Join or Fight. Escape or Die. Love now. Lose Forever.
Gold Medal Winner: 2015 Wishing Shelf Book Awards, Teenager Category
Winner: 2015 Indie BRAG Medallion
Honorable Mention: 2015 Reader Views Literary Awards, Teenager Category
A chilling story in the best tradition of SF. A must read!
Winifred Morris—Author of Bombed
This book caused my spine to tingle with the very first sentence and the intensity of the storyline kept it tingling through to the very last page! Some of the characters will enrage you, while others will tug at your heartstrings; all of them will evoke emotions that will leave imprints in your mind long after you put down the book.
Reader Views.com
A great book. Strong and magnetic moments. Attraction and the circumstances which keep them apart are excellently portrayed.
Ann Girdharry—Author of Trading with Death
Makes you think. A whirlwind of conflict.
Kayl A. Karadjian—Author of Broken Blades Don't Sing
In a dark future, two pleb teenagers scraping a living by selling scrap out of the dump, want to program, become citizens and escape the fetid slum lanes of Community 17. But if they don’t both make it, they will be eternally separated.
Can Jessia share her feelings with Isaias and risk their friendship? Can she allow herself to love a man that might remain a pleb forever? Can he?
Avert a war. Find love. Discover magic.
Will Bel and Shireen sort out their relationship before it destroys them?
Bel, a wizard’s apprentice, accompanies his master to the capital city to help negotiate a truce between warring kingdoms, but he finds much more than he bargained for. Shireen, Bel’s long lost love, is there and their romance is quickly rekindled. There’s only one problem with that though--magicians are to remain celibate under penalty of excommunication. It is the trade that every wizard must make; to join the royal priesthood and become a magician one must forsake all relationships and sacrifice love to gain knowledge. Are they strong enough to give each other up once again?
The Dragon’s Castle was fantastic. His unique settings and the way he works with the Wizard archetype make him a must read in this genre. 5 Stars!
A.N. Meade—Author of Marked
Finalist: 2014 The Wishing shelf Book Awards, Young Adult Category
A young adult fantasy-romance-drama series full of the kind of zombie-filled action that will keep you turning pages and up late at night. Perfect for middle schoolers, young adults and adults who love magic, magicians, wizards, swords and sorcery. The book is full of drama and comedy, and is the prelude to an intense romantic drama in the following books of the series.
Bel, a graduate from the Academy of Arts and Magic, takes the final vow of celibacy, sacrificing his love for Shireen, in order to be an apprentice. After that traumatic experience, Bel attempts to start his new life as an apprentice under a salty, old, wise-cracking wizard name Nes'egrinon.
Immediately they are thrust into an adventure when a tear in reality rips open allowing the dead to spill out of the underworld. Bel and his master must journey under the shadow of darkness to try to discover how the fabric of reality has been rent, tearing open a gateway to the underworld and allowing the zombie horde to walk among the living. Who did it and why? Was it intentional? Can they defeat them? Can they close the rift? Can a teenager learning the ways of magic and an ancient archmage long past his prime stop the darkness, close the breach and save all reality?
Laced with signature Cardona humor … hard choices to be made… and a few handy life's lessons … at the sharp end of the bloodthirsty undead hordes' teeth, which certainly keeps his motivation and the overall pace of the book at a rollicking clip. …A most worthwhile read.
Marc Secchia, author of The Pygmy Dragon and the Shapeshifter Dragons series
A different take on magic, complete with valuable life lessons, Christian principles, and a good dose of humor! A thoroughly entertaining read sure to please middle graders!
Kirsten Jany, author of Enter to Win
Finalist: 2014 The Wishing shelf Book Awards, Middle Grades Category
Winner: 2014 Inde BRAG Medallion
A fourteen year old and an odd character dressed as Santa Claus attempt to stop aliens and save the planet.
When Edwin cuts his finger, dripping a few drops of blood onto a bone-colored tracking device he becomes a target of a group of aliens that think he holds the secret to the human race’s defeat. The only person who seems to know what to do is a fat man wearing a Santa Claus suit and he somehow seems to know just a little too much.
Who is he and why does he know so much? Where did the aliens come from and what are they after? Can a Fourteen year old wandering the cold, empty streets of Manhattan late on Christmas Eve and an odd character dressed as Santa Claus stop the aliens, save the planet and discover the true meaning of Christmas?
Love it. The right mix of humor, danger and whimsy
Patricia Hamill, author of The Shadows of Valor Series
This was definitely one of the most creative children’s stories I’ve ever read, and a far more clever approach to explain the existence of Santa than the usual North Pole story!
Kirsten Jany, author of Enter to Win
A mash-up of a Christmas tale about a dysfunctional family coming together with science fiction with a darker edge. I liked the period and the setting of the book as well as the retro feel of the situations and the conflicts. The pace of the novel was brisk with events moving forward smoothly and the reader constantly engaged with new developments.
