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Books in Guardian of the Vale series

  • Mark of Four

    Tamara Shoemaker

    (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Oct. 21, 2015)
    Seventeen-year-old Alayne Worth is an Elemental Water-Wielder. All she wants is to master her talent and live a normal life, but the sudden escape of a feared criminal leaves her family reeling and threatens to keep her from achieving her dreams, especially when the criminal's reach pushes too close to home. Secret pasts, strange powers, and tense relationships weave a tangled net around her. As she leaves home to cultivate her skills at an Elemental training center, she clashes with a disturbing reality: both good and evil forces covet Alayne's unusual gifts, and each side is willing to do almost anything to obtain them. As Alayne confronts the battle for the power she possesses, she must discover the truth of who she is. Air-Earth-Water-Fire Four Elements Four Powers Four Paths MARK OF FOUR
  • Shadows of Uprising

    Tamara Shoemaker

    (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, March 2, 2016)
    Alayne Worth possesses the Vale, an object of mysterious power coveted by other Elementals. Danger shadows her every step when this secret spreads. As she grieves the sudden death of her boyfriend at the hands of the notorious Shadow-Caster, Simeon Malachi, Alayne unravels the mysteries of the Vale and her past. When she returns to Clayborne to pursue her Elemental training, Alayne is plagued by disturbing visions that predict a dark future. As an ominous Alliance of pure-blood Elementals spreads intolerance across the Continent, Alayne’s visions show evidence of the truth--and reveal a deadly danger to her loved ones. Alayne must conquer her fears and use her power to muster an uprising that will obliterate the only way of life she's ever known.
  • Guardian of the Vale

    Tamara Shoemaker

    (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Sept. 22, 2016)
    Clayborne Training Institute, a school for teen Elementals, has fallen beneath a sweeping nationwide coup led by the Elemental Alliance, a party of power-hungry sectarians. Having narrowly escaped the fight for the school, Alayne Worth, Quadriweave and possessor of the Vale, flees Clayborne with twenty-three desperate students seeking the headquarters of the Last Order, the underground organization planning to wrest control from the Alliance. Danger shadows her steps as the struggle for the Vale and its power stalks ever closer to home. Conflicts, perils, enemies, and rebellions push Alayne toward a cataclysmic battle that threatens to rend CommonEarth at the seams, and the Vale is the linchpin that decides the victory or the defeat. When those closest to Alayne threaten her possession of the Vale, will she and the world in which she lives survive the fallout?
  • Return of the Sentinel: Book 2 Guardians of the Gate

    Richard Blackburn

    Paperback (Lachesis Publishing Inc, March 13, 2015)
    She’s back! Jenny can’t believe she’s going back to the year 1347. Again. But she has to rescue her friends in the village before the Black Death devastates England. At least now she knows what she’s getting into when she travels through the secret time portal at Stonehenge. Sort of. Jenny is about to find out that she’s got a lot more in store than just saving her village from the plague. Luckily, her mentor Gwenelda figures out what Jenny’s up to and arrives to help the headstrong apprentice. What they don’t know is that the wicked wizard Rudigor has set a terrible chain of events in motion that could wreak havoc around the world. But this time the threat is not only in the past—it’s in the present too, and Rudigor’s evil has spread far beyond the Middle Ages.