The Reweaving: Sage Seed Chronicles

The Reweaving: Sage Seed Chronicles
Author: Holly Barbo
Publisher: Paper Gold Publishing
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2016-07-22
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

There are no monsters on Ose. People can be monstrous enough. A major event of cataclysmic proportions threatens Ose. The damage done by false gossip and accusations has infected people’s minds, and a misguided but deadly witch hunt hinders the remaining sages’ ability to concentrate on correcting the planet’s imbalance. Their one chance to save the civilization comes with the next eclipse, but there are too few of them left, and very little time. The people, the weather, and even the planet itself seem to fight them at every step. Can Drune and the other sages reweave the fabric of their world before the eclipse tears it apart?

The Unraveling: Sage Seed Chronicles Book 3

The Unraveling: Sage Seed Chronicles Book 3
Author: Holly Barbo
Publisher: Paper Gold Publishing
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2016-06-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

There are no monsters on Ose. People can be monstrous enough. Something is shaking Erin’s world. Freak storms and disastrous earthquakes ravage the land, and perfectly healthy people are suddenly dying. Are these harmless coincidences or deliberate, connected events? Erin's parents die of a mysterious fever, but she isn’t fooled. It is clearly murder. Why would someone want to kill a weaver and his wife? Besides, Erin can feel that same malevolent energy hunting her down. Is that a new skill she didn’t know she had? With no time to grieve, Erin joins a merchant caravan for protection and to give herself time to solve the puzzle. Who killed her parents? Why are they trying to kill her, too? And why is the planet unraveling?

The Founders: Sage Seed Chronicles Book 1

The Founders: Sage Seed Chronicles Book 1
Author: Holly Barbo
Publisher: Paper Gold Publishing
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2016-03-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

There are no monsters on Ose. People can be monstrous enough. Disaster strikes the beautiful world of Ose. Marisily is one of the Sages who can help heal the planet when nuclear winter pushes the civilization back to the brink of destruction. Only she doesn’t know her own powers yet. It is survival of the fittest as vicious outlaws destroy all that remains, kidnapping, enslaving and killing those weaker than themselves. With a bounty on her head, alone and betrayed by her own father, can a young woman find the strength and wisdom necessary to rally the good people of Ose and rebuild their culture?

The Lost: Sage Seed Chronicles Book 5

The Lost: Sage Seed Chronicles Book 5
Author: Holly Barbo
Publisher: Paper Gold Publishing
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2016-09-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

There are no monsters on Ose. People can be monstrous enough. Long-lost artifacts lure people from a lost population out on a secret quest. At the same time, an unexpectedly strong winter storm forces Erin to take refuge in an isolated cabin. Unbeknownst to her, this was the last known location of the missing items that Kai, one of the lost, is looking for. Dismayed to find Erin at the cabin, he reacts in the only logical way: Kill any witnesses to protect his people. With a ferocious blizzard ravaging the realm, will the sages be able to prevent bloodshed? And what would it take to avoid war with THE LOST ones?

The Healers: Sage Seed Chronicles Book 2

The Healers: Sage Seed Chronicles Book 2
Author: Holly Barbo
Publisher: Paper Gold Publishing
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2016-04-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

There are no monsters on Ose. People can be monstrous enough. A virulent disease sweeps through the budding civilization on the planet Ose. As people are dropping like flies, the healers’ guild is not making headway in finding a cure. Just as every hope seems lost, young Ree comes into her sage powers. Despite having to fight the disapproval from those who think her too young and inexperienced, she comes up with a cure from unusual natural sources. The race is on to get ahead of the epidemic. Time is tight, and a swindler’s ‘miracle cure’ makes matters worse. With Ree and the healers’ lives in danger, is the whole planet doomed?

The Dragil: Broken Magic

The Dragil: Broken Magic
Author: Holly Barbo
Publisher: Paper Gold Publishing
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2016-05-12
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

When Willum, an apprentice book maker, has a nasty fall, he loses all of his memories…including the strictures concerning protective magic for the exquisite miniature dragons called Dragilios. Not knowing he is breaking the magic law, and sending the little Dragil, Malle, into deadly peril, he draws the friendly, little dragil. The moment the picture is finished the protective spell shatters. Her anguished cry as she disappears restores his memory. Devastated at what he has done and wanting to right the wrong or die trying, Willum undertakes a dangerous quest into the malignant world of the giant leather-winged dragons. Can he find her in time before she is ripped apart and eaten? If he stays too long in that lethal land, he becomes stone. The hourglass sands are slipping away toward the doom of the boy and the fragile little dragil. Can he save them both?

Vortexes

Vortexes
Author: Holly Barbo
Publisher: Paper Gold Publishing
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2019-12-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

"[feels] like an action adventure movie!" A Dystopian Urban Fantasy The resistance needed an opportunity. The hurricane provided the distraction they hoped for. With very little time and a need for total secrecy, he can’t help the woman in the cage… until he learns who she is. Can they escape in the allotted time? Desperate times have come to Emma Maya Ando’s country. A totalitarian regime with no tolerance for deviation has marginalized thousands. Neither physical exceptionality nor freedom of thought has a place. All is conformity. But Maya doesn’t conform, and time is running out on her ability to conceal her condition. Can Maya find a cure before she is swept up in a purge… or will she take her secret to the grave?

The Tin of Honey

The Tin of Honey
Author: Holly Barbo
Publisher: Paper Gold Publishing
Total Pages: 29
Release: 2016-05-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

A Dystopian Quick Read “Captivating look at the future” “Another must read from Holly Barbo.” ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Stories 2016 Semi-Finalist Life is tough for Zoe in her changing world. As a small child, her voice can never be heard and she may as well be invisible. Except as a slave. The Tin of Honey is a dystopian tale which was originally published in The Writers’ Stuff: A Multi-Genre Anthology, and later in Holly’s own short story collection, Tendrils. The story has been expanded to a length suitable for a Quick Read book.

Tendrils

Tendrils
Author: Holly Barbo
Publisher: Paper Gold Publishing
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2016-01-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Stories come from any number of places. One could start from a memory, a photo in a magazine or from pondering a news item and wondering, "What if?"

Letters to Chris

Letters to Chris
Author: Holly Barbo
Publisher: Paper Gold Publishing
Total Pages: 111
Release:
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

Everyday laughter and communications with loved ones can change between heartbeats. Joy becomes hollow. Loss takes its toll. The last two years have increased the number of people coping with loss. For an author used to taking words and making them her own, Holly found one way; she wrote her beloved husband letters. A burden bared is a burden shared.