Star's father banishes her to another world, similar to her own but with minor differences. Star begins her journey to find a way back to her world. Will she find what she seeks? Star is a stubborn child. All of her life, Star has been used to compressing her emotions to keep her magic under control. During her journey, Star learns how complex emotions really can be. Most importantly, love.A Fire Emblem FanFicThe Dark Magician Girl Book 1"The world surrounding me fades away into darkness. My father's voice slowly disappears. His touch is no longer there. I hear nothing. I feel nothing. I see nothing. I feel my mind descending into darkness and my mind slowly being consumed. It feels as though it is an eternity. I start to feel less and less, then my emotion is completely gone. I remember nothing.I open my eyes. I see nothing. The edges of my vision are red and fuzzy. There is a black figure standing before me, and is smiling with a shrieking laughter filling the air.'There you are, my child,' "~The Dark Magician Girl~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Contains Fire Emblem Characters and my OCs in a Fire Emblem WorldStar's father banishes her to another world, similar to her own but with minor differences.Star begins her journey to find a way back to her world. Will she find what she seeks?Star is a stubborn child. All of her life, Star has been used to compressing her emotions to keep her magic under control. During her journey, Star learns how complex emotions really can be.Most importantly, love.Will she learn to control her emotions? Or will she be lost in the alternate realm forever?

Ordinary Girl

The true story of runaway child with a secret. A devastating discovery that changes everything.Melissa is a sweet-natured girl with a disturbing habit of running away and mixing with the wrong crowd. After she's picked up by the police, and with nowhere else to go, she is locked in a secure unit with young offenders. Social Services beg specialist foster carer Angela to take her in, but can she keep the testing twelve-year-old safe? And will Angela ever learn what, or who, drove Melissa to run and hide, sometimes in the dead of night?The Girl in the Dark is the sixth book from well-loved foster carer and Sunday Times bestselling author Angela Hart. This is a true story that shares the tale of one of the many children she has fostered over the years. Angela's stories show the difference that quiet care, a watchful eye and sympathetic ear can make to children who have had more difficult upbringings than most.

An award-winning, internationally bestselling author makes her American debut with this taut, riveting domestic drama with the compulsive intensity of The Good Girl, The Pocket Wife, and The Stranger, about a long-lost brother convicted of a horrifying crime and a sister's fight to clear his name.A single mother and lawyer, Iris has a colorful caseload, a young son with behavior issues, and a judgmental mother.She also has a brother—shocking news she uncovers by accident. Why did her mother lie to her for her entire life? Why did she hide the existence of Ray Boelens from her?Curious about this sibling she has never known, Iris begins to search for long-buried truths. What she discovers surprises—and horrifies—her. Her older brother is autistic—and in prison for brutally murdering his neighbor and her daughter.Visiting Ray, she meets a man who looks heartbreakingly like her own son. A man who is devoted to his tropical fish...

A gorgeous memoir of an unthinkable life: a young woman writes of the sensitivity to light that has forced her to live in darkness, and of the love that has saved her. "Something is afoot within me that I do not understand, the breaking of a contract that I thought could not be broken, a slow perverting of my substance." Anna was living a normal life. She was ambitious and worked hard; she had just bought an apartment; she was falling in love. But then she started to develop worrying symptoms: her face felt like it was burning whenever she was in front of the computer. Soon this progressed to an intolerance of fluorescent light, then of sunlight itself. The reaction soon spread to her entire body. Now, when her symptoms are at their worst, she must spend months on end in a blacked-out room, losing herself in audio books and elaborate word games in an attempt to ward off despair. During periods of relative remission she can venture...