Susan Bianculli
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The Mist Gate Crossings
Novels
Prisoners of the Keep
Book 1
After being chased by a mugger through Central Park, Lise stumbles through an odd patch of mist into a whole other, more magical dimension. With only an Elf, a fellow human, and the blessings of a Goddess to help her, Lise must find a way to create her own place in this new world while looking to return to home.
Bascom's Revenge
Book 2
After having stumbled through that fateful mist into this new world, Lise has begun to adjust to her current life. With her friends Arghen and Jason, and a fresh commitment to the Goddess Caelestis, Lise believes she's ready for the next adventure. At least, she thinks that until Jason is first injured and then kidnapped just as a second mist gate leading home opens. Forced to choose between him and her life back in NYC, Lise's recently acquired faith is put to the test.
Descent Into Underearth
Book 3
The search to save their kidnapped friend takes Lise, Arghen and some new companions deep underground into a world of slavery, cruelty, and torture: the world of the Underelves. Finding Jason will take all of Lise's cunning and Arghen's knowledge of his people. But finding Jason is only half the battle - the rescue party also has to get him, and themselves, back out again...
The Long, Dark Road
Book 4
Lise and her friends have finally defeated their greatest foe, but at great personal cost. Then, another one of their number is captured by wrathful enemies determined to exact revenge for the defeat. Now with lives knowingly on the line, Lise must venture underground one last time and return before the final mist gate - her last chance to go back home - closes for good.
Novellas
The Grey Riders' Search
Miscere Elf Dusk and WindRider Auraus and their band, The Grey Riders, have been trying to determine what is happening to travelers disappearing in the Garrend Mountains. Unfortunately, after being captured while separated from their comrades, it looks like Dusk and Auraus may be the ones disappearing as well.
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A prequel to The Mist Gate Crossings: Prisoners of the Keep.
The Urban Survivalist
Jason's life has never been easy. As a member of the Urban Survivalists, a group of homeless kids just trying to survive the streets of New York City, Jason's day is spent trying to steal and scavenge enough to buy food for himself and his friends. Then one day he chases the wrong girl into the trees in Central Park and out of the everyday world.
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A prequel to the Mist Gate Crossings: Prisoners of the Keep.
Old Disciplines,
New Uses
Underelf Arghen, an up-and-coming military soldier, is framed by his hateful, scheming Captain for a kindness done to an enemy. As a result he is banished from his Underearth home of Relkanav. Struggling to survive the unholy monsters of Underearth alone, Arghen makes a fateful, life-changing choice when meeting a lone stranger in the tunnels below.
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A prequel to the Mist Gate Crossings: Prisoners of the Keep.
Anthologies
Perilous Princesses
- Princess Deneige
Of Stars and Science:
Tales of the Multiverse
- Landing Procedures
Songs of the Great Cycle
- Montezuma's Revenge
The Monsters Hiding in your Closet
- Riddle Me This
Stepmothers and the Big Bad Wolf
- Cinder-stepmother
Tales of Fortannis:
No Holds Bard
- Hoarfrost
One Thousand Words for War
- (1) Testing, Testing, One-Two-Three
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- (2) Reflections
Magical
- The Big Bad Wolf is a Lie
BIO
Susan Bianculli, a happily married mother of two living in Georgia, has loved to read all her life. Fairy tales from collections like The Yellow Fairy took her to magical places when she was young; and Fantasy and Sci-fi stories took her to places such as Middle Earth and Dune in her teens. She still loves to read as an adult, and it is not unusual for her to carve out reading time during her busy days and encourage her family to do the same.
A graduate of Emerson College with a Minor in Writing, she is finally making a foray to the other side of the book cover. She hopes through her stories to share and inspire in young readers the same love of reading that she had at their age, and still has now.