Let Your Summer Reading Begin with a Visit to Fairy Falls…
It’s been eleven years sincewe moved from our cottage-turned-lake-house to the burbs of a historic southernOntario town on the Detroit River, yet I can still feel the pull of the formercottage country lifestyle reel me in, especially during the summer months. Why?It wasn’t because of the blackflies! LOL! The truth is I found that life wasslower up there in retrospect, and getting to live so close to nature was aprivilege and blessing. However, Hubby and I knew the time was ripe to move,and let someone else enjoy the home we built by the lake. So, we sold the old homestead,complete with a westerly view to die for, pulled up our stakes, and moved to awarmer climate to be closer to family, and new opportunities for us.
Do I regret moving? Sometimes.That’s one of the reasons why I created the fictional tourist town of FairyFalls. It was a place where I could set my teen psychic mystery series,Mysterious Tales from Fairy Falls around the beautiful Canadian cottage countrylandscape that I left behind. By doing this I was able to share my experiences,and expand my imagination through my psychically-gifted characters using theart of storytelling as a means of conveyance. Fairy Falls is now a place whereI can visit anytime I choose, without the need of purchasing a can or two ofbug spray. Wink.
Setting the series was theeasy part. Write what you know, right? So I took in the sights, smells, sounds,tastes, emotions, and feelings of where I used to live, and added thechallenges and obstacles of what it would be like for an uprooted teenagerpossessing a psychic ability to adjust to the day-to-day living in Fairy Falls,then gave them a mystery to solve. Meagan Walsh, the protagonist from Lost and Found tells us what she thinksof Fairy Falls right off the bat: “This town sucks!”, and she goes on todescribe it as ‘a small, boring northern tourist town’. If only Meagan knewwhat life had planned for her in this magical place!
Speaking of magical, if you’dlike to pay a visit to Fairy Falls during this summer (or winter if you live inthe southern hemisphere), and feed your need to read at the same time, pleaseconsider curling up with one of my books. Here’s a glimpse into my cottagecountry mysteries…
Lost & Found, Book One:
Fairy Fallswas bores-ville from the get-go. Then the animals started talking. ..
The FairyFalls Animal Shelter is in trouble. Money trouble. It’s up to an old calicocat named Whiskey—a sheltercat who has mastered the skill of observation—to find a new human pack leader so that their home willbe saved. With the help of Nobel, the leader of the shelter dogs, the animalsset out to use the ancient skill of telepathy to contact any human who bothersto listen to them. Unfortunately for fifteen-year-old Meagan Walsh, she hearsthem, loud and clear.
Forced tolive with her Aunt Izzy in the safe and quiet town of Fairy Falls, Meagan iscaught stealing and is sentenced to do community hours at the animal shelterwhere her aunt works. Realizing Meagan can hear her, Whiskey realizes thatMeagan just might have the pack leader qualities necessary to save the animals.Avoiding Whiskey and the rest of shelter animals becomes impossible for Meagan,so she finally gives in and promises to help them. Meagan, along with hernewfound friends, Reid Robertson and Natalie Knight, discover that someone inFairy Falls is not only out to destroy the shelter, but the animals as well.Can Meagan convince her aunt and co-workers that the animals are in danger? Ifshe fails, then all the animals’ voices will be silenced forever.
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Blackflies & Blueberries, Book Two:
The only witness left to testify against an unsolvedcrime in Fairy Falls isn’t a person…
City born and bred, Hart Stewart possesses the gift of psychometry—thepsychic ability to discover facts about an event or person by touchinginanimate objects associated with them. Since his mother’s death,seventeen-year-old Hart has endured homelessness, and has learned ways to keephis illiteracy under wraps. He eventually learns of a great-aunt living inFairy Falls, and decides to leave the only life he’s ever known for anuncertain future.
Diana MacGregor lives in Fairy Falls. Her mother was a victim of asenseless murder. Only Diana’s unanswered questions and her grief keeps hergoing, until Hart finds her mother’s lost ring and becomes a witness to hermurder.
Through Hart’s psychic power, Diana gains hope for justice. Theirinvestigation leads them into the corrupt world threatening Fairy Falls. Tosecure the town’s future, Hart and Diana must join forces to uncover theshocking truth, or they risk losing the true essence of Fairy Falls forever.
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Sticks & Stones, Book Three:
The healing needs to leave the circle forall to be whole.
Fourteen-year-oldThane Berg never asked to move to Fairy Falls—or to live with the father hebarely knows. But when he starts manifestingstrange powers—bending tools, levitating rocks, and moving objects with hismind—his world turns upside down. His psychic ability, psychokinesis, growsstronger and harder to control with every emotional spike. As if navigating anew school and a strained relationship with his gay father weren’t challengingenough, Thane must also keep his powers hidden while grappling with secretsfrom the past.
With the help of an eccentricneighbor, Thane begins to understand his paranormal gift. A mysteriousbook—tied to an ancient Druid and discovered in the school library—may hold thekey to his powers. But things take a darker turn when he and three new friendsstumble upon an illegal marijuana grow-op on his grandfather’s rural property.The operation is poisoning the land—and something far older and more magicalthan anyone suspects.
Now,Thane must harness his unstable abilities to protect his friends, heal thedamage done to the forest, and preserve the mystical legacy of Fairy Falls. Ifhe fails, he risks losing everything—and everyone—he’s come to care about.
There you have it!Great summer (or winter) reading material at your fingertips. Have you ever visiteda small town while on vacation and felt at home there for some reason? If youcould choose a psychic ability, what would be your choice? I’d love to readyour comments. Cheers, and as always, thank you for spending your time readingmy blog!
