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They Left Magic in Their Wake

At the end of the world, there will be magic.

 

Earth has been decimated by climate change. Humanity has fractured into isolated tribes. A child born in the southwestern desert of the United States appears to have magical powers, a strict taboo in his part of the world. In four other locations, people discover... 

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Shade

Thanks to her offbeat mother, Shade’s full name is Galactic Shade Griffin.  Having a name like that while being the new girl in school is pretty much catnip for bullies.  The summer before Shade’s junior year of high school, her mother breaks up with yet another boyfriend and moves them once again to a new town ...

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Shade and the Skinwalkers

As if being a ghost whisperer in a trailer park isn’t weird enough, skinwalkers take things to a whole new level of strange.

Running away from her demons rather than facing them, Shade’s mother moves them once again to a new place—this time a trailer park on the outskirts of Roswell, New Mexico. Hiding in plain sight among UFO festivals ...

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Shade and the Castle by the Sea

With all the other fish in the sea, your first crush needn’t be human.

 

Shade and her best friend, Kai Zahnii, begin their freshman year at Ocean View College. Located on a secret island off the coast of California, Ocean View is a special place specifically designed to train students with magical abilities. Shade is ...

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Shade and the Pure-Blood Faeries

All that glitters isn’t gold. All that shimmers isn’t innocent.

 

In her sophomore year at Ocean View College, an institution for training those with magical abilities, Shade is assigned to the Ghost Whisperers House. Likewise, her friends are assigned to houses dedicated to their unique types of magical ability ...

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Shade and the Vampires of Romania

The undead cannot be saved. Once bitten, you walk among them.

As a foreign exchange student in Romania, Shade must deal not only with ghosts, but also with the undead. Her first semester trains her to deal with the in-between worlds, including that space between the dead and the undead. No amount of training can prepare her, however, for stepping into a world where vampires ...

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Shade and the Crystal Orb

Crystal orbs are tricky things. They can be windows into the future or nothing more than smoke and mirrors..

During the first semester of her senior year at Ocean View College, Shade takes a class on the kelpies and begins researching their situation. This group of magical beings is confined to a very small area of the Earth: the lochs and pools of Scotland ...

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Shade Series: Books 1-3 Boxed Set

Shade: Girl on a hero’s journey, going from smart-ass to badass.

 

This boxed set contains the first three books in the YA Paranormal Mystery / YA Urban Fantasy Shade series...

 

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Shade Series: Books 4-6 Boxed Set

All that glitters isn’t gold. All that shimmers isn’t innocent.

 

This boxed set contains the final three books in the YA Paranormal Mystery / YA Urban Fantasy Shade series...

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Shade Series: Books 1-6 Boxed Set

Shade: Girl on a hero’s journey, going from smart-ass to badass.

 

This boxed set contains all six books in the YA Paranormal Mystery / YA Urban Fantasy Shade series...

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Shade and the Secrets of Summer Camp: A Shade Series Novelette

When a ghost appears inside a virtual reality game, summer goes from fun and games to something deadly serious.

 

Although Shade and the Secrets of Summer Camp takes place between the second and third books in Marilyn Peake’s YA Paranormal Mystery Shade series, this novelette can be read as a standalone story and an introduction to the series...

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Shade and the Den of Lost Souls: A Shade Series Short Story

When your dreams are haunted by the cries of a ghost, you just might be a ghost whisperer.

 

Although Shade and the Den of Lost Souls takes place between the second and third books in Marilyn Peake’s YA Paranormal Mystery Shade series, this short story can be read as a standalone story and an introduction to the series...

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The Other

Fear can blind you to the truth.

The news is ominous and terrifying. People are seeing UFOs and strange, alien-looking creatures with humanoid shapes, green skin and large black eyes. In places where this occurs, doctors report the spread of a mysterious virus ...

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Mission Critical:
Journey to the Red Planet

On Mars, blood is the same color as dirt. And dirt can hide an awful lot of sins.

When Allison Jiang wins a ticket to be a reality show contestant on the first manned trip to Mars, she’s certain all her dreams have come true ...

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Hoarder in the Down Deep
A Silo Story

Broken people will break the rules.

 

It’s against the law to have children without winning the lottery. Implanted with a birth control device as required by law, Evangeline Hubbard, a dirt farmer in the down deep, discovers that implants sometimes fail. But in a world strictly controlled by the authorities, one pays a terrible price ...

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The Shattering of Light Into Rainbows
A Silo Short Story

In the authoritarian world of the silo, one must never say dangerous things out loud.

 

Shortly after her fifteenth birthday, Mia Flynn began hearing voices. Fifteen-year-old Lily Yates began hearing and seeing fantastical things ...

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Whiskey and Dragon Fire

It’s hard to resist a man as smooth and hot as a glass of fine whiskey.

 

Rose Cooper trades her Wall Street job and abusive boyfriend for a peaceful life in an Irish village. Working as a barmaid in a local pub, she’s content. That is, until the gorgeous man with copper-colored skin, green eyes and golden hair ...

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Blood and Ashes

It’s a long road from discovering you’re a blood witch to the dream of living happily ever after in the land of fae.

 

Kaelin discovers she has incredible power at her fingertips: the power of blood magic. She’s capable of both healing and destroying...

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Beyond the Glimmering Portal

When a witch gives you fair warning, you’d be wise to listen.

 

Allie and her friends discover a series of cell phone games that do things no other cell phone game can do. The Rings of Connection series creates portals. Hoops and Giggles is a silly early version that allows players to toss virtual balls through ...

