PENNY TENNEY IN MEDFORD
Penny Tenney Moves to Medford
In the first book in the Penny Tenney in Medford series, seven-year-old Penny Tenney has just moved to Medford to be closer to her grandmother.
On moving day, her parents give her one job: keep her two-year-old brother Henry safe while they unpack. Simple enough, until Grandma arrives and takes them on a tour of town. What starts as an ordinary walk becomes something else entirely: hungry boa constrictors talked down by a werewolf vet, a gingerbread cookie revolution in a bakery owned by a dragon (shhh!), and a witch librarian who seems to know far more than she lets on.
Penny wants nothing more than to survive the day with Henry in one piece — but Henry has other ideas, and in Medford, a curious two-year-old has a way of wandering straight into magic.
Future Stories
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Penny Tenney and the Forgotten Garden
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Penny Tenney and the Runaway Unicorn
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Penny Tenney and the Midnight Market
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Penny Tenney and the Heart of Medford
ANCHORPOINT
The world didn't end — it transformed. When climate collapse pushed the planet past the point of human remedy, the fae emerged from the Summerlands to help stitch it back together.
The Institutes were born from that bargain: one hundred and fifty sanctuaries across the globe, part hospital, part magical refuge, part diplomatic embassy, each one an anchor between realms. They've held the peace for a generation. But peace, it turns out, is not the same thing as safety.
Lilly Thorne is a siren, sixty years old, and newly appointed Director of the Thorne Institute in San Francisco. She steps into the shoes of her father Leif, who ran it for over a century before his recent death.
She's barely found her footing when the Institute's foundational magic begins to fail. Habitat wards flicker. The ley lines feel wrong. And then the keystone cracks — not from age, but from something deliberate, patient, and cold.
When a court-appointed healer named Callum arrives alongside Lilly's ten-year-old half-sister Ivy, she has to decide how much she trusts the people the court has sent — and how far she'll go to protect what her father built.
This adult urban-fantasy series spans five books, following Lilly from reluctant heir to architect of something entirely her own.
THE HEARTHLIGHT COVEN
Once a month, the Hearthlight Coven meets to share resources and support each other as they grow their businesses and protect their communities. On the surface it looks like a book club. Underneath, it's the thing holding together an ancient, living force that runs through the land beneath them all, fed by craft, community, and the stubborn insistence that ordinary life is worth protecting.
Each witch carries her magic through her work: Wren bakes warmth and protection into her bread, Eliza unearths forgotten stories in the stacks of her library, Mara's herbs hold the line between healing and harm, Naomi feeds hungers the ordinary world can't name, and Willa speaks the language of creatures who have run out of places to go. Each of them has learned — or believes she's learned — to carry the weight alone. It's what the magic seems to require.
This five book cozy fantasy series explores the power of connection, reciprocity, and shared responsibility. While each woman is prepared to shoulder their burden alone, only together can they truly save the community and perhaps themselves.
BIO
I am a Director of Communications and Community Engagement with a decade of experience as a professional writer, storyteller, and public-facing communicator. I am also the founder of several small businesses, and I bring the same creative instinct I apply to my professional work to my fiction.
I am a member of SCBWI and I live in Pleasant Hill, California with my husband and my two young children — a three-year-old girl and a one-year-old boy — who are my first and most important readers.
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