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Do dreams really come true? When Letty Wade dreams of six flowers in a barren field and a hawk tells her to save them, she wonders about the dream. But when she attends her aunt's funeral in the city, far from her mountain home, she overhears conversation about an orphanage with six children that couldn't be placed with a family and are being sent to the work house, Letty knows these children are the six flowers in her dreams. After meeting her aunt's lawyer, who helps her adopt the children, she must be present for the reading of her aunt's will. It is then she finds out that her aunt has left her a gold mine that is producing and bringing in a handsome sum of money for her each month. Will a 59 year old widow be able to care for six rambunctious children and what will become of them should she suddenly die?

From a poem the author wrote about her grand-father, whom she called, Daddy Joe. Bobbie Shafer has created a picture book with the poem that will take boys and girls on a magical ride with Santa all across the world.

Dumped by his father, Caleb Ferguson spent ten years at Fair Meadow Orphanage feeling abandoned and alone. Only his dream-filled nights of fairies, leprechauns, and magical knights give his life any joy, until the day the strange and incredible Professor Thaddeus Myrrdin Slimmerik appears. The Professor and his magical pocket watch turn the orphanage upside-down as he whisks Caleb away to the land the boy once believed existed only in his dreams. Caleb discovers his past and future uniquely entwined with Professor Slimmerik's, while he also learns the truth about his father and the curious birthmark they share. Will Caleb fulfill his destiny or is the mark of the dragonfly a curse that will destroy him?

When twelve-year-old Fiona is struck by lightning, she wakes to find her life has changed forever. At a faraway mysterious mountain estate, Fiona learns of her heritage from her great-great-grandmother, Ambrosia. She also learns of the quest left to her after Ambrosia's death-find the Sorcerer's Staff. The balance of good and evil rests on The Book of Redemption, a book Fiona and her grandfather are sworn to protect from the evil Count Armistad at all costs, but the only way to combat the evil count is through the power the staff holds. Will Fiona find it in time, or will she and her grandfather die trying?

Lexie Thach is a young woman who was raised in a one bedroom apartment above a delicatessen by a cold, indifferent aunt who avoided discussing Lexie's family. After graduating college and a series of menial jobs, she is a successful author and her main objective is to move from her tiny, cramped apartment and buy a large roomy house to call home. There is a glitch, or so she thinks, in her computer that causes it to turn itself on and display a spacious mansion. The magnificent house fits Lexie's dream home to a tee and the page provides detailed instructions to the location of the South Carolina estate. The house haunts Lexie until she and her best friend and agent, Roxie Carter, pack up and start a journey to the south that will change both their lives. The house on Blackbird Lane pulls them into a murder mystery, supernatural involvement, and perhaps, if they survive, gives Lexie the answers to her past that she never dreamed existed.

Virginia "Ginny" Cash has learned that her husband, Wylie is MIA while serving in the Korean War, and worse yet, his pay has stopped, but because he hasn't been declared dead either, she can't even get widow benefits to help provide for her two children, Donny, 5, and Anna Marie, 4. Although working at the little diner downstairs from her apartment provides wages and sometimes, pretty good tips, she still lives hand to mouth. Ginny's best friend, Edna, lives across the hall and babysits Donny & Anna. Edna continues to try and press Ginny to accept the fact that Wylie is dead and will never come back, Ginny refuses. Yet, having him declared dead would help financially, but Ginny just can't give up on the love of her life.Then, as if fate steps in, Ginny receives a large envelope containing three letters. The first explains that she has inherited Eagle Creek Manor; the second has train tickets for Ginny and her children; the third contained $1,000 in cold hard cash. Jenny couldn't believe it wasn't a hoax and ran across the hall to Edna's apartment and showed her the envelopes. A few minutes later the hall phone rang, just as the letter said it would, and the man on the other end assured her that yes indeed, her fortune had changed significantly, but Ginny wasn't leaving Edna alone, and told the man she wouldn't accept unless Edna went to and they agreed immediately.When the group arrives at Eagle Creek Manor, they are incredulous that this estate could possibly be their home free & clear. But all is not as it seems in Sycamore Grove. Young girls had been disappearing for nearly thirty years, yet most were written off as runaways, or as having met some young man and eloping, but when someone breaks into Ginny's new home, she decides to find out once and for all what was going on.But can a young woman protect her children and her friend from a serial killer who is much closer than any of them might guess?

As Caleb and Duncan near the end of their summer holiday, their summer guardian and teacher Molly O'Toole is attacked by a deadly monster - a horrific mutated scorpion. At the Elemental Academy, Professor Slimmerik, Caleb, and the other young warriors discover that Molly's attack is to be only the first of many. Students and instructors from other Army of the Light schools gather at Elemental for protection, but as events unfold, the Professor and Caleb decide that something evil lurks within the very walls of the school. To make things worse, it is possible that one of the people living at Elemental is not who they seem to be. Caleb must seek the aid of the one person he fears the most, the Guardian of the Forbidden Forest, the powerful goddess who destroys all who enter her protected woodland. He must face brave terrible bloodthirsty creatures just to beg an audience. Without her help the students will be left at the mercy of the unknown evil and Elemental Academy might be doomed for all eternity.

Aimee Amelia McKay was an innocent lady of society until she met Marcus Alexander, who told her everything she wanted to hear. Against her father's wishes, Aimee ran away to California with Marcus and wound up an abused, neglected, and battered woman. After managing to hold onto a few of her mother's jewels that Marcus hadn't yet gambled away, Aimee escaped, bought passage on a ship heading to South Carolina via South America. Finally, she would be free but with no place to go, she only hoped she would be able to start a new life far from Marcus' reach. During the voyage, Aimee learned the ship's cargo hold was full of gold from the mines in California, headed to New York. She also met Abram, an elderly Jewish man, whom she befriended. However, that trip would never see New York City. While in he warm gulf waters, the ship ran into a hurricane and began to sink. Only women and children were allowed into the lifeboats but before Aimee was lowered down, Abram thrust his satchel and money belt, both filled with gold, to her. Watching from a distance, the women witnessed the ship sink believing every man left aboard perished. When the survivors arrived in Charleston, Aimee had a plan. She would escape not only the chance of Marcus finding her, she would become someone else completely - someone Marcus would never recognize. Arriving in Sycamore Grove, Aimee settles into life as Mack Kaymey, a wealthy man who lost his family, and with ill health, only wishes to buy a home and remain secluded for the rest of his life. But when a young, Negro boy appears, Mr. Kaymey discovers a camp of run-away slaves living nearby, and sets out to help them. But it seems that no matter how well we cover our tracks, the past and the truth has a way of finding us. Can Mack Kaymey avoid Aimee McKay and her problems forever, or will Love's Golden Dream finally find her in spite of herself?

After the death of her parents, young Sophie Taylor has to adjust to a new home located across the state, new aunts she's never met before, a new school, and new friends. If that wasn't enough, a diary she finds in the attic of her new home changes everything, putting her life in danger and that her fate lies in the hands of the little girl who wrote the diary, a little girl only she can see.

When Widower Clayton Wilkins loses his job and a sealed bid on an unseen farm in the next town is accepted, he moves this three children and in-laws to Sycamore Grove. Once there, Clayton is faced with multiple challenges, and a variety of unusual people lead him to wonder if he has bitten off more than he can chew. A mysterious young man agrees to work for room and board, the banker's niece presents Clayton with a life-altering challenge, and the people whose property borders his, seems to know much more about the new home than they're telling. How much more can Clayton handle? And was bidding on Eagle Creek the biggest mistake of his life?