Bøker av Marc Secchia

A Harvard-Trained Investment Banking Executive and an Ethiopian Aid Worker caught up Together in a God-Sized StoryWorlds apart, yet brothers in heart. Tripp chased the American dream. Berhanu was chased for his life.Tripp Johnston, a successful American business executive with a Harvard MBA, seemed to have it all, yet he hungered for more. He was rich, yet poor in so many ways. Poverty, famine, political repression, and persecution framed Berhanu's world in Ethiopia. Although poor by most measures, Berhanu was rich in relationships with Christian friends and God. In a seemingly crazy move, Tripp gave up a lucrative career and moved his family of five to Ethiopia, following God's leading. This journey of faith radically redefined everything Tripp thought he knew about purpose, significance, and success. Together, Tripp and Berhanu helped launch Sports Friends, a ministry of SIM that is touching the lives of hundreds of thousands of young people in Ethiopia and around the world.

The war to decide Santaclaws' fate has begun. United at last, the Giant nation marches to war. The Humans hole up in the Amarinthian Bulwark, desperate to hold off the Certanshi invaders until help arrives - help they pray for. Trapped in the middle of a war that will embroil and endanger all they love, Keir and Storm, the Diamond Dragoness, must fight for their future. If Santaclaws is lost, there will be no future at all. From worlds apart, the enemy reveals his hand. A dark presence rises in the swamps. The Reavers gather in numbers at the portals of Tyanbran, ready to unleash destruction upon the beleaguered Human nation. Few remain to defend Santaclaws. Elf, Giant, Human and Dragon. Broken by loss, wracked by tumult and betrayal, besieged by an unstoppable foe, can new heroes rise to save the day? Santaclaws is a Dragon, of course - didn't you you know? The sixth tale in Santaclaws takes a series of twists and dives that will catapult you to a wholly unexpected conclusion in Book 7, the climactic episode. So strap on your Dragon Rider gear and hop aboard for a stormy ride!

A Christmas Dragon tale like no other.The start of a new Dragon Rider epic for fans of Anne McCaffrey, Eragon and How to Train Your Dragon. Santa Claus - Santaclaws - is really a dragon. Keir thinks he knows about bad luck. His Elven mother is dying of a wasting disease. His Human father, severely injured in the war, struggles to walk. A brutal Winterfall clasps his mountainous kingdom in talons of ice. The people are starving. His family, his little sisters, depend on him to see them to Dragonmas Day.They need a miracle. But who believes in miracles anymore?Long ago, the mighty Dragon Santaclaws rescued Humankind and resettled them in the magical realm of Tyanbran - but Santaclaws and his miracles are gone, and his Dragons disappeared. Now, a stubborn half-Elf must brave blizzards and treacherous trails to bring food to the kingdom, and find winterberry to ease his mother's suffering.What he discovers on this journey will shatter all unbelief. The lightning-born treasure he places beneath his Dragonmas tree changes everything, for wishes are different when it comes to Dragons.Wishes take wing, and come true.

Who is the Beauty and who is the Beast? Cindrelline is a celebrated beauty who suffers from an appalling affliction, the price of her ancestor's ill-fated dealings with a Necromancer. The cursed blood of a slain Dragon which runs in her veins has already claimed the lives of her parents and many relatives. Now, Aunt Gretelline has her claws on the family fortune and she has Cindrelline's medical treatment ... well in hand.Is Cindrelline the accursed Beast? Or the scheming aunt? Or is it the one who publicly humiliates her that night of the Royal Ball, who offers her life as payment to a marauding Dragon to spare the Kingdom of Starmond-on-Wave?Cindrelline has courage. She knows her duty. Facing the monstrous Dragon that day after the Ball, she makes a fateful choice.Yet nothing could prepare her for the discovery of who the Beast truly is. A twisted, rollicking fusion of the fairy tales of Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast that will keep the reader guessing right to the end. Will Cindrelline beat the curse and enjoy her happily ever after?

Little paws must not grow large.True to Keir's fears, the enemy is not slow to respond to a Dragon hatchling's birth. Certanshi assassins close in on his family, but they are not the only ones who want the Elves of Amarinthe and his scaly diamond miracle dead and buried in the snows.The ill-prepared Elves must flee through snow and winter storm to the safety of the Arabaxa Jungles. Keir leads the way through the heart of the mountains, beneath the Dragon Kings peaks, into the lair of Santaclaws himself - but many dangers lie in wait. Ancient powers hunger for Dragon magic. Hunters scour the peaks, bringing storm and destruction.Meantime, managing a growing hatchling brings many new challenges. Eating his father's boots is one matter. Demanding that he lose himself, his very being, in their magical bond is quite another.If he would become a Dragon Guardian, Keir must face his greatest test yet. The second thrilling volume in a new Dragon Rider epic for fans of Anne McCaffrey, Eragon and How to Train Your Dragon.Release dates for the following books in the series: Santaclaws 3 - May 18th 2021Santaclaws 4 - August 18th 2021Santaclaws 5 - November 18th 202