R D Blake: 10 books

Michael Liddle wants to yank the hair right out of his head!It’s bad enough that he and Alowyn, the Tylani princess, are included in the Ideema prophecy. Now the Procifi are naming him the “Arribahur” — “the one who opens the bridge” to their home world. All Michael and Alowyn really...

Nothing could be more idyllic than growing up in a small Oklahoman town as I did. At least it was until I began the third grade. Then things changed and, believe me, not for the better. But perhaps the worst of all that occurred was the end of my friendship with the girl three doors down from my home,...

It is often said the past is an unstoppable current, flowing relentlessly into the present and forever shifting the contours of the shores that might have once constituted the future. This is no less true in small villages where memories are long and the effects of both good and evil dwell in the...

Michael Liddle walked alone into his new school on the first day of a new year. All he wondered about was whether he would make some new friends, fit in with his classmates, and do well enough at his school subjects. Unknown to him, a web of fate and hope had been spun around him long ago that was...

Michael Liddle and Alowyn face more than one set-back in their quest to find the Ideema Gift. It appears that no matter what they discover, the real truth seems to be something else entirely. They had located the Bastion, which had led them to another world where the trail of the Gift was picked up...

“As long as she lives, may she turn uglier each day… be less fair, less desirable and that it continue until her death.”Black, evil, merciless words spoken by one whom Ilena, in all of her innocence, believed loved her: a curse founded upon envy and desire but chiefly uttered in an appeal...

Faith. Fate. Two words so full of potency, yet fraught with nuances that touch on many of humanity’s hopes and fears. Two words commonly employed as if they are mutually exclusive—that the realities they represent exist within continua in complete opposition to each other. Forty-five hundred...

Broderick knew who he was: a peasant, a commoner, a nobody, at best a stable boy. Why couldn’t everyone else see him for who he truly was? Especially her! Ever since Princess Charlotte had ordered him to ride with her to the old mill, his life had been turned upside down with no one granting him...

King Sylvian Jolivet slowly rose from his prostrated position before the icons of his faith. Despite the past hour of baring his soul before his Lord, he felt little peace. He had allowed no priest to accompany him or to act to intercede on his behalf. There were secrets, no, not of the kingdom, that...

Leaving St. Milborn-Under-the Hill and the murders that had been committed there, David Hutchings and Clare Edwards want to believe the chief part of the guilt and the loneliness and, too, the punishment for their past sins are now behind them, that the budding dawn of a new day is waiting there in...