New Releases by Marian Cockrell

In the middle of a deep forest is an enchanted valley and a castle where only shadows live, shadows of kings and queens who have waited for hundreds of years for the spell cast upon them to be broken. One day, a girl named Lucy follows a little dog through a tunnel into the valley and meets the mysterious red-haired Michael, who takes her into the shadow world to meet Prince Mika and his mortal wife Gloria, their children and their children''s children, and learn the magic that will lift the spell.

Upon her mother''s death in 1902, twenty-one-year-old Alfreda Esmond turns the family home into a boarding house that attracts a highly eccentric collection of boarders

Spirited New England spinster is selected as the new teacher in a pioneer Colorado town, and the towns-people are surprised when they learn she has a mind of her own.