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Ami Blackwelder

Ami Blackwelder is a teacher and writer with a BA in English who has lived in Asia for 8 years. Her short stories and poems have been published in magazines and newspapers across the globe. She won the Best Fiction Award while acquiring her Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Central Florida. She placed as a semi-finalist in the Laurel Hemingway short story contest and her work was subsequently published.

She writes historical and paranormal romance novels that focus on the forbidden aspects of passionate love where class, culture, religion, time, death, and species differences are all obstacles. Her unique characters and their awkward nuances  invoke strong emotions in readers, making them real, in spite of their fantastical nature. She creates worlds of past, present, and future with detailed scenes and descriptive images which provide a supple canvas for these original, paradoxical characters to exist.

Find out more about her at amiblackwelder.com

Ami Blackwelder

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The Gate of Lake Forest

Within a small Colorado town, there's a quiet forest entrenched in almost-forgotten local folklore. When high school soccer player Michael Cole sees the new girl Evelyn, walk into his senior English class he is forever changed. His passion for the mysterious, secretive girl takes him deep into the mystical world of which she is a part.

As their separate worlds collide, Evelyn and Michael embark on a magical journey into perilous realms where dangerous creatures are determined to defeat them. Will their forbidden love be able to sustain them? Find out in the first novel of this romantic elfin novel saga.

(Publisher's Note: Books 1 & 2 of Guardians of the Gate were previously published separately, and are now available as one novel. If you have purchased Book 1 previous to this edition, please contact us)

ISBN: 978-1-926760-26-1
Word Count: 115,000
Date Published: January 2010


price: US$ 7.99