Books We Love Author Nicole Givens Kurtz

As children, Sarah and her sister, Amana, along with hundreds of others

were abducted and taken to Solis, and placed in the soul cages. After many years, Sarah

is rescued from the cages, reincarnated into flesh, and taken to Veloris, the ice planet.

Marion, her rescuer tells of the Antiqk Oracle's prophesy of a savior for not only Solis,

but the entire Pixlis galaxy. Will Sarah fulfill the Oracle's call for a savior?

Janne Allen of Knowbetter declares, "Ms. Kurtz has a great talent for building the plot layer by layer, first with the idea of cages holding the souls of doomed slaves, then of Sarah's plight in worrying about her sister, all while a love intrigue involving Sarah, Marion, and Zykeiah plays out. Will the warring planets discover that Valek has been double-crossing them? And where exactly does the drug Solance come from? Do the Minister Knights stand a chance against Valek and his henchmen? What is Sarah's larger purpose in the galaxy? Many questions, I know, and most are answered satisfactorily, and as for the one that isn't, the epilogue leaves us with a juicy twist and the promise of a sequel. The Soul Cages is highly imaginative, gripping fantasy. I highly recommend it! " Read the rest of this wonderful review at Knowbetter.com

Aurora Browne begins her latest assignment with the Williamses as she has with every other assignment since she was sold into slavery at the age of eight by her mother. She performs her duties as a candidate, women who produce children for wealthy women who can not. When Browne meets Bain, the Williamses' butler, she learns of a world beneath New England Tre. It is a place of freedom. As her love grows for Bain, will she risk her life for freedom? The last attempt almost cost her life, and Browne has the scars to prove it.

Tracy Johnson has had another miscarriage, her third. Emotionally devastated, she struggles with the reality that she may never have children of her own. Can she marry her fiancé when she isn't a complete woman?

How can she ever begin to think of herself as a woman, when she can't do the one thing that separates men from women?

When the death of a friend's mother forces Tracy to return to her hometown, old friends, old flames, secrets, and surprises unravel to reveal that Tracy isn't the only one struggling with what defines a complete woman. Leaving her childhood home in a whirl of betrayal, lust and lies, Tracy returns to Chicago once again battling against her failings and inadequacies until finally realizing that she is the only one who can define herself as complete.

Over a year has passed since Aurora, who was once Browne, escaped the Candidacy with her love, Bain to Canada. Life amongst the Resistance; however, does not bring peace for any extended amount of time as Ren, Angel, Bain and Aurora find out in Zephyr Unfolding.

The Resistance cause is one that Second-in-Command Ren has fought for most of his adult life. But when a surprise attack results in Angel’s abduction and threatens his rank, he is relieved and somewhat dismayed that he isn’t demoted. Instead he is given a new assignment: meet with the mayor of Zephyr and convince him to join the Resistance. Once Ren reaches Zephyr things aren’t what they seem.

Before long he finds himself imprisoned onboard a United World Council ship for an assassination he did not commit. Scheduled to die in three days, Ren’s crew must put their lives, their morals and their vows on the line to save him.

Cybil Lewis, a private inspector in the year 2146, is no stranger to family dysfunction. But when her inspector-in-training, Jane, asks Cybil to investigate the disappearance of her cousin, Cybil is tossed into a world of political ambition, drugs, and deception on such a grand scale, she barely survives with her life. This case will take her and Jane far into the reaches of the divided states and into the upper crest of political turmoil that lies in the wake of the Great War.