Bøger af Constance Sprague

A Quirky Fairytale for the Green at Heart Betrayed, angry, and newly divorced, Alice Owens found solace in a beautiful garden she planted on the abandoned lot next to her tiny house in Falls Church, Virginia. But when a developer threatens to pave over her paradise, Alice has no way to stop the corporate bulldozer until a mysterious Green Man steps out of a tree and into her life. Fergus, one of the legendary immortal Green Men whose job it is to nurture and protect all green and growing things of Earth, offers to help Alice protect the garden. She is skeptical of the Green Man's claims, but unable to ignore the way her body and soul respond to his. As Alice and Fergus work together to prevent the destruction of the garden, the developer pushes ahead with his agenda. While Alice's teenage sons take opposite sides in the conflict, her ex-husband schemes to put an end to her garden and her new romance in the hope of winning her back. But when the Green Man casts a magical Web of Protection to shield the garden, a firestorm of media attention rages out of control, and Alice must risk losing everything she holds dear to save the one man she can't keep. "Imaginative and charming ... love, magic and fascinating characters. ... 4 Stars." -Romantic Times Book Reviews

In "On The Wing," the final volume of The Greening trilogy, a young woman joins forces with her demon-fighter mother to battle crazed arsonists bent on world destruction. Eva Carter, who ran away from home as a teenager to find the father she never knew, finally learns the truth about Shiloh Carter's "day job" when she returns to help her mother in the struggle to repair damage caused by destructive magic sown in the Greening. In the process, Eva reconnects with her emotionally wounded father, her haunted grandfather, and a winsome sprite with otherworldly Green connections. But when Destiny comes calling, Eva and Shiloh join forces with a ragtag crew of not quite superheroes as they head into the final battle. Sooner or later one of them will have to pay the ultimate price to save the world from going up in smoke.

Eel MacGregor, a young man with music in his soul and confusion in his past, never expected to experience magic in his own life. Having witnessed first hand the power of real magic back in Virginia, where he became friends with a Green Man stranded in this world, Eel believed magic was best left to those who understood it. Arriving in Seattle, Eel falls hard for Callie Linden, a girl known to locals as the Goddess of Green Lake. Callie grew up beside the Puget Sound, and learned to sail before she learned to read. The youngest of three sisters who sing together, Callie's passion for the sea was nurtured by the fantastic stories her mother used to tell her before she disappeared. The conventions of ordinary romance don't mean much to Callie until Eel comes into her life. But when Callie and Eel join forces to liberate an orphaned baby sea otter from a public aquarium, they get in over their heads, and it will take more than a few heartfelt protest songs to restore harmony to these troubled waters. All seems lost until Eel discovers magical power in the music he can only make with Callie.

In the vast shadowy reaches of the Pacific Northwest forest, Shiloh Carter's father has vanished. When official search efforts fail, Shiloh leaves everything behind to find her father. But after she infiltrates the eco-terrorist group that kidnapped him, she discovers that their power is rooted in another world where ancient magic still thrives, just around the cosmic corner from Earth. To rescue her father, Shiloh is forced to develop power of her own, and fast, because when dangerous magic gets loose on Earth she learns that the kidnappers were only pawns in a much larger game. As the Earth staggers toward chaos, Shiloh fights to save her father and stop the spread of toxic magic tangled At The Root.

Who can you trust if you can't trust your mother? When 12-year-old Eva Carter discovers that her mother Shiloh has been lying to her all her life, she runs away to find the truth and stumbles into a hidden world where magic thrives. In this sequel to "The Greening: At The Root," Eva learns a long hidden secret about the father she never knew. Born shortly after The Greening wiped out all the oil on Earth, Eva Carter has never seen a traffic jam. Raised in a quiet neighborhood in Washington, D.C., she's been sheltered from the worldwide chaos that followed the decimation of modern trade and travel systems. Eva has no idea that all these years her mother has been fighting a lonely losing battle to stem the spread of Deep Magic on Earth. But Shiloh's job gets a lot more complicated after she realizes her daughter has magic genes in her blood. As Eva's magic skill grows, her connection to humanity frays, and Shiloh fears the worst. But when Eva's reckless abuse of magic draws the attention of higher powers, Mother Earth retaliates to wash out the contagion, and Eva is left helpless and alone until she meets a mysterious orphaned child whose resilience helps Eva to understand that some truths are impossible to find until you look inside yourself.