About the Author

Helen Lloyd Montgomery has been a writer since the third grade when she successfully negotiated a deal with her teacher to write stories using her weekly spelling words rather than write them out ten times each. She and her cat Turbo Tasha currently reside in Minnesota, where Helen is driven by the bitter winter weather to keep warm by exercising her fingers over a hot keyboard.

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People often ask me, "How do you write something as vast, complex, and totally imaginary as a novel?" I always answer...

"I dunno. It's something that just sorta happens."

 


In progess: Angela Dark and the Curse of the Gypsy Coin



What?! No! It's a working title. Expected completion Fall, 2009

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Skinwalker Moon

Love. Magic. Terror.

Sara Sawyer is swept from her feet by the Indian traditionalist known only as "Hawk." Mysterious and mystical, he enshrouds her in a world of magic...until one day, with little explanation, he returns to the forests that had formerly been his life.


Two years pass. Sara, a reporter, is sent to cover an unusual killing-a man has been found dead with a look of screaming terror on his face. Sara senses there's more to the killing than meets the eye but rejects the notion that repeatedly suggests itself: that the actual cause of death was something supernatural.


That night, at the height of a fierce storm, Hawk returns, bringing with him the disturbing tale of a skinwalker: a dreadful spirit creature he claims is responsible for the killing. But in rejecting a supernatural premise, Sara is forced to face the possibility that Hawk himself may be the killer…

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Purgatory

The ultimate identity theft.

Colin Springfield has disappeared. Richard Delaney, a man with a strange tale of a frightening new technology, has surfaced in his place.

According to Delaney, Springfield is being held in "mental stasis" in a place known as Purgatory. Only Delaney knows where Purgatory is, and he must return there himself in order to force a reversal of a secret government experiment...or they'll both die when it fails.

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The Osecca Option

Theirs was a match made in a dungeon.

Osecca del Mar has a problem. The only child of Corbett del Mar (known in certain circles as The Raven) is trying to make her way in the world by carrying on the family name and profession.

A simple enough ambition for a young maiden whose father is a fletcher or a potter. However, Osecca's father, and his father before him, were torturers---a difficult and challenging position for even the strongest of men. But because she's a female, the head of the Torturers Guild refuses her admittance. This, based on his opinion that torturing is strictly a male profession. And let's face it. Working as a freelancer just isn't the best gig in town.

What's a girl to do? How is she supposed to work under these circumstances? Can Osecca find a way to convince the head of the guild that she's capable of doing the job? Only one thing is certain. Her only friend and confidant, Ace Blackthorn, doesn't believe she is.

Rated PG for slight nudity. Hehe!

Available soon from Mundania Press. Really.
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