Böcker av Carolyn Houghton

This volume is the collected poetry of Carolyn L. Houghton. She wrote the majority of these works over the last twenty years of her life. The subjects range from reminiscences of her childhood, interactions with family and pets to commentary on the political state of the world. A few poems address the trials and tribulations of the Covid Pandemic. Others are reflections on the Tarot cards and the seasons.

Sherry Ramhill, British veterinarian extraordinaire, never expected to be banished to the Colonies, a dead zone for magick. Or so she believes. Moving to the sleepy New York town of Waterton, she expects an easy transition into her new career as Director of the Waterton Zoo. Her new position tosses her into the magickal world of the Midnight Crew, a mysterious population who frequent The Waterline, a bar along the docks of the busy shipping port.When heavy rains overwhelm Waterton''s antiquated water system, out-of-town developers offer to restore the city in exchange for the zoo property leaving the animals including Billy Boy the bison, and Gula the wolverine doubly threatened. To save her companions, Sherry turns to a seven-foot lizard with advanced degrees, the enigmatic bar owner and his brother-in-arms, a Norwegian magickal cat and a host of trolls and gargoyles members of the Midnight Crew. And she must find her own suppressed magick.With time running out, will these motley heroes save Waterton Zoo and keep it above water?

Someone … or something …stalks Sami, a threat she’s known her entire life. Upon marrying a talented drummer and discovering her family manor, Foxhaven, she believes she’s found safety. Her security shatters when they learn a powerful sorcerer from the past hunts her using the demons under his command.Fortunately, Foxhaven has magic of her own.As family and friends arrive for the holidays, they uncover mystical assailants and powerful curses. A summoning spell gone awry sends the party through time and space to where the sorcerer readies his attack.With Sami and her friends' lives hanging in the balance, they must each embrace the secret world of magic before time runs out.