New Releases by O. R. Melling

A fantasy "shimmering with magic, myth, and romance,"* now available in paperback

Eleven year-old Dana has just learned that her musician dad plans to return to Canada, so they will be moving from Ireland, maybe forever. To leave her friends, school and the only home she has ever known is bad enough. But if they go, Dana must abandon all hope of ever finding her mother, who disappeared when Dana was three. Dana is unwillingly drawn into the world of Faerie. Wandering the woods, she meets a strange young woman who charges her with an important but dangerous mission : to carry a message from the High King of Faerie to his second-in-command deep in the mountains. If she succeeds, Dana will have her heart''s desire - any wish will be granted.

"The second book in the critically acclaimed Chronicles of Faerie series" In this book, which "School Library Journal" called lyrical and mesmerizing, eighteen-year-old Laurel arrives in Ireland on the anniversary of her sisters mysterious death, to take up her twins failed mission to find the Summer King and save Faerie. As Laurel sets her cynicism aside and becomes caught up in dark secrets and old hatreds, she harbors a desperate dream of her ownto save her sister. With its layers of fantasy and reality, "The Summer King" invites readers to travel between two worlds in the company of a master storyteller.

A complex fantasy with three levels that introduces us to a Canadian author who goes to Ireland to escape her husband, and the characters she brings to life in her book mirroring her own circumstances (or it may be the other way around).