Much More to Come in Green Stone of Healing® Series

Packed with romance and intrigue, the Green Stone of Healing® series recounts the stories of four generations of determined and spirited women and how their lives were intimately tied to the ultimate downfall and annihilation of a once mighty and invincible nation.

The Scorpions Strike—Book Three

Acquitted of adultery, Helen’s father endures harsh punishment for lesser offenses against the Temple. While he is incapacitated due to his wounds, the head of the Temple puts a death mark on Helen and revokes her medical credentials, cruelly injuring her. Physically healed and aided by Maguari the Mist-Weaver, Helen finds and removes a lethal agent hidden in her father’s body by corrupt priest-healers.

Helen moves to her father’s manor in Alta Province, guarded by her secret love and a detail of soldiers. Maguari teaches Helen the first steps of kura manipulation and shows her how to use energy to be with her father in spirit. Helen has a vision of being attacked by a Temple warrior-monk that she reveals to no one.

Recovered, Helen’s father marries his betrothed and his wife soon becomes pregnant. True to Helen’s premonition, Temple agents almost succeed in slaying her, with her stepmother nearly suffering a miscarriage in the attack. Helen uses the green stone to save mother and child.

The Temple refuses to grant Helen’s newborn half-brother the ancient rite of First Blood. Without it the boy will never be accepted into the Kindred. Helen’s father sends her into hiding in Southern Alta Province to comply with the Temple and avert civil war.

Outcast—Book Four

While the family of Helen’s true love shelters her in Southern Alta Province, she cares for her beloved’s father during the man’s final days. After his funeral, Maguari warns Helen’s father that his life also could end soon if he does not take steps to avert disaster.

Concerns about treachery force Helen to move again, this time to a remote lodge where her father and mother spent time together. Helen takes in the children of the Sin-Eater, who are as much social outcasts among the hill-folk as she is among the nobility of the Kindred. She also makes friends with the Sin-Eater and together they learn more advanced steps of the kura from Maguari.

The refusal of Helen’s father to listen to multiple warnings brings about a calamity that abruptly ends Helen’s relatively happy life in Southern Alta Province. She returns to the city where she attended medical school, well within the reach of those who would slay her and others who will betray her.

Books Five and Beyond…

Although not yet written down on paper, these books will continue the story of the green gem as it passes from Helen to the next generation and beyond.