Books published by publisher Simmons

Five towers. Five colors. One way out. Cipher risks everything to reach the Red Tower. He searches for the person who was once the most important in the world to him. He has left the friends who helped him discover himself. He has left a place where he had control, where his powers were the mind and the wind. Now Cipher must learn new powers to survive. He must channel his passions to thrive. And he must rise to the top of another tower before he can enter the Scouring again, where deeper secrets await.

Five towers. Five colors. Only one way out. Cipher wakes up in the Blue Tower with no memories of his former life. He discovers he is not alone. Dozens of boys and girls must compete in a battle called the Scouring against four other towers - Red, Green, Yellow, and Black - each with its own rules and powers. In his first Scouring, Cipher captures Emma, a girl from Yellow, whose memories from Victorian England move Cipher to uncover his own past. He must learn who he was before he can figure out why he's here...and how to get out.

When the peaceful kingdom of Fermicia is enslaved by a power-hungry renegade, its only hope lies in a band of unlikely heroes: two children whose musical abilities allow them to harness the power of Ragesong, and their shape-changing guides. Jake starts his first day of junior high completely oblivious to the fact that he has been chosen for something incredible. That same afternoon, he learns that he has been marked as one with the power to save an entire kingdom. Through the course of his journey, Jake discovers that his advanced musical abilities are peculiarly connected to a mysterious power known as Ragesong. Joined by a shy, young girl with similar musical talents and two Changelings that hold a fierce loyalty to their homeland and king, Jake must learn to harness this ability in order to survive the dangers of a hostile new world.

Fresh out of the foster system eighteen-year-old Jai is on a mission to find her birth parents. What finds her instead is a whirlwind of fierce secrets, magical powers, and a force of anger hidden deep within her soul. As her world unravels, she struggles to balance love and loss while maintaining her inner strength. Will she be strong enough to fight for those she loves? Or will she lose faith in herself as truths are revealed, leaving her vulnerable to the shadows lurking all around her?

The Green Tower captures Cipher, ties him in vines, and hurls him into the wild. New dangers lurk in the forest, where the strong prey on the weak. Hunger looms. Tribes battle over every scrap to survive. Cipher will need everything he has gained in the Blue and Red Towers and more. He must forge new alliances and face hard truths to stand against his most powerful enemy yet.

Callidora is an Atlantian noblewoman and member of an elite guard whose purpose is to keep Atlantis pure...until her life is turned upside down by the birth of a son. Phoibos, bullied and taunted by other kids, is sure of one thing: something is wrong with Atlantis. Impure Atlantian-Human hybrids are ruining his city, and he'll stop at nothing to rectify that. Callidora is the only one who knows the truth of who her only son really is, and how dangerous he can be. Can anyone stop Phoibos before his need for purification brings Atlantis to the very brink of destruction?

From his presence earth and sky fled away. They stood before the throne, and books were opened. It stopped making sense months ago. Now he seeks the baby, but Elijah has Naomi. Does it even matter anymore? People keep saying the world's going to end. Elijah is starting to think they're right. He's also starting to think they're wrong about how. This is 2066, and the ending will be known.

From the Orient...with love. A heart-warming love letter from Ray Simmons, an American professor and ESL teacher, to some of the best students he ever had, Yen-Shen is the furthest thing from an academic treatise on folktales. It is not a book comparing Western and Chinese fairy tales, either. This little book is a lot less rigid and a lot more...intimate. It is the story of students sharing with a foreign teacher, one of the most beloved tales from their culture. People who ask questions about why the teacher didn't say this or lecture about that are completely missing the point. This was a fun night out for Ray and his Chinese students. The point was not academics or lessons. It was to get the students to have fun and speak English in an environment outside the classroom. That night out would prove to be a magical one that would inspire Ray to author this book to help give English teachers and others a glimpse of how wonderful teaching can be, with a handful of memorable incidents of some of students, sprinkled at the beginning of this book. It may be argued that some people will find this annoying and probably doesn't make sense from an economic viewpoint. But that's okay. This really isn't about the money. It was narrated out of love. If you want to get an idea of the possibilities of life as an ESL teacher living and working in a foreign country, particularly China, Yeh-Shen is the book you need to read!

Five towers. Five colors. One way out. Cipher risks everything to reach the Red Tower. He searches for the person who was once the most important in the world to him. He has left the friends who helped him discover himself. He has left a place where he had control, where his powers were the mind and the wind. Now Cipher must learn new powers to survive. He must channel his passions to thrive. And he must rise to the top of another tower before he can enter the Scouring again, where deeper secrets await.

Five towers. Five colors. One way out.The Green Tower captures Cipher, ties him in vines, and hurls him into the wild. New dangers lurk in the forest, where the strong prey on the weak. Hunger looms. Tribes battle over every scrap to survive. Cipher will need everything he has gained in the Blue and Red Towers, and more. He must forge new alliances and face hard truths to stand against his most powerful enemy yet.

All Emma Draco wants for her sixteenth birthday is a normal life. The only problem is that she's on the run with her younger brother and sister, not for what they've done but for what they are--shifters born with the power to transform into monstrous creatures. Hunted by a fanatical order of modern knights, the Draco children flee from their Chicago home to the shifter haven of Austin, Texas. There, Emma is lured back into danger when she meets Gabe, a teenage knight posing as a high school jock. When an ancient evil named Vesper rises against humans and shifters alike, Emma must decide whether she can trust not only her monstrous nature but the honor of her sworn enemy.At sixteen, Gabe is already a better hunter than any other knight in the Iron Brotherhood. But tracking Vesper across the world requires the help of Cat, a beautiful and treacherous shifter out for revenge. What she doesn't know is that Gabe has a monstrous secret of his own, one that will force him to either betray his fellow knights or destroy both Emma and Cat.