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Oak, Ash, and Thorn
Book 3: Oak, Ash, and Thorn
Who is Taylor Smart?
A smart-alecky eighth-grader at Bulloch Middle School? Check. A girl with barely-tapped supernatural powers inherited from parents she barely knew? Check. But truly answering that question—Who is Taylor Smart?—had only become more complicated once Taylor learned the secret of her own magical identity.
Now that the faery realm has heard Taylor’s story, people are taking notice—and not all of them are pleased. Will she be a symbol of resistance to rally around? A dangerous variable that must be controlled? A threat to be eliminated?
When competing factions of the Wonder come to the brink of war, Taylor finds herself in the middle, and everyone has the same questions, including Taylor herself: Who is Taylor Smart? What will she do? Will she even survive?
The Devil’s Due
Taylor Smart knew that living with one foot in the everyday world and the other in the faery realm wouldn’t be easy, but nobody told her it was a death sentence! When you’re only thirteen years old and a powerful sídhe overlord puts you on his black list, bad things are bound to happen. And as if that weren’t enough, somebody has also set their sights on her best friend, Jill.
In the unearthly world its inhabitants call the Wonder, people pay their debts…or live to regret it. And so, Taylor and Jill find themselves running away from home, forging new alliances, and facing unexpected dangers in hopes that maybe—just maybe—they’ll be able to soothe the wounded pride of the powers that are out to get them.
Children of Pride
Taylor Smart has a pretty good life despite her mean teachers and snooty classmates. Of course, that is before she is kidnapped by the Fair Folk and whisked into a world she never dreamed could be real.
Apparently, the cuddly versions of those old faery tales don’t tell the whole story, and middle school never prepared Taylor for a world filled with bogeymen, trolls, dwarves, and spriggans. But that’s what she finds in the faery realm its inhabitants call the Wonder.
Taylor is thrown into a quest to discover her true identity guided by Danny Underhill, her erstwhile kidnapper. But will the shapeshifting trickster’s dark secrets spell her doom? And how will Taylor decide which world, fae or human, is truly her own?
Sunday Inspiration: Forgiveness
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
—Lewis Smedes
Sunday Inspiration: Tears
Pay attention to your tears. They tell you who you are.
—Frederick Buechner
Sunday Inspiration: Do What You Can
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
—Arthur Ashe
Sunday Inspiration: Anger
Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
—Eckhart Tolle
Sunday Inspiration: Good Works
God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.
—Martin Luther
Sunday Inspiration: Clinging to Hate
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
—James Baldwin
Sunday Inspiration: Educating the Heart
When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts.
—Nelson Mandela
