Author: marilynpeake
All that glitters isn’t gold. All that shimmers isn’t innocent. In her sophomore year at Ocean View College, an institution for training those with magical abilities, Shade is assigned to the Ghost Whisperers House. Likewise, her friends are assigned to houses dedicated to their unique types of magical ability. No longer freshmen, they get to see more of the inner workings of Ocean View: the … Ocean View: the good, the bad and the ugly. Shade faces several major challenges this year. She supports her selkie friend Apple as she undergoes a difficult surgery. She helps solve the mystery of…
Semi-Finalist, Young Adult category, 2020 Kindle Book Awards. With all the other fish in the sea, your first crush needn’t be human. Shade and her best friend, Kai Zahnii, begin their freshman year at Ocean View College. Located on a secret island off the coast of California, Ocean View is a special place specifically designed to train students with magical abilities. Shade is a ghost … abilities. Shade is a ghost whisperer. Kai is an empath and healer with the innate ability to become a Navajo shaman. On campus, their worldview is expanded as they meet witches, faeries, selkies, shapeshifters…
Semi-Finalist, Young Adult category, 2019 Kindle Book Awards. As if being a ghost whisperer in a trailer park isn’t weird enough, skinwalkers take things to a whole new level of strange. Running away from her demons rather than facing them, Shade’s mother moves them once again to a new place—this time a trailer park on the outskirts of Roswell, New Mexico. Hiding in plain sight among UFO … in plain sight among UFO festivals and rumors of alien abductions, paranormal creatures live there by their own rules. Shade accepts her destiny as a ghost whisperer with the help of her…
Finalist, Young Adult Fiction category, 2015 National Indie Excellence Book Awards. Shade: Girl on a hero’s journey, going from smart-ass to badass. Thanks to her offbeat mother, Shade’s full name is Galactic Shade Griffin. Having a name like that while being the new girl in school is pretty much catnip for bullies. The summer before Shade’s junior year of high school, her mother breaks up with … school, her mother breaks up with yet another boyfriend and moves them once again to a new town. This time, they move into a dilapidated old house where Shade has an entire attic…