Browse Delaware Authors: DeJesus, Liz

Enjoy the colorful traditional Puerto Rican Parade and learn your alphabet with the vejigantes and their friends!

For generations, the Frost family has run the Museum of Magical and Rare Artifacts, handing down guardianship from mother to daughter, always keeping their secrets to "family only. Seventeen-year-old Bianca Frost wants none of it. The display cases are fakes because, of course, magic doesn't really exist. She's about to find out how wrong she is.

For generations, the Frost family has run the Museum of Magical and Rare Artifacts, handing down guardianship from mother to daughter, always keeping their secrets to "family only." Gathered within museum's walls is a collection dedicated to the Grimm fairy tales and to the rare items the family has acquired.

One painting. One year. One life. After several miscarriages, artist Rachel Ramirez paints Nina, the daughter she never had, chronicling her development from birth to womanhood. The eldest Nina awakens, watching life beyond her painting and wanting desperately to join the world outside. After Rachel's untimely death, Nina has the chance to step out of her painting, into the real world. She is given one year to experience the wonders and challenges of life, friendship, and love. Will it all be too much for her or will her heart open to the beautiful colors of the world she once longed to experience?

When Cinderella's glass slipper is stolen, Queen Felicia sends her faithful steward Terrance to the real world to retrieve his love and witch-in-training, Bianca Frost.

The Jackets is a collection of short stories in which Liz DeJesus explores the connection between colors and emotions. Love unrequited, love fulfilled, and unrelenting reality crushing hopes and dreams are some of the experiences symbolized in the jacket colors that structure the rhapsodic explorations of the stages of love as experienced by young women. Red is the color of love at first sight for Laura. Orange are the flames of passion for Mia. For Penelope, brown is the color of nature, of the ancient gods and their unfettered love-making. Each chapter explores a unique perspective: a writer trying to find her muse; a young woman trying to flee an abusive relationship; a cashier getting lost in the woods and finding more than she had ever bargained for. In this intriguing blend of fiction and fantasy, the women in these stories hope for relationships, break out of them or find themselves involved with mythical gods and creatures. These fantastical pieces make for entertaining reading and give insight into young womens eternal search for romance. DeJesuss style is direct and uncompromising. Her women are courageous and captivating. This book will be a page-turner for women at every stage of life.

Detective Morgan Carbone's life changes in an instant when she is bitten by a sociopathic serial killer. The wound heals quickly, but his bite transforms her into a terrifying werewolf. Bloodthirsty and out of control, she becomes the thing of nightmares. It is only when she is captured by another werewolf, Mario Bonaventura, that she learns to control her insatiable bloodlust. But Mario is not all he seems and he has a job for her. Thrust on a journey that takes her to the other side of the world, she must face off with Elizabeth, an ancient vampiress whose appearance mirrors that of Morgan's former lover. There is more to Elizabeth's story than Mario discloses and Morgan becomes intrigued with her. Will she succeed in her mission to kill the vampiress or find herself the willing victim of her seduction?

Bianca Frost and her BFF Ming Lee return to Everafter to attend the Winter Ball with their boyfriends, Terrance and Prince Ferdinand. They were looking forward to a short vacation, especially Bianca, who is being bullied at school and counting the days to when she can finally graduate from high school. But all is not cute hair and fancy shoes as a mysterious count sets his sights on Bianca at the ball. When Count Jonathan Bleu kidnaps Bianca and Ming, the pair must do everything in their power to escape his clutches. In this amazing adventure, Bianca and Ming find themselves traveling down a rabbit hole, where they must survive the madness of Wonderland before Bianca loses everything she holds dear.

The 21 stories in the Someone Wicked anthology were written by the members of the Written Remains Writers Guild and its friends, and was edited by JM Reinbold and Weldon Burge.

Neve Blanche is a survivor. In her compound, The Orchard, she and her friends fight to stay alive while they work to find a cure to the deadly plague that walks the earth. Zombies. Zombies created and unleashed upon the world by her stepmother, Lila, in an obsessive attempt to retain her beauty. Seven years earlier, Lila fled The Orchard, leaving it in chaos. Now she's back to take the one thing she needs to perfect her beauty serum, the one thing she could never obtain in her time at The Orchard. The apples. Locked away in the depths of The Orchard lie the apple trees, rare now to their world and protected by Neve. Lila will do anything in her power to finally get her hands on the apples. Can Neve stop her before she and her friends become victims of Lila's obsession?