Books with title The Black Ninja: Book One in the Ninja Series

Fifteen year old Jim would rate a triple black belt. That is if he had undergone any formal training. He hadn’t. His father had taught him, since the age of four. However, that hardly qualified him to become a Superhero.Neither did the gift of a small black mouse for his birthday. Or did it?The rumours of a huge black panther stalking the city streets were becoming more and more prevalent. A strange animal that only attacked criminals in the very act of their crimes. Then Jim’s life changed, and so did the rumours

Orphaned at birth, Rebecca’s life had been anything but easy. From run-ins with the law to being bounced from one foster home to another, trouble and misery had followed Rebecca like a shadow. But now, entering her senior year of high school, Rebecca’s life finally had a few bright spots—a kind elderly couple had taken her in, her grades were on the rise, and she’d found a best friend. Except for the vivid night terrors that continued to plague her sleep, her life was becoming rather ordinary. That is, until she met Maverick—a tall, handsome stranger who said he held a secret to her past and that he could transform her greatest fear into her greatest gift. But to uncover this secret, Rebecca would need to embroil herself in a violent feud that has raged for centuries—a vendetta that could cost her everything, including her life. Faced with a terrible choice, Rebecca must decide whether to keep her newfound sense of normalcy and the relationships with those she’d come to love or risk it all and throw her life back into chaos in order to discover what she truly is...Tainted.

Shamira is considered an outcast by most, but little do they know that she is on a mission. Kids on Mars are disappearing, but Shamira decides to use the criminals’ most unlikely weapons against them—the very kids of which they have captured. In order to succeed, she is forced to trust another, something she is afraid to do. However, Valens, her connection to the underworld of her enemy, proves to be a useful ally. Time is slipping, and so is her control on the power that resides within her. But in order to save her brother's life, she is willing to risk it all.

Sheltered and determined, 18-year-old Shayna Dare wants more than anything to be like those around her --- but she was genetically modified at birth and has the ability to move things with her mind and generate powerful energy beams with her hands. When her powers blossom beyond her control and she accidentally destroys an office building, she must decide whether to go underground or stay behind and risk being branded a threat to the world she so hopes will accept her. Finding shelter and support among others of similar abilities, Shayna desperately seeks a cure for her powers while learning to harness them – and slowly begins to accept herself in the process. She eventually gains the confidence and skill to become part of a varied and dynamic team to fight off the doctor who created them and is now bent on controlling them.G.E.M.S. tells the story of a young woman who must face the reality of who she is and shows that sometimes who you want to be, isn’t as good as who, or what, you already are.

Have you ever felt that part of you is missing?Lonely gamer Griffin is haunted by nightmares of a monster that killed his mother. When he is transported to a world of magical creatures called Shadows, everything he knows is turned upside down.Griffin is rescued by an eccentric dragon-parrot named Cirrus and they instantly sense a connection to each other- a secret locked in their pasts that could change both of their worlds... forever. The unlikely pair are forced to flee, pursued by an Empire that views any relationship between human and Shadow as a dangerous sickness.Hunted through floating cities and forests of giant proportions, Griffin and Cirrus must discover the truth about their connection before they are locked away for 'treatment', abandoned to a terrifying fate.Shadows is the first book in the Shadows series, for fans of Pokemon and other tales of unlikely friendship between human and monster, but set against the backdrop of a darkly thrilling mystery. Interview with the Author Q: Is it true you started writing the Shadows Series when you were nine?A: It is! I think it was around that time that I started feeling the lonely feeling, that sensation of missing something, but I wasn’t quite sure what. So I started telling Shadows as bedtime stories to my godsister, and it grew from there. I wrote countless drafts in the back of the class at school, and when I was fourteen I tried to get it published. It took a wee bit longer than that for it to get out into the world, but it feels so good that it’s here now and people are reading it and each having their own unique experience of it. Q: If you had to compare Shadows to something, what would you compare it to? A: I hear people saying it reminds them slightly of Saturday morning cartoons, and it definitely carries that inspiration; I grew up with Beyblades, Pokemon and those sorts of anime on TV, and also those old movies on VHS like Dragon World and The Legend of Galgameth, where the young human befriends a magical creature. Personally I think those comparisons exist because the soul-linked magical creature thing, what I like to call “monster buddy” fiction, is less of a genre these days- so I’m hoping that Shadows helps bring it back! I’d love more authors to be putting out books like that so I can read them. Q: So what genre does Shadows fall into then? A: It’s a young adult thriller, amongst good company like the Hunger Games, the Maze Runner and the Chaos Walking Trilogy. It’s definitely fantasy/science fiction, but it’s based in our own modern time. I see it as less a typical fantasy adventure quest, and more so a thriller where the characters are running for their lives, being hunted, trying to survive just long enough to unravel whatever the heck the conspiracy is they’ve gotten themselves caught up in. It’s emotional, thrilling, laugh-out-loud (I hope), and a lot of fun.Q: Be honest. Is Griffin Cameron based on you? A: No. He’s much shorter.Q: Anything else to add?A: Read Shadows for Cirrus, the Fruit-Loops loving, slightly unhinged dragon-parrot. See, you’ve got to read it now. Thanks for reading!

The Black Ninja was tired. The past few months had been very difficult. The crime wave that was spreading across the city had kept him out, night after night. He knew that he could not go on the way he had been, but it was impossible for him to consider giving up. The people of the city depended on him. For two years now, he had patrolled the streets, fighting crime and defending the innocent with his partner, The Panther, at his side. The appearance of a new Hero made things much easier, but when The White Ninja disappears, lost while saving a mother and her child from a raging flood, hope of ever finding him begins to fade. Even the debut of the Ebony City Phantom does nothing to bring hope that the young Hero might be found. At least, not at first!

The Black Ninja was tired. The past few months had been very difficult. The crime wave that was spreading across the city had kept him out, night after night. He knew that he could not go on the way he had been, but it was impossible for him to consider giving up. The people of the city depended on him. For two years now, he had patrolled the streets, fighting crime and defending the innocent with his partner, The Panther, at his side. The appearance of a new Hero made things much easier, but when The White Ninja disappears, lost while saving a mother and her child from a raging flood, hope of ever finding him begins to fade. Even the debut of the Ebony City Phantom does nothing to bring hope that the young Hero might be found. At least, not at first!