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Feyland Tales

What if a high-tech computer game opened a gateway to the treacherous Realm of Faerie?

For fans of GameLit and fairy tales alike - dive into the bestselling world of Feyland in these eleven stories from award-winning and bestselling authors. Ranging from the poignant to the gritty, the clever to ...

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Through the Trapdoor:
A Feyland Story

From Anthea Sharp, author of the Feyland series: Through the Trapdoor by bestselling author Marilyn Peake “is a classic Feyland tale grounded in the city of Crestview—complete with faerie bargains, foolish hackers, and an intrepid heroine. The action weaves deftly between the real world, the game, and the ...

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Mutation Z: The Ebola Zombies

First book in a series.​

Ebola, one of the most feared of the hemorrhagic diseases, has begun spreading across the borders of West African countries.  The CDC and the World Health Organization have admitted they are losing control over the disease.  Some hint at a possible worldwide pandemic ...

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Mutation Z: Protecting Our Own

Third book in the series.

​Guerrilla warfare breaks out between armed militias and those perceived as protecting the zombies.  Journalist Hunter Morgan becomes the target of Clay Dixon, the organizer of a militia in a Texas border town, when he advocates for protecting the zombies until a cure is found.  The journalist has strong motivation for his beliefs: his daughter ...

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Mutation Z: Closing the Borders

Second book in the series.

​Eviscerated bodies are found along both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.  Military security is stepped up on both sides of the border.  However, journalists are given free rein to explore the devastation.  As more and more bodies are found, people begin to panic.  Meanwhile ,,,

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Mutation Z: Drones Overhead

Fourth book in the series.

Journalist Hunter Morgan comes face-to-face with terrible truths, both personal and political.  Visiting a local hospital, he discovers firsthand that zombies aren’t being treated there.  Instead, they’re being sent to a more sinister fate in a program organized by the government.  Fearing he’ll be identified by the helicopters and drones flying constantly ,,,

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Mutation Z: Dragon in the Bunker

Fifth book in the series.

​Journalist Hunter Morgan gains an unlikely ally in his search for the truth about the origins of the zombie virus. Mark Chen, youngest son of a co-owner of Chen-Zamora Pharmaceuticals, shows him information more frightening than his greatest nightmares. Together, they travel all the way from an abandoned meth shack ...

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Mutation Z Series, Books 1-3

The boxed set of Books #1, #2, and #3 in the MUTATION Z series offers readers another way to become familiar with this exciting series. The story is introduced through the eyes of Emma Johnson, a nurse whose first job is at The Liberia Treatment and Research Camp in West Africa. Young and naïve, she soon learns about the horrors of medical ...

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Mutation Z: Desperate Measures

Sixth and final book in the series.

As things heat up in the United States with both the U.S. military and radical militias targeting those trying to develop a vaccine and cure for the Zombie Plague, more researchers flee to Mark Chen’s bunker in China.  There, they will be free to carry on their research.  Bringing patients afflicted with the Zombie Virus to China ... 

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Mutation Z Series, Books 4-6

The boxed set of Books #4, #5, and #6 in the MUTATION Z series contains the final three books in this exciting series. As Journalist Hunter Morgan and a group of scientists begin to understand the complicity of the U.S. government, the U.S. military, the CDC, WHO, and a pharmaceutical corporation in the creation of the Zombie Plague, they become targets of those same groups ...

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Mutation Z Series, Books 1-6

Omnibus Edition of All Six Books in the Mutation Z Series

Ebola, one of the most feared of the hemorrhagic diseases, begins spreading across the borders of countries in West Africa. Soon after, the disease mutates into the “Z” or Zombie Virus. Journalist Hunter Morgan ...

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The Fisherman's Son

Drink deeply by land or sea.  Earth comes only once.

 

The Fisherman’s Son is a children’s novel about the adventures of twelve-year-old Wiley O’Mara. On the back of a magical dolphin, he rescues six boys trapped in an ancient city under the ocean. Along the way, he fights both The Beast in the Forest and a Fire Beast guarding the city of old.

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The City of the Golden Sun

Magic exists in the most unexpected places. Sometimes, the burst of a bubble reveals a world of treasure.

 

In the first book, the main character, Wiley O’Mara, rescued six boys trapped in an ancient city submerged beneath the ocean. Now, they all return to The City of the Golden Sun. Once there, Wiley takes a backseat to Keegan, the son of King Reginauld, and to the magnificence of the ancient city...

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Return of the Golden Age

Only the brave and trustworthy receive the keys to unlocking magic.

 

In Return of the Golden Age, Wiley O’Mara travels with six boys from the magnificent ancient city submerged beneath the ocean to his own impoverished island. The boys ...

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The Fisherman's Son Series: Books 1-3

Drink deeply by land or sea.  Earth comes only once.

 

This boxed set contains all three books in The Fisherman’s Son children’s fantasy adventure series.

Book the Sequel

Marilyn Peake is delighted to have had a number of her submissions published in Book: The Sequel, a wonderfully inventive project of The Perseus Books Group.  She’s honored to be published in the same book as so many talented contributors, including Douglas Clegg and Carl Lennertz, VP, Retail
Marketing, HarperCollins. 

From Hollywood Experts

This book is based on articles published during the first year of The Golden Goblet Newsletter edited by Marilyn Peake, and features additional articles by contributing authors written expressly for this book.

Inside Scoop

This book is based on articles published during the second year of The Golden Goblet Newsletter edited by Marilyn Peake, and features additional articles by contributing authors written expressly for this book.

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