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Teen and Young Adult
I Don't Trust You
I Don't Trust You
Ken Saik
“I’m out of here.”
A teen escapes a few weeks before her graduation. No longer will I be tortured by my alcoholic father’s mental and physical abuses. I’ll start a new life. I won’t make my mother’s mistake. I won’t marry a man who drinks. Then, I’ll have a loving family.
Too idealistic? Maybe not, for a person with strong willpower. Of course, she must overcome the image that she’s a vulnerable girl. How can she escape the psychological scars burned into her memory? How will she cope with the conviction that no one can be trusted? Particularly men?
She needs help. How can anyone win a sliver of her trust? 1st book of the Twisting, Turning, Healing Journeys.
Marriage Mistake
Marriage Mistake
Ken Saik
I will make this marriage work. My love will make this marriage work.
In this family story, Marriage Mistake, two people’s motivations differ, but they are committed to living together in a harmonious relationship. Unforgotten childhood experiences intrude to rest their resolve. Witness the human spirit rise against unwelcomed challenges as you read this story.
2 book of the Twisting, Turning, Healing Journeys.
Helping Hands
Helping Hands
Ken Saik
In this inspirational story, a woman attempting to reclaim her life is led on an emotional journey with the help of a devoted friend. Their quest ultimately reveals denied truths and prompts her to seek forgiveness. After an accident that causes recently divorced Jill to spend six weeks in the hospital, she returns home. She is disturbed by the discovery that she needs to find a way to become part of her children’s lives. Her efforts are hampered by having no car, by her job that is temporarily on hold, and by her fear of dipping into the limited funds in her bank account. While her physical injuries are healing, she continues to be haunted by her lifelong psychological scars. To whom can she turn to for help? 3rd book of the Twisting, Turning, Healing Journeys.
The Fall of Varlana
The Fall of Varlana
Joy Simons
Book 1 Rule of Wisdom Trilogy.
She hummed a sweet song as she washed the king's dishes. I wonder when I'll see him again. He's so wonderful. And we're to be married! She twirled around in joy and laughed as soap suds flew about the room. "Knock, knock." Her heart skipped a beat and she turned to smile at her beloved. She ran across the room and jumped into Jakfa's arms. "Little Bird, you'll knock me over." "I love it when you call me Little Bird." Jakfa smiled and kissed her. "I can't stay, but I wanted to see you one more time today. Do you still love me?" "Oh yes. Oh yes. I will love you forever."
The Rise of Echlys
The Rise of Echlys
Joy Simons
Book 2 in the Rule of Wisdom Trilogy. The Rise of Echlys chronicles Ja'el's slide into darknes and Jakfa's rise to power through the fortunes of the evil dragon Echlys. Umberlan is torn apart by the rise of a new religion, The Order. Dugan's army grows and he successfully pushes back against Gailen's advance, but the war reaches a stand still at the battle of the Angese. With General Tobin stopped at the river, Echlys begins to manipulate humanity for his own gains.
However, Echlys is unaware that the ancient dragons have sent Echlys's sister to combat the expanding evil. Weaker than her brother, she desperately searches for a way to defeat him, making an alliance with King Gailen and Robin, a boy in the care of Ja'el.
The Final Battle
The Final Battle
Joy Simons
Book 3 in the Rule of Wisdom Trilogy. The power of Echlys grows even as the armies of Tobin and Dugan prepare to face each other. Caleb leaves Ja'el as Ja'el moves ever deeper into the darkness of powerful magic. Adonna is captured. Noran is suspicious of a new soldier who seems to receive his orders from an unknown source. The dragon/human bond is revealed even as the unity of the dragons unravels.
The end approaches and the world is in disarray, which is exactly how Echlys likes it. He sees victory coming closer, but the fight isn't where he believes it is.
Book of Life's Cycles and Other Mysteries
Book of Life's Cycles and Other Mysteries
Kevin Ray Decker
Every picture tells a story, you be the judge. A Treasure hunter and Adventurer in search of the 7 Cities of Cibola found forbidden archaeology where fact is stranger than fiction; at the beginning and end of imagination. I cannot make this up if I had to, I am merely reading the signs and speaking truth to power.
