Bøger af Dawn Greenfield Ireland

Katz' Cat is the first book of my new cozy mystery series. Here's what it's about: Jimmy Katz, a young journalist from the Big City, throws in the towel after he's robbed at gunpoint at a gas station. He finds a job at the Twinkle Independent News in Twinkle, Texas, 385 miles from the closest shopping mall.He settles into country life in the town of 3,000 at Mrs. Potts' boarding house with his Amazon parrot, Guppy, who has an extensive vocabulary.Three months into his new lifestyle, Jimmy discovers a tiny kitten he names Maddy. Then his life is turned topsy-turvey.The town matriarch, his long-lost aunt, names him her heir. Someone takes offense. Neither Jimmy, police chief Price, or his aunt Betty know if the threats are coming from the Big City or Twinkle.Mysterious messages on his laptop lead to a shocking discovery

Prophecy of Thol is the first book in the Thol series written by Dawn Greenfield Ireland and is similar in tone to the Chronicles of Narnia. It has received the following awards: Quarterfinalist Geneva International Science in Fiction Script Competition 1/13/2024Finalist Sensei Film Fest 12/11/2023Quarterfinalist Filmmatic Sci-Fi/Fantasy Awards 12/15/2023Semifinalist CLIMAX Critics Awards 5/18/2023Finalist MAGMA Film Festival (Hawaii) script award 4/19/2023Quarterfinalist PageTurner Screenplay Competition 3/28/2023Readers' Favorite Silver Star 2018Synopsis: >Victor Bennett, a well-known physicist, tells his young son Darren the true story about a young woman who disappeared in a blanket of fog in a parking lot at Katy Mills Mall in Katy, TX, just west of Houston, in broad daylight in plain sight of dozens of witnesses. Victor and another scientist, Stanley Daigle, investigated D'laine Jackson's disappearance, and what you will read here, is a blow-by-blow explanation. One minute, D'laine was walking ahead of her family to the minivan, and the next, she found herself on the ground staring up into the faces of creatures called Egroms, in an exotic world named Thol. The Egroms tell her they have awaited her arrival for eons, and that they must protect her from Jakla Bosakin, a blood thirsty Plotal. She is encouraged to believe in and trust her powers. She is clueless - she's just a regular teenager. The Egroms were expecting a warrior.

Love of Thol, book 3 in the Thol series by Dawn Greenfield Ireland.D'laine and Trakon are mushy in love. Brian and Jamie can barely stand to be around them. Stanley has a new girlfriend after many failed dating attempts. They are a perfect match.Thol is a welcome haven for Earthlings whose gifts benefit all Tholians. More Earthlings emigrate. They get to watch a baseball game between the Plotals and the Egroms.D'laine is snatched from a crestrider by a never-before seen insect-man. Trakon, Herish and the Ebscalon fleet pursue.Ekka gets sick. The large borjo appears to be on deaths door. Jamie is frantic. The Visionary, Ghury and D'laine determine what is wrong-poison! Ebscalon and the other kingdoms are in the direct path of a churling-a huge storm that surpasses any hurricane on Earth. Treachery comes on the eve of storm recovery, almost leading to war.They make the trip to the caves in the Aguberro mountains. Ghury discovers that Lee is the direct descendant of the King of Thol.

Gifts from Thol is the second book in the Thol series by Dawn Greenfield Ireland, followed by Love of Thol. At the end of Prophecy of Thol, D'laine returned to Earth leaving a broken-hearted Trakon behind on Thol. She returns to Thol with her family and one of the scientists who had investigated her disappearance from Texas.D'laine is happy that her family is settling in at the Egrom village and getting used to their new surroundings. She knows that Thol changes people from Earth who cross over so she's looking forward to finding out what their gifts will be.Lee and Stanley are on a quest to find Greg Claymore, the man who disappeared from Earth in 1952, returned in 1975 and left again.Victor, the scientist left behind on Earth, is frantic. His wife is terminally ill and he knows D'laine can heal her. He and Ben Joplin write a note and go to Coronado Beach where Claymore went through a portal. D'laine, Trakon and Stanley, bearing gifts, walk through the portal to Earth. But will they be able return to Thol? Will D'laine and Trakon get back in time to fulfill their marriage vows? Or, will they be stuck in a place that Trakon despises due to the noise, traffic, and pollution?The adventure continues.

Jimmy Katz wakes walloped with a cold, allergies, or the flu. Maddy, his cat, and Guppy, his Amazon parrot fret, but still demand breakfast. Mrs. Potts sends Jimmy over to the Wellness Center where Bill Hill sends the Katz-Diaz heir home with his special formula, Wellness in a Bottle. Brian, Jimmy's best friend, and Danny, his coworker at the Twinkle Independent News, come to visit, followed by Aunt Betty, the matriarch of Twinkle and Starlight County. Celebrity stops by, sees how awful Jimmy feels and tells him she'll be back later. The town drunk attacks Celebrity, and she ends up in a coma. When she resurfaces, a different reality has everyone concerned, especially Jimmy. After only three doses of Bill Hill's formula, Jimmy fully recovers. He stops by the Wellness Center to purchase two more bottles. When he arrives home, Maddy and Guppy attack the bag. Then Brian and Danny show up and tell him that someone was poisoned by that formula. The deranged poisoner has targeted more than Bill Hill's store. The Dime Water Foo(d) grocery store with the burnt out "d" in the sign, affectionately called the Foo, is shut down. It's the only grocery store within a 150-mile radius. Betty calls upon her army of volunteers and they transform the Starlight Ballroom into a grocery store. More businesses are shut down as tampered products send people to the hospital. Chief Kenton Price, Ramirez, and Celebrity have their hands full with trying to hunt down the elusive poisoner, along with help from the Feds. Through the investigation, they discover that forty years ago a terrible crime was committed and concealed. Jimmy and Ramirez uncover the details and they seek justice for the family. While eating at the Biggem Diner with Danny, Brian, Ramirez, and Celebrity, Jimmy notices the poisoner in action. Ramirez and Celebrity take action. The culprit is arrested.

Lee began having strange dreams shortly after the trip to the cave at the crest of Ingosaquille, on the Aguberro mountains. Ethaderia woke one morning to discover that Lee sported a trimmed beard. He didn't have one the night before.Ghury proclaimed Lee was the direct descendant of King Jangston. No one in the palace at Ebscalon had ever heard of him. Research uncovered that several hundred paths ago, King Jangston ruled all of Thol-not just the Ciertrons of Ebscalon.Everyone agreed something strange was going on with Lee. Finally, after the eight kingdoms, along with Ta'Byu'Vohon and the Cember Forest villages recovered from the devastating churling, Ebscalon introduced D'laine and Trakon's twins: Jesslin and Jor-Von.D'laine shocks everyone at the event, including her family and friends, with the startling revelation about evolutionary and physiological changes to come. Not everyone is happy about that.Foota sticks her head in Jamie's window. One of the twins needs help!The boys discover things that look like cantaloupes. They bring one back to the palace and Kitry freaks out. The Jackson children and their close friends get into trouble with everyone!A jarvust threatens the area.The Trangula storm the gates of Ebscalon. This is the first act of war since the Great War of Taylon.