Faith, Fiction, Friends

A king thrown into a trance. A power-hungry vizier. An evil spirit awakening from a sleep of thousands of years. The discovery of wha...

A frantic mother, facing the planned murder of her new baby by her husband (and the baby’s father), sends the child out to sea in a watert...

It’s been a while since I gathered up my “notes to self” and Post-Its and what-not, and had a Pleasantly Disturbed Friday. The pic...

A child is born in the village of Wentwater, which seems soaked in superstition and old wives tales. At her naming ceremony, the local witc...

Yes, we have a winner in the giveaway of an autographed copy of C.S. Lakin's The Land of Darkness , the third of her novels in the Ga...

I can still remember being a young child and having my mother read Grimm’s Fairy Tales to me from a thin but oversized volume with a gre...

  I’m becoming a real fan of fantasy. C. S. Lakin has now published The Land of Darkness , her third novel in the “ Gates of Heaven ” se...

Until recently, the only books by C.S. Lakin that I had read were a contemporary novel, Someone to Blame , and two of her fantasy novels – ...

I’m continuing my new-found romance with fantasy novels. Last week , I talked about C.S. Lakin’s The Wolf of Tebron , the first novel in “...

I've never been a fan of the fiction genre of fantasy. Back in the mid-1970s, possibly because of the release of Star Wars in 1977, I ...

Matt and Irene Moore and their daughter Casey move to Breakers, a small summer-tourist kind of town in northern California. A family whose f...