Books with title Caretaker

2015 Whitney Award Finalist in 2 categories: Speculative; Best Novel by a New Author2016 Utah Book Award FinalistFifty years in space—alone.Ethan Bryant was supposed to fall asleep on a ship leaving Earth and wake up fifty years later with his family on the planet Minea. Instead, after the ship’s caretaker—the lone human in charge of monitoring the ship’s vital systems—suddenly died, the ship’s computer locked Ethan out of his stasis chamber and gave him the job. That was five years ago. Five years of checking to make sure everything runs smoothly on a ship Ethan knows almost nothing about.Who wouldn’t dread the years ahead? Who wouldn’t long for their once-bright future now stolen away? Ethan is resigned to his fate, until the ship suddenly wakes up another passenger: a beautiful engineer who, along with Ethan, soon discovers a horrible secret—a navigation room hidden from even the ship’s computer. The ship is not bound for Minea—but to somewhere far more dangerous. With the ship nearing its sinister destination, Ethan soon learns he is the only one who holds the key to saving all 4,000 passengers from a highly-advanced, hostile alien race.

“These characters break our hearts and mend them all over again, reminding us that it takes courage to establish an authentic place for ourselves in the world.” —Kimberly Brock, author of The River Witch and 2013 Georgia Author of the YearA world-class ballerina loses her left leg in a horrifying accident, and with it, she loses her entire identity. After striving her entire life to establish a place in the grueling world of professional ballet, Sarah Gordon must reinvent herself. But as Sarah attempts to forge her new life, her husband’s guilt turns him into an overbearing and meticulous caretaker. The couple must navigate their new roles and find the perfect balance of love and independence, or risk losing their marriage completely.George Weinstein’s masterful contemporary fiction offers a provocative collision of trauma, tragedy, and hope. The Caretaker is a graceful romantic novel that bewitches readers with irresistible imagery and characters to fall in love with.OUR SOUTHERN FRIED GUARANTEEIf you wouldn’t enthusiastically recommend one of our books with a 4- or 5-star rating to a friend, then the next story is on us. We believe that much in the stories we’re telling. Simply email us at pr@sfkmultimedia.com.

2015 Whitney Award Finalist in 2 categories: Speculative; Best Novel by a New Author2016 Utah Book Award FinalistFifty years in space―alone.Ethan Bryant was supposed to fall asleep on a ship leaving Earth and wake up fifty years later with his family on the planet Minea. Instead, after the ship’s caretaker―the lone human in charge of monitoring the ship’s vital systems―suddenly died, the ship’s computer locked Ethan out of his stasis chamber and gave him the job. That was five years ago. Five years of checking to make sure everything runs smoothly on a ship Ethan knows almost nothing about.Who wouldn’t dread the years ahead? Who wouldn’t long for their once-bright future now stolen away?Ethan is resigned to his fate until the ship suddenly wakes up another passenger: a beautiful engineer who, along with Ethan, soon discovers a horrible secret―a navigation room hidden from even the ship’s computer. The ship is not bound for Minea―but to somewhere far more dangerous.With the ship nearing its sinister destination, Ethan soon learns he is the only one who holds the key to saving all 4,000 passengers from a highly-advanced, hostile alien race.

The youngest Caretaker to ever serve the dragons of Chemerie is now their last hope for survival. Morgan leaves her life on Earth behind at just sixteen when the magic of her maternal bloodline awakens within her. She devotes herself to wielding her powerful magic with skill, while navigating a new life of propriety, chivalry, honor, and devotion. Once confident in her abilities and her role as Caretaker, she embraces the love of her magical mate, Sir Alec. Though having his spirit bound to hers is joyful and empowering, their love makes him her greatest weakness.When an evil warlord brings dark magic and a vicious dragon army against her family, sword and might alone will not save them. To survive, her brethren must trust her skills enough to let her stand between them and the darkness. If she fails, her dragon brethren will be enslaved, her family murdered, and her country will fall.The Caretaker is the first in April C. Royer’s young-adult fantasy romance series, The Book of the Caretaker. If you enjoy epic adventure full of endearing characters, fast-paced action, tender romance, and relevant moral dilemmas, this series is for you. Launch yourself into this captivating fantasy series today!

Ethan Bryant was supposed to fall asleep on a ship leaving Earth and wake up fifty years later with his family on the planet Minea. Instead, after the ship's caretaker-the lone human in charge of monitoring the ship's vital systems-suddenly died, the ship's computer locked Ethan out of his stasis chamber and gave him the job. That was five years ago. Five years of checking to make sure everything runs smoothly on a ship Ethan knows almost nothing about.Ethan is resigned to his fate, until the ship suddenly wakes up another passenger: a beautiful engineer who, along with Ethan, soon discovers a horrible secret-a navigation room hidden from even the ship's computer. The ship is not bound for Minea but somewhere far more dangerous.With the ship nearing its sinister destination, Ethan soon learns that he is the only one who holds the key to saving all 4,000 passengers from a highly-advanced, hostile alien race.

