Books published by publisher Living Arts Books

MIKE HAMEL'S MATTERHORN, THE BRAVEPITFALLS, KIDNAPPING, AND INSPIRATIONMatterhorn the Brave is an exciting new juvenile fiction series about four young children who are recruited to keep an eye on the portals of earth that connect all realms of space and time. Jewel Heist, book four in the Matterhorn the Brave series, opens with the kidnapping of princess Jewel by a wraith from First realm. Matterhorn and the baron follow the ransom instructions to the Bermuda Triangle, and arrive just in time to make the lunch menu of a tiger shark. Sara the water nymph gets them safely to an island, which turns out to be the home of fierce cannibals.And that's only the beginning of their Caribbean troubles!With the help of a merboy Bin-dle, the Travelers locate a sunken portal that holds the key to many of the Triangle's mysteries. And when Nate the Great and Queen Bea unexpectedly show up, the action swings into high gear.A category-five hurricane ruins their first attempt to find Jewel. During their second try, the Queen is severely wounded. An their third, most daring effort, puts the entire planet is peril!Learn more at www.MatterhornTheBrave.com

Andrea Havilland is a witch down to her boots and she knows it! The problem is . . . does everyone else?There is only one way to be accepted as a true witch – pass The Witch Trials!When young witch Andrea Havilland enters the annual ‘Witch Trials’ to prove to everyone that she is the witch she knows she is, the arrival of her arch nemesis, Chantal Morningstar, puts the kibosh on the proceedings.However, despite Chantal’s dastardly plans, she forgets the old adage, “What goes around comes around”.She would do well to remember this in the future. - the best laid plans of mice and men have a nasty habit of backfiring!

From the imagination of story-teller, Graham Murray, comes a new tale of adventure, suspense, drama, love and loss.Following a freak accident when a strange and unexpected storm forces teenage friends, Sara and David, into the forest to seek shelter, they find themselves transported to a strange and wonderful fantasy land where magic really exists and fairy tales are just a way of life.Here they come across an eccentric old man, who promises to help them get back to their own world. But this is no simple task. Not only must he protect them from the clutches of the enraged Queen of the Forest and her feared army of elves, he has to help them recreate the right conditions to get them back to their own world. And to do this they require something very rare and very special indeed; a secret that has been kept under lock and key for hundred of years in the most inaccessible of places.To make matters worse, the Queen’s elves are not the cute little people that we may think they are.After a series of adventures and challenges in the enchanted forest, the trio finally has the Queen’s castle in sight and the object of their desire is within reach. Or is it?When Sara suddenly vanishes from right under their noses, they realize that their problems are only just beginning.In “The Secret of Moaning Rock – Part 1”, of ‘Adventures in the Land of The Enchanted Forest’, we discover just how evil fairy tales can really be and meet some weird and wonderful characters along the way; some of them very familiar to us all, but also very different. These are not fairy tale creatures as we know them in our world.Will Sara be rescued? Will they be able to obtain what they need to get them back to their own reality?Not if the Queen can help it! They have ventured into her land and as far as the elves are concerned, they are food!Their only hope lies with their new friend - the only one who can help them to safety and has agreed to assist them in their quest to return home.