust into a world of magical creatures and complicated clans where everyone she meets is either trying to kill her, or convince her of a different and more bizarre truth.Not only does she have to decide who she wants to believe, but also who she wants to be. Join Yin on her journey to discover her truth in the fantastical The Lady of the Desert: book one of The Chronicles of Yutae series, where she discovers that family does not need blood, but that blood can change everything.

Charlie Daniels is more than six feet tall, allergic to almost everything, and has a pet dinosaur at home. His life in Arizona is relatively normal. That is, apart from the nightmares Charlie has...But when his dinosaur, Trike, gets kidnapped by a strange old lady and her cat-like sidekick, Charlie and his misfit friend Arty are sucked into a story bigger than both of them. Risking everything to rescue Trike, Charlie and Arty are flung into the past, landing in the chaos of New York City, 1865.Dodging the mysterious Nasten Cobblestine, and avoiding the perils of New York's nastiest street cleaners' strikes, test Charlie's wits as well as his courage. All he wants to do is reunite with his dinosaur and somehow find a way back home...As Charlie searches for Trike, he draws dangerously close to P.T. Barnum's eerie museum and the creature that lies within. Will he find Trike and get home alive? And who is the Ice Lady of his nightmares?

When Cassie falls head over heels in love with Daniel, she knows it will lead to disaster one day. Although she loves him with all her being, there is one problem...her being is not of the Earth, but of somewhere far more sinister. You see Cassie, otherwise known as Regan, is quite literally the Devil's daughter and that could spell the end for not only Daniel, but the whole human race.