New Releases by O. R. Melling

Olwen Mellory is called away from her life as a writer of fairy tales to take part in a week-long retreat on a remote Scottish island. ''The Great Journey'' promises to be full of magical wisdom and visionary experiences. It''s an invitation she can''t resist. But within hours of arriving at the imposing Dunesfort House and meeting her companions in the circle, Olwen''s adventure takes an unexpected turn. Before long, her daytime explorations of mystical practices are paired with night-time dreams and phantasms that blur the line between the real and the imaginary. As the enigmatic but vaguely sinister course director asserts his authority in a bid to create an act of modern alchemy, Olwen begins to wonder in whom she can trust. After a shocking event in the circle Olwen flees across the moors to the Callanish Stones, only to find herself caught in an ancient moon rite. Will this final calling free her from her personal demons forever, or will it be the beginning of a new nightmare?

Eleven year-old Dana has just learned that her musician dad plans to return to Canada, so they will be moving from Ireland, maybe forever. To leave her friends, school and the only home she has ever known is bad enough. But if they go, Dana must abandon all hope of ever finding her mother, who disappeared when Dana was three. Dana is unwillingly drawn into the world of Faerie. Wandering the woods, she meets a strange young woman who charges her with an important but dangerous mission : to carry a message from the High King of Faerie to his second-in-command deep in the mountains. If she succeeds, Dana will have her heart''s desire - any wish will be granted.

"The second book in the critically acclaimed Chronicles of Faerie series" In this book, which "School Library Journal" called lyrical and mesmerizing, eighteen-year-old Laurel arrives in Ireland on the anniversary of her sisters mysterious death, to take up her twins failed mission to find the Summer King and save Faerie. As Laurel sets her cynicism aside and becomes caught up in dark secrets and old hatreds, she harbors a desperate dream of her ownto save her sister. With its layers of fantasy and reality, "The Summer King" invites readers to travel between two worlds in the company of a master storyteller.

While visiting distant relatives in Ireland, a teenage brother and sister, curiously uneasy about the strange workman on their cousin''s farm, discover his strange powers when they are all transported back in time to take part in the struggle between Cuchulain of Ulster and Queen Maeve of Connaught.

A complex fantasy with three levels that introduces us to a Canadian author who goes to Ireland to escape her husband, and the characters she brings to life in her book mirroring her own circumstances (or it may be the other way around).

When Kay Warwick is drawn back in time to ancient Ireland, she sets out to search for four treasures of power: the Spear, the Sword, the Cauldron, and the Stone of Destiny.