Curse of the Bone Dragon
Cancer and curses. Dragons and death. One boy must face them all.
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia and an undead dragon have one thing in common. They both want to take eleven-year-old Ryan Stark’s life.
When Ryan dares to steal the ruby heart of a long dead dragon, a deadly hex takes hold. The monster’s curse creeps into his heart and will slowly transfer his life and soul to the dragon. Shortly after, the imaginary world he shares with his twin sister,
Cassie, melds with the real world. Along with the dragon’s life-stealing curse, he is diagnosed with blood cancer. Then, both worlds descend into darkness.
Like a ticking time bomb, Ryan must destroy the cancer before it is too late. He must also defeat a dragon that grows stronger with each passing day. When chemotherapy fails and the dragon is nearly whole again, Ryan runs out of options.
Cancer and the dragon’s curse will conquer his soul and take his life if he cannot conjure the strength he needs to defeat them.
How Deep the Roots Grow
When Susie’s mother passes away, her world crumbles. Darkness creeps into her heart and dares to consume her.
In her darkest hour, her shadow emerges as a black wolf. With nowhere else to go, she chases it down into a world beneath a tree very dear to her. She descends into the abyss to discover how deep its roots grow.
Through seven worlds of the underworld, Susie gains companions as well as the power necessary to traverse the darkness. She must face monsters that wish to bury her alive, trials that test her virtues, nightmares that dare to shatter her resolve, and masters of each world that wish to end her journey. Downward is the only direction she may travel, all the way to the bottom, where the dark lord of the underworld awaits her arrival.
In the end, when she learns just how deep the roots grow, she must confront the dark lord. This confrontation, however, dares to break the promise she never got to make with her mother–that she’d never let darkness take her heart.
Gregory Clark Graves 