T.L. STRIDE- STORIES
Shadow of the Windwalker
Shaman Tales- The Chronicles of Little Hawk-
Shadow of the Windwalker
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Genre: Young Adult Fantasy (and upper Middle Grade + Adult)
Word Count: 82,000
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Two years after walking the Spirit Path, David is offered a scholarship to the MacFarland School for Gifted Children. During a visit to the school, he encounters a mystical creature who gives him a cryptic warning. Over a shortened summer break, he discovers the mysterious specter was a banshee, the supposedly mythical herald of dreadful tidings.
Returning to MacFarland at the start of the school year, David and two new friends, Jenny and Seamus, learn a series of mysterious deaths has been plaguing the area. When they discover the perpetrator of the attacks is an evil witch, they desperately search for a way to discern the identity of the villain, and the means to stop her, before she can take another innocent life.
With the help of the school’s headmistress, Melinda de Havilland, a white witch of the highest order; Seamus’s grandfather, Laird Angus; and a feisty little pixie named Drizzle, can Little Hawk find and destroy the most wicked witch of all?
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Bad Moon Rising
Shaman Tales- The Chronicles of Little Hawk-
Bad Moon Rising
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Genre: Young Adult Fantasy (and upper Middle Grade + Adult)
Word Count: 85,000
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As the summer of his sophomore year approaches, Little Hawk worries about returning to New Mexico to face a bully who has taunted him for the past several years. His anxiety soon turns to anticipation when he discovers the mythological animal known as El Chupacabra, rumored to have hunted livestock on ranches near the reservation, in years past, has returned and is once again killing cattle. His excitement is increased when Seamus’s grandfather, and Jenny’s parents allow them to accompany him home for summer break, and the kids make plans to prove the creature’s existence.
Upon arriving in New Mexico, the trio’s enthusiasm is short-lived, for a reporter covering the story of the livestock deaths is killed in a similar fashion… and her death is blamed on the creature. When the kids set out to track down El Chupacabra, they soon discover not all is as it appears.
Can David and his friends find the reporter’s true killer, and clear El Chupacabra of the crime before the once mythical creature is hunted to extinction?
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Planned SHAMAN TALES- THE CHRONICLES OF LITTLE HAWK Books Working Titles:
#5- Shaman's Demise
#6- A Return to the Light
So Much at Stake
Shaman Tales- The Chronicles of Little Hawk-
So Much at Stake
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy (and upper Middle Grade + Adult)
Word Count: 61,000
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While recovering from a vicious roadside attack, he believes
left his parents dead, David “Little Hawk” Lightfoot discovers they have been turned into vampires and vows to hunt down the one who took them. When he learns his parents and the monster have fled to New Orleans, he is determined to follow them. Unable to deter him from this course, two members of the Tribal Council volunteer to assist him. In preparation of their trip, David's grandfather, a very powerful shaman, conducts a ritual of protection over them and reveals David is destined to replace him as shaman of their tribe. Armed with only the protection of the ritual, a bag of stakes and holy water, and slowly emerging shaman abilities, can David and his companions find and destroy the monster who claimed his parents; and if necessary, can he find the strength to save them from the terrible fate that has befallen them?
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Spirit Path
Shaman Tales- The Chronicles of Little Hawk-
Spirit Path
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy (and upper Middle Grade + Adult)
Word Count: 66,000
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After vanquishing master vampire Henri Devereaux, Little Hawk returns home to discover his grandfather has disappeared. When Chief Rising Moon also vanishes, a stranger named Lakota Joe, who claims to be a friend of the chief, offers an explanation... they were taken by an ancient creature that had been imprisoned on a different plane of reality by one of Little Hawk's shaman ancestors. To save them, David must undertake a vision quest, alone in the desert, in hopes of contacting his Spirit Guide.
With Lakota Joe's assistance, can Little Hawk learn to walk the Spirit Path and save Grandfather and the chief from an ancient, mythological monster?
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