Kathi On The Moon Beam

The year was 1959, the dawn of a new and the most exciting era in the history of the world, but no one knew it yet. Least of all a young couple very much in love with two beautiful baby daughters headed for Italy on a secret mission to protect Europe from our Cold War enemy, that evil empire, the Soviet Union. It was during this time I began all the stories of Kathi on the Moonbeam. The stories remain in the family to this day.

Ava is about to turn 12. She is also about to discover an extraordinary secret about her long-lost mother—and herself. This thoroughly compelling, gorgeously told tale begins as the weather turns warm enough to swim in the local lake, Ava is looking forward to a lazy summer, and her crush, Jeff, is most definitely taking notice of her. Everything is going beautifully for Ava. . . until she starts to grow feathers. Is she some kind of freak? Or something truly special?

The members of a family celebrate the arrival of a new baby.

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Byron has everything. Good looks, money, a great career as an artist and a secret he thinks his family doesn’t share. Byron likes to play games, but not the kind you expect. He is owner of a specialized club called Tightly Bound and he enjoys playing the role of Dom. The only thing that is missing from his life is a submissive of his own and someone to love. During the traditional Grant winter fundraiser, Taylor a young and beautiful friend of Jamie's gets ill from a bite she received at a different club. Byron realizes he may have found a match in her and he recognizes characteristics in her that are common to a submissive. He soon offers her a private invitation to his club, where he can meet her in a place they are both comfortable. Soon Byron realizes he wants much more than a submissive, he wants love. Her love. But the people she works for are crooks and Taylor just happens on to their scheme and is afraid she’ll turn out like one of the characters in the movie, The Firm – A dead woman. Going to Ronnie Grant she gets the help she needs, but is it enough? Is it too late? Byron and Taylor come together in ways that both amaze and astound even them. But can their love and that of his family save her?

A little cowpoke is lulled to sleep by dreams of the sights and sounds of the Western landscape at night.

Keeper was born in the ocean, and she believes she is part mermaid. So as a ten-year-old she goes out looking for her mother—an unpredictable and uncommonly gorgeous woman who swam away when Keeper was three—and heads right for the ocean, right for the sandbar where mermaids are known to gather. But her boat is too small for the surf—and much too small for the storm that is brewing on the horizon. Kathi Appelt follows her award-winning and New York Times bestselling novel The Underneath with this stunning, mysterious, and breathtaking tale of a girl who outgrows fairy tales just a little too late—and learns in the end that there is nothing more magical and mythical than love itself.

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