In the Spotlight: JOAN, Quarry Hall #1

Today, the SPOTLIGHT moves to the Quarry Hall series, which is an offshoot or sister series to the Tabor Heights books. Both series are published by Desert Breeze Publishing.

If you've spent any time in Tabor Heights, you've met some of the Quarry Hall girls or seen Quarry Hall and the Arc Foundation in action.

There's some "time travel" involved, because the Quarry Hall books actually start out four years before the Tabor Heights books start.

JOAN is the story of someone who has appeared in Tabor Heights several times. In fact, if it weren't for Joan and the friends she met and made in Tabor Heights, there wouldn't be any interaction between the people of Tabor and Quarry Hall and the Arc Foundation.

Joan Archer has been living on the run since her early teens -- making up new identities, and
basically avoiding any close relationships. Until now.

Four years ago, she came to Tabor Heights looking for her baby sister. Their mother walked away during a summer storm with the months-old baby, and a few hours later came back without her. That was when Joan knew she had to flee to save her own life. Finally she dared come back to Tabor to find out what happened. She found her sister and settled in to make a place for herself in Tabor and get to know the teenager. Along the way, Joan has made some friends.

Good enough friends to risk her life for them. After an adventure that nearly got her and Matt Cameron killed, Joan returns home to turmoil, and a mysterious package on her doorstep, from a man who claims to be her father. The choices Joan makes change her life forever, and lead her to taking the biggest risk ever -- risking her soul and maybe her sanity. Are the risks worth it, to finally have a home and a family?