Books published by publisher Armstrong Valley Publishing

Do you wonder what your destiny will be? Are you ordinary or can you be a hero? An ancient key holds the power to save the world it lies hidden with the newly constructed Great Wall of Ancient China Join the Chosen as they race through time in an adventure packed with riddles, codes, and mysteries to solve along the way. Match wits with ancient geniuses, legendary soldiers, and extraordinary counselors. They aren’t the only ones who seek the Key. Cunning enemies hide among the ancient, searching for the Key to keep for their own diabolical desires. Can the Chosen get the Key before it’s too late?

In this retro autobiographical fantasy, emerging “Valley Girl” Marianne discovers a matrix of hope and prosperity which characterizes her culture of 1960s suburban Southern California. Through this lens, she is able to see the good which survives anguish and neglect, and to celebrate the time’s evolving compassionate optimism. Power to the Valley Girl. She understands the world as a galactic crystal of which humanity is a scintillating facet, in need of polishing from time to time.

This children's book is the first of many adventures for Noah and his collection of unique animals. Get to know each animal and use your imagination to wonder what kind of situations they might get into and what lessons they might learn from God. This book tells how all the adventures began for Noah, his family, and his animal friends. This first story tells how Noah loses his job at the boat building factory and how he and the animals seek God's wisdom for the solution to his unemployment. By working together, they find the answer. Illustrations are original drawings by the author. Some contributions by her niece and nephew.

The Family Blood ties continues in this 9th installment of the vampire versus vampire saga. Life couldn’t be any worse… Caught in a web of Deanna’s making Tessa struggles to find her role in this new reality. Cody can’t believe how quickly his life has deteriorated. He believes in Tessa. Knew she had what it took and is desperate to do what he can to save her. Only there are secrets, and like poison, fester until they are released. Tessa and Cody have to find their way through the maze of lies and deceit to a safe haven on the other side. The whole gang is caught in life and death struggles as they near the end of this war. But how close are they and who will survive?

The mindbending second book in the Quest for the Lost Keys series. Jake, Li, and Gene are back! A fallen world...A lost Key... A year has passed, now the Chosen travel back in time to recover the second Key of Knowledge. This time they find themselves in a war-torn country, seeking a Key lost to the world, given over to evil. Follow along as they race against the forces of evil, match wits, and do battle to protect humankind. "An adventure wrapped in a mystery, inside a fantasy - with a dash of romance!" The Quest for the Lost Keys is a teen and young adult series with elements of adventure, fantasy, mystery, and romance brought together in a coming of age story that follows three teens as they grow from thirteen to eighteen who discover they are extraordinary in very ordinary ways. For fans of J.K. Harry Potter and Percy Jackson. If you enjoy J.K. Rowling and Rick Riordan, this will be a quest you won't want to miss. Book 2 of a complete 8 book series

Drawing is her world...but when her new pencil comes alive, it's his world too.Her...Storey Dalton is seventeen and now boyfriendless after being dumped via Facebook. Drawing is her escape. It’s like as soon as she gets down one image, a dozen more are pressing in on her. Then she realizes her pictures are almost drawing themselves...or is it that her new pencil is alive? Him...Eric Jordan is a new Ranger and the only son of the Councilman to his world. He’s crossed the veil between dimensions to retrieve a lost stylus. But Storey is already experimenting with her new pencil and what her drawings can do - like open portals.It ... The stylus is a soul-bound intelligence from Eric’s dimension on Earth and uses Storey’s unsuspecting mind to seek its way home, giving her an unbelievable power. She unwittingly opens a third dimension, one that held a dangerous predatory species banished from Eric’s world centuries ago, releasing these animals into both dimensions. Them... Once in Eric’s homeland, Storey is blamed for the calamity sentenced to death. When she escapes, Eric is ordered to bring her back or face that same death penalty. With nothing to lose, can they work together across dimensions to save both their worlds?This is book 1 in the series and ends on a hook, that is picked up in book 2.

Blood doesn’t just make her who she is…it also makes her what she is. Like being a sixteen-year-old vampire isn’t hard enough, Tessa’s throwback human genes make her an outcast among her relatives. But try as she might, she can’t get a handle on the vampire lifestyle and all the…blood.Turning her back on the vamp world, she embraces the human teenage lifestyle–high school, peer pressure and finding a boyfriend. Jared manages to stir something in her blood. He’s smart and fun and oh, so cute. But Tessa’s dream of a having the perfect boyfriend turns into a nightmare when vampires attack the movie theatre and kidnap her date.Once again, Tessa finds herself torn between the human world and the vampire one.Will blood own out? Can she make peace with who she is as well as what?

Left behind. Scared. And getting really pissed off.Tessa and her friends were supposed to be on their way home. On their way to safety. Instead she wakes up alone, with her friends kidnapped. Targeted and hunted, Tessa goes on the attack, desperate to find her friends and family. But her attackers want her throwback genes and will do anything to have her locked down in their lab.Caught in a dangerous maze, Cody is torn between helping his fellow captives and finding Tessa. He’s young to have the connection that’s growing between him and his best friend’s sister. But any future they might have is in jeopardy if they can’t stop the blood farm from taking over the humans…and his people.Jared is free at last, but he can’t stop thinking about what he went through at the blood farm and those who helped him. Then he finds out something personal that so horrifying, he has to act…even if it means walking back into the place he swore to never return.These three need to be strong…the war is far from over…and they are right in the middle of it.

When Tessa rallies friends and family to find her missing date, they uncover a secret...and start a war that causes ripples in all aspects of their lives. A vampire with throwback human genes. Sixteen-year-old Tessa finds more than just her friend in this journey...she also finds herself in need of rescue ... Imprisoned, she has to find a way to escape and reunite with her family before this war takes out those she loves.The youngest of his ancient line. Eighteen-year-old Cody descends from flyer vampires wants Tessa back at his side where she belongs – even as he struggles with conflicting emotions about his best friend's kid sister...A human determined to protect his people. Seventeen year-old Jared thought his life was over then he finds out that his rescuers are vampires...how can he trust them? And then he finds out the truth about Tessa...and that she's been taken, too...Three brave souls struggle as war breaks out around them...a war that shows them no mercy.