Vardan Partamyan, author of I, the Provocetuer
A welcome breath of fresh air… told in a lively style. This book shines with freshness and I feel is a delightful addition to the canon of Christmas stories.
Marc Secchia, author of The Pygmy Dragon and the Shapeshifter Dragons series
A fun adventure for young readers… Even as an adult, I found this story enjoyable. Highly recommended!
Lana Axe, author of A Story of River Series
Secret Dimensional Transport Machine
Gabriella, a teenage girl, tries to discover herself in a futuristic world of genetic modification, extreme sports and new science. Oh, and there just happens to be a dimensional portal too.
This science fiction tale sizzled and sparkled with energy, ingenuity, imagination, and a wonderfully heightened sense of adventure! --B White, Amazon
Called "Compelling," "so good!" and a "Great story that draws you in." Reviewers are saying, "I was completely hooked."
Gabriella, a teenage girl who recently lost her genetics researcher father in suspicious circumstances, discovers that she is a surprisingly good athlete and the only “non-modified” able to compete with genetically modified super-athletes. Did she become this way because of a genetic modification experiment her father conducted? Who killed her father and why? Are they after her? (Hint: They are.)
Due to her notoriety, a scientist presents her the opportunity to be the spokesperson for his new invention, the Dimensional Transport Machine. With NuGen on her heels and her father's ominous warnings, Gabriella is on a quest to find out her true identity and solve the mystery of her dad's murder. Using the machine unleashes a bizarre and entertaining series of events that helps Gabriella discover who she is and who she wants to be.
This book is a real page turner that kept me up several nights in a row! A cleverly crafted story that raises strong ethical questions, it is a welcome break from the usual high school dramas with their cliché characters. I rate it a fully deserved 5 stars!
Kirsten Jany, author of Enter to Win
Good, solid, clean sci-fi for YA and above, which does not pull punches when it comes to the big questions.
Marc Secchia, author of The Pygmy Dragon and the Shapeshifter Dragons series
Gabriella and The Curse of The Black Spot
In book one of the NuGen series, Gabriella, a teenage girl tries to discover who killed her father and why, all the while trying to avoid her mother's boyfriend, Smith, who seems to be unusually interested in her DNA and escape NuGen, who she thinks killed her father and are after her next. Finally, while trapped in between dimensions in the transport machine, she is contaminated with black spots.
The black spots are affecting Gabriella's personality and disposition. Can she remove the black spots received in another dimension when the dimensional transport machine project has been shut down? What are they and why do Kyle's followers all have them?
An aging disease appears that affects modified atheletes including some of Gabriella's closest friends. Can her father's lost research provide the solution? Can she find it before NuGen? If Gabriella is modified, will she be next to fall to the disease?
And the biggest mystery of all is answered. Who is the Void man? Is it her father's ghost?
Find out the answer to these questions and more in book two of the NuGen Series.
The Worthy Apprentice (Coming 2016)
After the strange and fascinating events that transpired at Sha'mont, Bel and Shireen are sent to the Worthy Apprentice Trials to investigate and discover how far the avian plot extends. It is really nice to meet up with all their old classmates from the University of Arts and Magic. Until people start dying.
The Worthy Apprentice is a fantasy murder mystery mixed in with a daring heist.
Can Bel and Shireen continue to hide their love in front of the people who know them best? Can they stop the murderer before it's too late? Can they foil the avian plot before they steal the relic?
How to Pray for People for Divine Healing
A hands-on guide giving instruction and anecdotal, experiential stories of situations where miracle working faith was released effectively through prayer for divine healing and deliverance, this book would suit you well as a Bible study aid or personal development guide.
Does prayer work?
One reviewer said, "God's Holy Spirit is in this book He was touching my heart as I read and prayed through it. (I would just weep in some sections)"
Another said, "This book is dripping with anointing."
This book is based of approximately five years of my experience in working in prayer tent ministries at various food and clothing outreaches, revival meetings and church prayer meetings. The book shows what worked and what didn't. The purpose of this book is to help you unlock miracle working faith in your prayers so that you and your family, friends, loved ones and even complete strangers will be healed, set free and delivered.
An Introduction to a New Relationship with God
A Biblical study of the Indwelling of the Holy Spirit, comparing and contrasting it to both salvation and being filled with the Holy Spirit.
Becoming saved, receiving salvation, accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, receiving the Holy Spirit, Holy Fire, the unction of the Holy Spirit, the anointing of the Holy Spirit, having a spiritual encounter or the indwelling of the Holy Spirit: are they all the same thing? If there are differences then what are they?
Using direct references from the Bible and true personal stories, this book provides the necessary knowledge to receive the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and maintain a Filling of the Holy Spirit (there is a difference between baptism and filling). Read this book to find out how!
God will only take you as high as you are willing to go. It is up to you. This book shows you the differences between these different experiences, relationships, steps or levels and the benefits of attaining a higher level. There is a closer walk with God, the indwelling of the Spirit, and it is available to you right now.