Tex Vortex
Kevin Decker has a You Tube Channel
Tex Vortex's Amazing Google Earth Satellite Tours.
According to the Bible in Genesis, the evening and the morning were the first day--six different times and according to my studies the earth is spinning backwards and upside down.
Rocks of Ages
Rocks of Ages
Rocks of Ages
Kevin Ray Decker
The start of it all was when Kevin was in the Army stationed in Turkey. He traveled the area and saw where Noah’s Ark was supposed to be at the base of Mount Arrat. He became infatuated with studying the area. He was a map reading expert and knew how to use the Goggle Satellite imaging to compare the notes with the actual facts. He studied the sands of time and realized that it left a trail of evidence as the Pacific Ocean carried Noah’s Ark across Asia over the Himalayan Mountains and onto Mount Arrat in North Eastern Turkey.
Teen and Young Adult Fiction
The Reluctant Traveler
The Reluctant Traveler
Joy Simons
Beth’s life is filled with the trauma of High School and a family that doesn’t understand her. Her escape is a local wax museum where she imagines herself within the scenes living a better life – until the scenes become real and she doesn’t know how to get back home.
In the End
In the End
Ken Saik
A Sinkhole Swallows 12 Teens
In the young-adult thriller novel, 12 senior high boys attempt to escape death by sliding down a rope and climbing into an old mine tunnel, the entrance to an underground labyrinth.
One of the boys senses a menacing presence but can’t prove its existence. Then the mine’s dangers claim one life after another.
The closed-knit boys soon realize that their limited food and water supplies is the least of their problems. Hope of returning home changes to needing to find a way out of the endless, dangerous, tunnels to escape whatever is killing them off. How many of them will live to tell their tale?
Old Country Surprises
Old Country Surprises
Seeking my family roots
Ken Saik
Ken Saik, a retired social studies high school teacher, is a third-generation Canadian Ukrainian who lives in Alberta Canada. In 2012, to bolster his limited cultural knowledge he took a bus tour of Ukraine. Their current Ukrainian life and love of their history revitalize the author's fascination with his heritage as his book Old Country Surprises illustrates. Ken Saik loves to write. His passion was first recognized by his grade six teacher and later by his English high school teacher.
More than a Fantasy
Change of Luck 1: More than a Fantasy
Ken Saik
For the love of money
It’s not unusual to hear that a person loves money, and that that love can get them into all kinds of trouble.
In this realistic fantasy narrative the reverse is true. A one-hundred-dollar bill appears to love the one who possess it. It repeatedly returns to its holder. To be spent again and again. Maybe. But the consequences from a friend or a merchant who does not have the bill are often painful or bringing more trouble than is bargained for.
How bad can that be? Read Change of Luck: More than a Fantasy and see what happens to Jerry when he receives the one-hundred-dollar bill. See what happens to Tara when she receives the one-hundred-dollar bill.
Not My Fault
Change of Luck 2: Not My Fault
Ken Saik
For the love of money
A blessing turns into a curse.
Bruce, a tween, received crinkled one-hundred-dollar bill from his mother’s friend to help him pay for his dog’s vet bill. He soon discovered the dollar bill always mysteriously returned to his wallet.
Try explaining why he still had the money to the vet’s assistant. To his father. To an angry Steve, who’d forced Bruce to give him the bill.
Bruce had to find a way to get rid of it. But how?
Not Losing My Mind
Change of Luck 3: Not Losing My Mind
Ken Saik
Lock me up in the dementia ward!
No son. Not a Chance.
I can just hear my son now. Dad. What sane person believes he possess a magic $100 bill? Unreal. You’ve lost your grip on reality. You need to be placed in a secured unit for your own good.
But I do have such a bill. I spend it. It returns to my wallet in a most visible way. The by-the-book Care Center attendant takes it away from me. It returns to my wallet. If I tell him it’s a magic bill, he’ll report me to my son. If I tell him nothing, he’ll think I’m a thief or worse.
I must get rid of it. But how? It keeps returning. Maybe Maggie knows. She lent it to me. Does he have any control over what happens to him?