A legend that will change the world.
It’s been 150 years since the Ahwahnee Indians lived where Yosemite National Park now stands. Their last surviving Chief appears to Elizabeth Hutchings, a sixteen-year-old high school student, the very day her parents die. Within 24 hours, she too is clinging to life as his whispers echo in her thoughts.
An ancient prophecy has begun. A plague rips through the world’s population, taking everyone and everything she has ever cared about. As agents of a mysterious organization called Meadowlark hunt her, she must find the strength to fight the infected even as she struggles to keep herself alive.
Just when she thinks she can’t go on, a man from her past arrives. He holds the key to understanding the prophecy. If she can unravel its secrets, she not only may change her own fate—but the fate of the entire world.
A Dragonfly spends most of its days beneath the water.
Sixteen-year-old Anna Page has lived her whole life at the bottom of a trailer park. The dreamcatcher in her bedroom was supposed to prevent bad dreams, but it doesn’t help when your whole life’s a nightmare. Instead of attending high school, she’s working at the local café to pay rent when an Ahwahnee Chief walks in.
He leaves a napkin on the table inscribed with one word, and the symbol of a dragonfly. A symbol Anna should’ve left alone. Instead, her new tattoo marks her as a target.
She awakes from a colonoscopy to find the doctor cowering on the floor and someone banging to get in. While she was asleep, a plague flooded the medical center and now spills out, washing away everything she has ever loved—leaving her with powers she cannot control.
A mysterious organization called Meadowlark will stop at nothing to capture her. With the help of a stranger, she can finally spread her wings and rise to become the Dragonfly. If his secret doesn’t get her killed first.
One end is another beginning.
Elizabeth and Annas world collide in this finial chapter of Earth. Elizabeth must complete her destiny. But Anna was sent to find her, not knowing why. When she discovers what the old woman, Spider Woman, has in mind, she too must stand beneath the river of glacier water flowing over Yosemite Falls and seal humanity's fate.
Where there is death, there is growth.
Lines rip though the sky of Raleigh, North Carolina near annihilating all of humanity.
Nineteen-year-old Arden survives with one of her sons.
When the monsters hidden in the corners of the wall steal him, she must trust an old high school friend and transcend into an ancient parallel world to save him.
But getting there has a price.
If Arden holds up her side of the deal, it could kill her and destroy the world.
If she fails, all hope of saving her son is lost.
Some legends never die.
Mary believes her whole life has changed when the popular kid's invite her to their Halloween party, but when she gets there, everything changes.
Instead of making new friends and making out with the hot guy, she is trapped in a bathroom as the others whisper, Bloody Mary.
*Short story featured in The Horrors We Hide Anthology.
Julie Embers
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Young and New Adult Author of suspenseful speculative fiction. Myths and legends blend into modern conspiracy theories and leave you turning pages for more.