Bøker av Alea Henle

Magic breeds miseryAugusta fails to hold her family together, despite her magical gift for binding. Her cracked world breaks wide open the day her father decides to declare her vanished mother dead. Retracing the steps her mother took before fleeing promises to heal Augusta . . . or reveal the wrongness at the heart of her magic.Luella loves her home of farms and fields amid swamps-but her magic ensures she finds every lost thing. One too many careless words of items lost in the wrong place, and her clan elders send her off to learn to control her magic . . . except truly grasping her power requires giving up hope of returning home.Cheng speaks to the air and the earth, and they reply, ensuring he never walks alone. Until the day his work on the railroad upsets the elemental balance within him-and bit by bit he loses the ability to communicate with other humans. The pages of Sanctuary Hall practically turn themselves in a moving tale of people facing their worst enemy: their own magic.

Fate hidesEmmi indulges in cleanliness and order as a servant to the magical dancing princesses. The rest of her life? Regular chaos with her growing daughter's wants and needs, her brother sticking his nose into her business, and an impossible attraction to one of the princesses.Heron struggles with conflicting loyalties. As a sibling and citizen of their homeland, they remain loyal to the city of their birth. As a dancing princess, they help protect and preserve the land that uncovered and nurtured their magic-their homeland's feared rival and threat. Their only escape: their rooms, maintained as a haven by a woman they dare not admit they adore.Until Emmi's supervisor reassigns her. Deprived of regular contact, two lonely hearts seek each other-only to find barrier after barrier in their way.Dreamy and twisty, the pages of A Spy Princess practically turn themselves.

Fate offersNefeli dislikes secrets. They lead to mistrust and discontent. Better to face problems straight on, admit weaknesses alongside strengths, and build trust. Only Nefeli's lover and dance partner, Jola, offers a respite from the plots, treacheries, and fears plaguing Nefeli's family, the rulers of Codaros. But her family's troubles threaten to entangle her one more time when Nefeli's mother offers her true power.Jola ranks among the princesses who protect the land from danger and disaster, but remembers her common origins. Determined to help other commoners understand the power of dance magic, she led retired princesses to build schools fostering dance training across the nation. She fears losing magic, place at court, and most of all her beloved Nefeli, if her dancing ever fails. One fine evening, she sees the first signs . . .Two loving, fearful hearts. Two sets of secrets capable of binding them together-or parting them forever.With characters poignant and fierce, A Royal Princess offers a moving portrait of quiet, determined love.

Fate TurnsLeander loves three things: information, truth, and his sister. For her sake, he clambered down off the palace roofs to take a place as a sub-librarian in the library. He earns their keep in a world of books, papers, and the pursuit of answers to any and all questions. One more successful mission means promotion to full librarian-cementing his and his sister's place on the ground.But at night in his lonely bed, he dreams of a woman as far out of reach as a star in the sky. Seen and admired only from a distance: Danissa, the youngest of the magical Dancing Princesses.Sent to the summer palace to investigate a mystery-the destruction of a royal treasure-his investigation leads to Danissa. Promotion hinges on extracting vital information, but gaining her love requires restraint and secrecy. Work or love? Or find a way to win both?Two cautious hearts collide in a sweet romance in A Healer Princess.

Restore the spring of life!Losing her beloved father scarred Mara. She held tight to her mother, half-brother, and the unknown grandfather who showed up in the wake of her father's death. He never explained his absence. She never asked, valuing him as a link to her dad.Until her dying grandfather asked her to go on a quest for the conquistador who, centuries earlier, stole the spring of life.She agreed, never guessing that the quest involved deep, dark secrets about her father-and herself.Moving and powerful, Water for Blood features compelling, complex characters facing generations-old evil.

Control the past, control the futureRose soared high. Oldest daughter. Smart. Popular. A born leader ready to remake the world in the name of Truth, Justice, and Equality.Then she fell short and crashed. Dropped out of law school. Lost confidence as the future she always expected slipped out of her hands. Until the day an idle word uncovers a sorcerous plot to control the present and shape the future by changing the past. To stop it, Rose must power through her weaknesses-or give up her remaining ideals. Powerful, believable characters face a high-stakes adventure in The Webmasters of Fate.

Choose or lose!Viola values family and friends above anything else. After suffering abusive bullying in high school, she delights in a tight-knit group of friends at college.Until the night she witnesses them meeting without her. The same night her younger sister calls with news their parents' marriage further disintegrated.Running off into the forest, Viola witnesses sorcery and winds up tangled in a decades-old curse.Lovely and poignant, Swan and Shadow mixes Swan Lake and The Magic Flute into to a gripping, emotional page-turner.

Fate DancesGisela serves her village, where the good of the people matters more than any one person's happiness. Unable to contribute to the village in the most primal of ways, she releases her unhappiness by dancing in a fallow field . . . until the ruler of the land notices her latent magic.The least of a large family, Stevan ranks as a solid, reliable scribe. Someone others respect-and forget. Then he meets Gisela, the newest of the Dancing Princesses: lovely, magical, and out-of-reach.For the first time in Stevan's life, he dreams high; Gisela leaves old dreams behind in the village and seeks new. To win through to each other, they must match power for power-and dare to reveal weaknesses as well as strengths.Gentle and moving, A New Princess follows powerful, believable protagonists finding strength through love.

Never blackmail a sorcererSorcery pays no bills. Fair-weather friends dropped Marta after her divorce-a major no-no in 1950s small town Ohio-some even forbade their children to play with hers. Her ex-husband regularly forgets to pay support. Only her job as a nurse keeps her family clothed and fed-barely. Until the night Bettina, an influential former friend, appears at Marta's kitchen door. Bettina's daughter's shoes mysteriously end up covered in mud time after time despite the daughter being locked in her room overnight. Bettina demands Marta find the answer-or lose her job.But the more Marta investigates the shoes and the spell behind them, the more the sorcerous power seduces her with dreams of peace, joy, . . . and retribution.Engaging and powerful, How Full of Briars offers intricately plotted, page-turning pleasure.

Dare to remember!Bea detests snap decisions. Better to take time, examine options, and make informed choices. Order above chaos, always: in life and magic. Her new job in a magical museum suits her to a T. Lead tours through the public displays? Easy peasy. Run mapping sweeps to keep abreast of the ever-changing back rooms? The best kind of adventure.Until she stumbles across an unattended child lost in a long-forgotten forest. Restoring the child to her parent begins an adventure requiring Bea move fast-or risk catastrophe. Enter the spellbinding and richly imaginative world of The Museum of All Things Lost & Forgotten.