Library

Fantasy Adventure Novels

Written and illustrated by the Young Sisters, Carlene Bryann Young and Audrey Bryann Young

-Awilda the Princess Pirate-

"Become who you were born to be"

A Norse fantasy adventure

A wayward princess and her loyal handmaiden switch places, and become pirates on the high seas along with a crew of warrior women.

-Scheherazade: Scribe of Ragnarok-

“After a thousand Scheherazades, she shall be the first to die…”

An Arabian Nights fantasy adventure

A storyteller researching tales to save her beloved must disentangle threads of a retconned world’s narrative to prevent a trickster from changing its cataclysmic ending.

-The Claus Story-

“How the Missus Got Her Claus Into St. Nick”

A Christmas origin story

A pagan sorceress with a brood of naughty elves and a straight-laced saint - the future Santa Claus - fall in love and create a holiday tradition.

-Lord of Lorn-

“Anarchy, grief and glory… behold the fateful story”

A historical medieval-to-Elizabethan-era fantasy

A magickal shapeshifter seduces and manipulates his way through European history, from William the Conqueror to William Shakespeare, attempting to gain power for his clan.

-The Firebrand Crew-

“Taking Liberty with History”

A fantastical retelling of early American history

A diverse band of rebels stand united to fight powers - magickal and mundane, old-world and new - in order to create a free society.

-Monsters of Villa Diodati-

"Her name was Mary Shelley, and this is her tale... not the one she wrote, but the one she lived."

A historical gothic fantasy based on the real lives of Mary Shelley (‘Frankenstein’), Percy Shelley (‘Queen Mab’), Lord Byron (‘Don Juan’) and John Polidori (‘The Vampyre’)

Literary prodigies harboring dark inner demons gather at Lake Geneva for a summer holiday, only to descend into a nightmare of magick and madness.

-Away from the Sun-

"A custody battle between the living and the dead..."

A gothic Victorian faerietale

A young girl with a deadly aversion to sunlight runs away from her superstitious stepmother, only to be held hostage by ghosts from her father’s past.

-Hehewuti-

“The warrior maiden ascended to spirithood fighting for her people… now her namesake must do the same.”

An action-adventure historical fantasy based on Native American history and legend

With the aid of gods and magickal helpers, a Hopi woman becomes a masked avenger and sets out to rescue her imprisoned kin from Alcatraz.

-King of Trinidad-

“He doesn’t care how big his dominion is, just as long as he’s King of it.”

A historical fantasy of the Gilded Age based on the real-life James Harden-Hickey

An eccentric nobleman finds magickal spectacles and proclaims himself king of a derelict island, only to have it seized for use as a cable station.

-The Trial of John Jasper-

“The murderer was…”

A historical fantasy about a real-life mock trial, put on by celebrity actors and playwrights to resolve the ending of an unfinished murder mystery by Charles Dickens

Members of a Dickens fanclub are imperiled when a play-acted mock trial to ascertain the identity of a fictional murderer becomes literal rather than literary.

-Changelings-

“Every faerietale you’ve ever heard… is real."

A modern action-adventure, post-apocalyptic fantasy based on Celtic and Arthurian folklore, as well as the works of Shakespeare (‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’) and Edmund Spenser (‘The Faerie Queene’)

When the mortal realm is invaded by faerietale creatures, an escaped human warrior and a runaway Faerie princess must work together to end the conflict.

-Transmutors-

“The Value of Magick”

A steampunk future-fantasy

In a Renaissance-style world, where magick is more respectable than science, talented alchemists turn fugitive when a prophecy is misinterpreted by an overzealous hero.

The Frogplant & the Gardener - a story about a plant who eats bugs

Night Night Little Mite - a rhyming poem about a mite in search of light

The Magpie - a story about a baby magpie who finds his flock

The Frogplant & the Gardener, Night Night Little Mite, The Magpie

A series of short
children’s stories