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Sacramento, California Area

Spirited, twelve-year-old Zoey Le Mar has come to terms with her family’s odd secret and her new found responsibility with the help of her Sensei. Zoey and her friends train, strategize, and practice with their magical armor. The path is difficult.While on a multifamily vacation at Mesa Verde National Park, odd dreams and bizarre accidents start to happen. Then, ghosts from the past haunt Zoey and her friends, and they are angry. And to make matters worse, the ghosts possess the kid’s parents and gain access to magic. Now, Zoey must protect the innocent park patrons from this threat as well as find a way to save their parents. In this full-fledged fantasy novel infused with teen drama, Zoey become wrought with hard choices on how to lead, whom to protect, and how to save her friends and family, again. She realizes quickly that magic will only help out so much. She must rely on her beliefs, her training, and her confidence to see it through and hopefully save the day. This story will endear young readers to Zoey and her friends as they take a journey of understanding, survival, and forgiveness.Zoey Le Mar and the Wrath of the Anasazi is a 64,000-word young adult novel and is the second installment in a five-book series.

Sacramento, California Area

Feisty, eleven-year-old Zoey Le Mar finds out that she’s inherited her father’s curse. She scoffs then rejects her familial responsibility and endangers everyone around her, even knowing of the bizarre bedtime fairy tale, experiencing the recurring dreams, and receiving staggering premonitions. Now, the monsters from her dreams return for real, and her younger brother pays for her defiance. To make matters worse, she accidentally involves her best friends and two fellow classmates, and one by one, they get abducted into a pocket realm ridden with hidden traps and horrors beyond imagination. Luckily, old forgotten magic aids Zoey as each experience inches her closer to saving her brother and her friends, all in the hope of ending her responsibility and finding a way home alive. In this full-fledged fantasy infused with preteen drama, Zoey drifts aimlessly on a self-made river of denial until she clashes into the reality of monsters, magic, and mayhem. She finally comes to understand how her veil of secrets is unhealthy and dangerous and how reacting without thinking puts her friends and family in grave danger. This story will endear young readers to Zoey as she takes her journey of self-awareness, survival, and redemption.Zoey Le Mar and the Veil of Fear is a 64,000-word young adult novel and is the first installment in a five-book series.

Master Of Education (M.Ed.)

Teaching Credential, Elementary Education And Teaching

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Psychology