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Sixty minutes is not enough time to save your kingdom.

The people of the Six Lands call them Turn-Born—the children born on the turning of the seasons. They possess mystical abilities. But these powers always come with a drawback.

Princess Vonna Auclair was born on Winter Turn. She possesses speed and strength, but only for one hour a day and she never knows in advance which hour it will be. All she wants is to use her powers to serve her kingdom and make her mother proud doing it. But as tensions rise between the Turn-Born and the rest of the population, things go awry.

Her overprotective mother assigns her a guard day and night. A budding romance complicates her emotions. A sinister Turn-Born dogs her steps as she quests for a powerful artifact. And a power-hungry queen marches toward her kingdom—capturing the Turn-Born to do her bidding. On top of all that, she battles her own bitterness over her hourly limitations.

Can Vonna stop the villain one hour at a time?

Status: Submitted and waiting results from publishers and contests

Emmett Tate struggles with dyslexia and social anxiety. When he bombs the state reading test, he risks failing fifth grade altogether. Now he must face his social terror and find a partner for the final project (which just had to be a book presentation), while enduring relentless heckling from Nicholas Berg, the school bully.

When his neighbor, Mrs. Perdisco, gives him a wooden box that opens a portal to a magical place called the Land of Ela, Emmett’s adventures there, hunting down definitions of new words, give him just what he needs to overcome his school struggles. In the Land of Ela, he matches wits with a huge toad, navigates the booby-trapped cave of an artistic giant, meets a sentient leafy maze that gets him in trouble with an angry prince, and befriends the ruler of Ela’s realms.

But when a mysterious stranger named Mr. Decipi teams up with the school bully to steal the box, only Emmett can stop them. If he doesn’t, the realms of Ela will be destroyed. But to keep that from happening, he’ll have to give up the wooden box and his only way into the magical land. Can he face his social terror and complete the final project without it?

Status: Completed and resting

Rain Martin lives at The Dahlia, a brothel on a space station. Her adoptive mother, the proprietor of the brothel, gives her the choice to leave, but she has no other prospects and holds little hope of breaking free. Her biggest dream is to go to Earth for the first time and visit a law firm that specializes in finding orphans’ biological families.

When she catches an agent spying on her home, she discovers the government suspects someone at The Dahlia of running a crime operation. She agrees to help the agent find the crime boss, but she fears what it will cost her—the only family she has and the only home she’s ever known.

With the mysterious crime lord after her and her own heart torn between the people of The Dahlia and the agent she is quickly falling for, Rain must decide what home, family, and love really mean to her. And where she can find them.

This science fiction YA romance retells the biblical story of Rahab and the Israelite spies.

Status: Brainstorming and Prewriting