The youngest Caretaker to ever serve the dragons of Chemerie is now their last hope for survival.Morgan devotes herself to wielding her magic with skill while navigating a new life of duty, propriety, and selfless love. Once she embraces the powerful link to her magical mate, their love makes him her greatest weakness.When an evil warlord brings dark magic and a vicious dragon army against her family, sword and might alone will not save them. To survive, her brethren must trust her to stand between them and the darkness.If she fails, her dragon brethren will be enslaved, her family murdered, and her country will fall.The Caretaker is the first in April C. Royer's young-adult fantasy romance series, The Book of the Caretaker. If you enjoy epic adventure full of endearing characters, fast-paced action, tender romance, and a strong female protagonist, this series is for you.Launch yourself into this captivating fantasy series today!

The youngest Caretaker to ever serve the dragons of Chemerie is now their last hope for survival. Morgan leaves her life on Earth behind at just sixteen when the magic of her maternal bloodline awakens within her. She devotes herself to wielding her powerful magic with skill, while navigating a new life of propriety, chivalry, honor, and devotion. Once confident in her abilities and her role as Caretaker, she embraces the love of her magical mate, Sir Alec. Though having his spirit bound to hers is joyful and empowering, their love makes him her greatest weakness.When an evil warlord brings dark magic and a vicious dragon army against her family, sword and might alone will not save them. To survive, her brethren must trust her skills enough to let her stand between them and the darkness. If she fails, her dragon brethren will be enslaved, her family murdered, and her country will fall.The Caretaker is the first in April C. Royer’s young-adult fantasy romance series, The Book of the Caretaker. If you enjoy epic adventure full of endearing characters, fast-paced action, tender romance, and relevant moral dilemmas, this series is for you. Launch yourself into this captivating fantasy series today!

“These characters break our hearts and mend them all over again, reminding us that it takes courage to establish an authentic place for ourselves in the world.” —Kimberly Brock, author of The River Witch and 2013 Georgia Author of the YearA world-class ballerina loses her left leg in a horrifying accident, and with it, she loses her entire identity. After striving her entire life to establish a place in the grueling world of professional ballet, Sarah Gordon must reinvent herself. But as Sarah attempts to forge her new life, her husband’s guilt turns him into an overbearing and meticulous caretaker. The couple must navigate their new roles and find the perfect balance of love and independence, or risk losing their marriage completely.George Weinstein’s masterful contemporary fiction offers a provocative collision of trauma, tragedy, and hope. The Caretaker is a graceful romantic novel that bewitches readers with irresistible imagery and characters to fall in love with.OUR SOUTHERN FRIED GUARANTEEIf you wouldn’t enthusiastically recommend one of our books with a 4- or 5-star rating to a friend, then the next story is on us. We believe that much in the stories we’re telling. Simply email us at pr@sfkmultimedia.com.

The story is set 150 years in the future. Earth is a governed by a one world confederation led by a group called the Caretakers. The Caretakers are a group of wicked rulers disguised as Ultra Green Earth Environmentalist from every corner of the world. The Caretakers have a plan to move the majority of the population of the earth to the moon, mars and the outer worlds to clean up the earth, and make it a total green world with all manufacturing ,mining and refinery processing to be done off world. The earth has a treaty with a group of Aliens on an exploration mission from the far side of our Galaxy. This treaty gives the Aliens large amounts of water for their trip back and, gives the Caretakers antigravity, life support technology, and the know how to make large space transports for people and material in months. The population is given its new living assignment by its usefulness to the greening the Earth project and its education level. The earth is now evacuated besides workers, non-grid tribal indigenous peoples, and the caretakers. Stanly the main person in the story is visited by a group of benevolent Aliens that have split from the main group they warn Stanly about the plans that the Caretakers and the Aliens have and the treaty that they have will bring the down fall to the majority of mankind. The Aliens that gave Stanly the information are killed horribly soon after. Stanly leaves with his work station with his chemical tanker space ship that will be reported stolen making him a top level fugitive. Stanly meets with a group of other fugitives and the last group of friendly Aliens that want to help save man kind to find a way to wage war against the enemy of man even if the other side has weapons of great firepower and, more ships but the group uses the materials they have to wage war, space tankers and super concentrated hydrogen gas that was harvested from Jupiter. The group is planning to ram the Alien Base, Caretaker Security ships and Bases with the gas laden cargo ship containers before the Caretakers gave the go ahead and let the Aliens attack the Human work colonies on mars were the majority of humans are. The Aliens plan on killing the most of the human population and take the rest back to their world as slave labor and experiments. The caretakers want to repopulate the world with their nobility blood and use the small groups of indigenous peoples and skilled workers for slave labor. The story ends with the liberators getting to Mars to start the attack a little too late a good part of the population have been harvested and heading to the other side of the galaxy. The mission to free the rest of the population of Mars was victorious with large losses on both sides. The Caretakers bases were attacked on earth but they still have power, weapons and the heart of the people who don’t believe they were part of the attack on mars. Stanley’s group of fighters have split in two groups one to chase after the Alien fleet in a stolen alien crafts to liberate the human captors and the other to fight against the Caretakers on Earth and, bring back the off world population to their home Earth.