Shattered Echoes
A 2024 Realm Award-winning novella
Cole Rainer just wants to get his missing father back and restore his broken family.
One year ago, Cole’s dad walked through the portal in his grandma’s basement and never came back. Despite the danger of leaving a passage to an unstable world open, Cole refuses to close the portal – instead standing guard in the basement, isolated from his family, desperately hoping somehow his father survived.
But as the portal begins to crumble, it threatens to take their home with it. Before Cole closes the passage, he receives a mysterious SOS message from his father. Cole has one day to rescue him before the port decays and fractures their world beyond repair.
But Cole’s world is already fractured, and his brother starts to fear that the voice may not be their missing father after all – but something else.
I write YA fantasy to inspire weary fighters who had to grow up quickly
Itβs hard to find stories that speak to weariness that comes from daily (but heavy) challenges
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