Edris' life of ease and privilege ends abruptly when his father, Lord Elros, announces his son will enter the king's military in the spring. Edris has only six months to prepare himself to serve a king who openly despises his family and who will undoubtedly make Edris' life beyond miserable.Lord Elros has no time for poets and dreamers. To toughen his son up, he forces him into a brutal training regime. His win-at-all-costs demands push Edris to the brink. Leaving him to search for...

GIRL IN THE ASHES takes the reader deeper into the morally gray area of doing the wrong thing for the right reasons. Caught in the now dark City of Lights, with survival a daily challenge. GIRL IN THE ASHES is a Trojan horse into Holocaust education, that seeks to reveal a different view of the atrocities of the occupation through a new lens that allows more and new people into the conversation.France has fallen to the Nazis and as people flee, Odette Lefebvre uses the chaos to kil...