On the outside, seventeen year-old Selena McKinley is like any other teenage girl. Yet, Selena has always felt as if she doesn’t belong and is counting the days to graduation and her freedom from the small town that makes her feel so out of place, when the arrival of a stranger turns her world upside down. Selena will learn just how different she is and the truth of where she comes from.
A lost princess, they call her, the catalyst for a war involving a world that she was taken from as a child. An evil queen obsessed with her own beauty with a plan to enslave the human race.…the notion seems so silly, yet Selena knows in her heart that it is true. Then there is Titus, the shape shifter whose blue eyes and claims of destiny hold her heart captive. Can Selena find the strength to do what she must while following her heart?
Daughter of the Red Dawn released in 2012 as my debut Young Adult novel. The first book in a series, it oer 160 reviews, of which 64% are 5 stars. As a free ebook in the Amazon US store, it has spent time in the top 100 of all free books. It's sequels (3 in all), have all reached teh top 100 in various fantasy and Young Adult categories. I am looking for someone to translate the entire series.
Blades of tall grass swayed in the gentle Texas spring breeze. Wildflowers in shades of yellow, red, and orange blanketed the grassy field and bluebonnets covered the landscape in patches of deep lavender. The sun was high overhead in a cloudless sky, and the only movement besides the swaying grass was the figure of a lone girl wading through the foliage.
Selena McKinley’s coppery red hair blew around her heart-shaped face. Her whiskey brown eyes, narrowed against the sun, gleamed from behind long bangs as she moved across the abandoned field she walked through every day on her way home from school. Selena always enjoyed her walks home because they were the only time she ever had to herself.
Once at home she would have to endure her grandmother’s questions about school and Selena just didn’t feel like talking about that. Not today, or any other day for that matter.
At school she was often alone, but not in the way she would like. The eyes of the other kids were always on her and their whispers always just loud enough for Selena to hear. It didn’t matter that she kept to herself and never bothered anybody. It didn’t matter that she hardly ever raised her hand in class, or called attention to herself by appearing too smart or too dumb. Her grades might be high but she didn’t flaunt her intelligence, and she didn’t strive to be popular.
None of that mattered, because as long as Selena could remember she’d been different from everyone else. She’d never found a place to fit in. She wasn’t a beauty queen, she wasn’t a nerd, and she wasn’t a skater, stoner, Goth, or prep. She wasn’t the cheerleader type and she’d never had a boyfriend. She wasn’t artistic and she couldn’t play an instrument. She wasn’t the class president or school council type either.
