Have you ever had a dragon in your house? How about a dozen? Bean is a little girl with an imagination that is creating quite a mess. Although Bean loves each of her dragons, she forgets how untidy they can be when having so much fun. When Bean’s parents discover what’s happened in their short absence, Bean finds herself the blame of the dragons’ giant […]
At that moment an idea leaped into my mind. It wasn’t a spark, and it didn’t evolve. It landed there as a fully formed idea. I didn’t even have a chance to think about how crazy I might sound before it spilled out of my mouth. “Well, if a product is worth what people are willing to pay, why not let the people decide how […]
Liz, Gemma, Arie, Jess, and Drew have been best friends since creating “the Five” at Aliso Creek High School. But that was over ten years ago, and each is still trying to find that perfect someone . . . if perfect is even possible. In fact, Liz Carlson will settle for a normal man. A normal man with a job, that is. Married twice, then […]
At one of the most conservative colleges in the country — Brigham Young University, where both angst and premarital sex are verboten — returned missionary, David Them, and his flamboyantly Texan roommate, Curses Olai, set out to pen a rock opera about the ultimate quest for the twenty-something Mormon male: avoiding matrimony. There’s just one problem. Dave’s best friend since age five, lacrosse player Martha […]
Based on a true story, this historical novel reconstructs the lives of two 19th-century African-American converts to Mormonism. Elijah Abel, the first African-American man ordained to the LDS priesthood, carried the message of Joseph Smith to whites and free blacks on three separate missions in the 1830s and ’40s. Young and Gray have used the license of fiction to elucidate large areas of Abel’s life, […]
When Val Jensen gets dumped for her decision to stay a virgin until marriage, the nasty breakup goes viral on YouTube, making her the latest internet sensation. After days of ridicule from her peers, Val starts a school-wide campaign to rally support for her cause. She meant to make a statement, but she never dreamed the entire nation would get caught up in the controversy. […]
The sleeping girl has no idea she is asleep. After Aleyna witnessed the cruel deaths of her family, she was put to sleep by Ezralon the unicorn. He has been keeping her safe, hidden in the forest, until her true prince could come and rescue her. While Aleyna is protected in the forest, her spirit walks the halls of her ruined, deserted castle in a […]
Edgar Allan Poe is at death’s door. He, Richard Burton, and their companions lie imprisoned in the cells of the Madman Pratt as he prepares to launch his air-ship fleet to bombard the Great Salt Lake City. Meanwhile, Sam Clemens and Brigham Young race across the Salt Lake Valley in the carriage of a Mexican Strider, desperate to get out the message that Young is […]
In the summer after her 16th birthday, Lucy Higgins meets the only person who could change her life and set it on a course to a world she could never have imagined existed. Benjamin Raven is a tall, handsome guy about Lucy’s age who becomes the subject of her incredibly realistic dreams. While the waking Benjamin is nice enough, he never really seems as interested […]
When Danni McAllister receives an antique pouch as a birthday gift from her grandfather, her first reaction is disappointment. “Don’t assume that something is empty, just because there’s nothing there,” her grandfather warns. Danni learns that for nearly two hundred years, the mysterious pouch—with its astonishing hidden secrets—has been handed down from generation to generation, and each new owner has had to discover for themselves […]