J. S. Frankel

High school graduate Paul Coleman's life is anything but ordinary. It has been only a few months since he, Myrna Trillian, his girlfriend, and her father, Montague, an Elementalist/magician, destroyed a demon named Hekla that wanted Myrna for a purpose almost too diabolical to believe. Hekla had used the power of sound to kill Paul's best friend, and her attack left Paul with very little ability to hear. Montague is now gone, having died in the final...

Kyle Toombs, seventeen, is about to walk the race of his life. Suffering from the mental and physical aftereffects of a terrible accident that almost took his life, bullied at school, he enters a contest in order to show that he's capable of doing the impossible. The contest is at a local hotel, and the rules are simple-walk up to the fifty-ninth floor and then down again. Rule number two is that he must have a partner, and his partner comes in the...

Greg Rosanoff and Rhonda Klimpt, seventeen, orphans and lifelong companions who live with their foster mother, stumble upon two rings in their hometown of Camas County, Washington. The rings aren't ordinary rings. They have the power to grant flight, form protective shields, and more. Greg and Rhonda decide to use them to right a few wrongs and help the police oust evil in their city. Call it simplistic. That is what they want the most. However, problems...

For Nelson Benjamin, former juvenile offender, seeing Mara Lontez, an alien come to Earth in a role to do good, in action, is one thing. Meeting her is another, and running from the law, well, that's a different story altogether. Nelson Benjamin, eighteen, the owner of a criminal record who only wants a fresh start in life, is given his chance by Mara Lontez, an alien come to Earth, and also by a shadowy government agency known as the Agency that...

Mitch Kessler, teenage high school dropout, jobless and mostly friendless, lives a life of solitude, but not by choice. Endowed with the ability to bring wings out of his body as well as claws, and transform himself into a fierce creature of the night, he's picked up a nickname from the general public that he hates: gargoyle. However, that's the least of his worries. His girlfriend, Callie, can't keep her genders straight, his best friend is a spinning...

Asgarthus (Az) Anderson, Portland teen, is slowly going blind and there is nothing he or medical science can do to stop it. While he tries to deal with his impending loss of sight, he finds out that he has developed another ability-that of a form of psychometry. In Az's case, he can see people and events in objects that have been touched by strangers, but only the most recent happenings. His ability amazes and frightens him, and at first, he doesn't...

Mitch Kessler, gargoyle, is back, along with his girlfriend, Callie, a former gender shifter, his best friend, Joe Chambers, a spinning top, and Neil, their rock-man sometime ally. Mitch and Joe help the police force of Independence, Oregon, fight crime, but their efforts go totally unreported by everyone. While that bothers Mitch, what bothers him more is his best friend's rapid aging. Joe is dying, and no one seems to know how to stop it. Except...

A choice to be made, and a price to be paid. Sometimes, doing the right thing means paying the ultimate price. Linden Lampkin, fifteen, ignored by an uncaring father, bullied and harassed by his peers, almost meets his end one night in an alleyway. The victim of a random mugging, he enters a portal into a parallel universe, a universe very much like ours. Linden ends up at the Tower, a hangout where a group of very unusual people-the Ultras-live...

Teenager Sam Timmins, school outcast and total nerd, is saved one day from getting run over by the wind. Only it isn't the wind that saves him, but a mysterious wind-sprite named Esther. The result of a botched lab experiment, Esther and her mother, Nita, the lead scientist on a matter-transportation project, now exist as wind beings. Sam begins a relationship with Esther, even though he cannot see or even hold Esther, but they grow as close as two...