Books with title Emma's New Beginning

Kendra’s in high school! New Beginnings abound at home, school and in her relationships. Things are changing at lightning speed.She’s saying hello and embracing new relationships while at the same time coping with heart breaking good-byes of others.Patrice convinces her to give an “old friend” another chance. This coupled with an unplanned chain of events catapults Kendra from a place of obscurity to center stage at school. Center stage has her wedged in a long standing school rivalry which will divide and test her loyalties. And threaten her new relationships.Kendra isn’t the only one embarking on new beginnings. A health scare creates a new family dynamic but even with a new dynamic it’s the same family drama. The family tension escalates and bubbles over and with Meme gone Papa is left trying to keep the family intact.High school brings about “A New Katrina” and Avery and Jamie don’t escape the winds of change blistering through either.New Beginnings is the next chapter in the Growing Pains Series. Kendra’s journey continues. In Book Two she finds her own place her own voice in her own way.Book Two will have cheering and eagerly anticipating Book Three!!Scroll back up and get your copy today!

This is the first book of Stryders Odyssey, a SciFi / Fantasy series that will take the reader on adventures to other worlds. When Sam goes camping in the woods near his home town of Big Bear, it is a time when he comes in contact with more than just the local wildlife. He travels through a portal and learns that the human spirit exists on other worlds besides his own. For this discovery will take him to the nine colonized planets on a search to find those with the rings of council. But be mindfull of the ‘Order for they have their own agenda. [Ver 2-14]…and did I tell you there be Starships!For readers with a heart for adventure…Excerpt...Their uncertainty was resolved when the ship broke through the water surface and took to the air. Sam and Cody could now see the stars high up in the sky and within a fraction of a second they became just that bit clearer, and a little nearer. Then the ship slowly rolled over by ninety degrees and that was when the Pacific Ocean came into view. The entire Pacific Ocean. For this view was not what would be seen from a plane but was the actual seascape as observed from a low Earth orbit.The ship confirmed the boys growing suspicions.“Relocation complete. One hundred mile orbit attained.”Excerpt...Cassie (short for Cassandra) had just arrived as one of the replacement astronauts to the International Space Station. This being her first night in space, she found it very hard to sleep; she was simply too excited. She floated round the station until she came to the Tranquility Module. She recalled that this was where the Cupola observatory was located. Now the Cupola was a dome that was comprised of seven distinct windows and they gave the viewer one of the best views of the Earth from the station’s 230 mile high orbit.As she stared down upon the Earth a glint of something yellow caught her eye. She thought nothing of it at first but afterwards she wished she had triggered the high speed cameras. For it was only when the band of yellow light coalesced into a solid object that looked remarkably like a starship that it really got her attention. It was at least a hundred miles away and so quite far, but then the craft itself was very large, even for that distance.Before she could catch herself she blurted out, “Please tell me somebody else saw that?”Her request was answered by silence.But that night she saw an up-close version of the same event replay itself in her dreams. There was a flash of yellow that came together to form itself into a sleek starship which drifted by the International Space Station as she herself was looking out the Cupola. As it passed by it then did a graceful 90 degree counter-clockwise roll. She knew there was some writing down the side of the vessel but she just couldn’t manage to resolve the letters. Also, for some reason, she felt she had seen two young men standing in the forward section.The ship steadily disappeared into the distance.Cassie turned over in her sleep.“I wonder who I ask for a transfer?” she murmured.Excerpt...Up the proa rose as it was carried towards the crest of the great wave. In a trice Great-grandfather had overcome his fears and for the second time in his life, with adrenalin now surging through his old body, he found new strength to surf his outrigger at the top of the hundred foot rogue. Keanu looked back and up at his ‘Grandfather just as an intense flash of light illuminated the wave and the entire night sky. The picture of his Grandfather riding his outrigger would now be forever etched in his mind for all time.Keanu had seen his Great-grandfather act out his tale. It hadn’t been imaginary fiction after all. It had all been for real. It was then when Keanu moaned to himself. For now, just like his Grandfather and his Great-grandfather, he too had a story to tell, and he also knew from first-hand experience that no one he told would believe him.

Lauren is a teenager. She likes sewing, music, geography and can memorise almost anything in lightning speed. She is also autistic and starting at a new school after bullies made her decide to move away from her old one. She needs a fresh start. A new beginning. Lauren has never felt so nervous as she walks through the school gates her first day. Will she make friends?Join Lauren as she navigates friendships, lessons and learns the important of being herself. This is Lauren's story.

Alex Franklin was your typical science fiction nerd who loved video games and got picked on in school. He had just graduated from high school and lived at home with his mother and annoying brother since his father had passed away when he was young. After a trip to the game rental store turns into a day he will never forget, he is recruited for a secret government program and has to make the decision to leave his planet and join an organization in charge of keeping people safe from hostile aliens.After his journey takes him to a planet where nothing is what it seems, he discovers that no one can be trusted. Not to mention the girl he meets there that he is drawn to for reasons he can’t explain.Fantasy comes to life as he discovers he possesses superpowers, and he will have to learn how to control them if he wants to survive. He meets new friends, makes new enemies, and finds that all of the things he has dreamed about are more real and deadly than he thought. As he takes a journey among the stars, he will learn the real truth behind the death of his father, and his epic story is only beginning….

Despite living amongst luxuries only the son of eccentrically rich socialites could have, Scott Benson is miserable and alone. With limited connection to his parents and even less to his classmates, all Scott can do with his life is narrate someone else’s. Sitting alone in the cafeteria, he meets Tristan, a charismatic stranger with an insatiable desire for excitement. Within one week, Scott is catapulted into the center of his high school’s most elite social circle; a new world is suddenly opened to him and it’s all he can do to follow along. He gets his first taste of drugs and alcohol, watches as his new best friend dates the girl of his dreams, and finds himself the pawn in the manipulative games of others, all in the name of good fun. Yet even as Scott is trying to make heads or tails of the chaos, Tristan’s appetite for adventure only continues to grow, escalating from the innocently daring to the recklessly destructive.

After the death of her mother, twelve-year-old Rina is rejected by her other relatives and goes to live with a wealthy couple in New York, where she finds a way of life very different from what she has ever known.Rina had to take a train, a plane and a cab all by herself to a new big city. There she would begin her life again. Would she like her new school? Would she find friends? Would her new adoptive parents be kind to her? Her only sister had been flown across the ocean to England. Would she ever see her again?Readers will love this spunky twelve-year-old redhead who learns to embrace the love of her new family while never forgetting her past.

First in a set of stories which will appeal to a wide audience, from children to the elderly. They are inspired by my own life experiences to an extent; as the central character Bobby is based around the dog my husband and I lost to cancer in June 2012. I started writing them approximately seven years ago, and feel the time is right to publish them now, in Bobby's honour.