YA FANTASY ADVENTURE - A SEA OF SHIPS AND SOULS by Jordan S. Keller

 A Sea of Ships and Souls

by Jordan S. Keller

Date of Publication: March 9th 2026

Publisher: The Wild Rose Press

Cover Artist: The Wild Rose Press

Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Adventure 

ISBN: 978-1509264612

ASIN: B0GBY23QNF

Number of pages: 242

Word Count: 83,000

Tagline: A Dread Pirate’s curse. A Sea Sprite’s secrets. And one boy who dares the tides.

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As the son of two washers, Jace Kit has only dreamed of adventure—until a fabled Sea Sprite washes ashore and turns his world upside down.

The Sea Sprite needs a hero to save the Ocean Queen from a ruthless pirate terrorizing the Remos Ocean. With a legendary trinket and handmade boat to his name, Jace is her only hope—even though he knows the trinket is fake.

With Jace's skilled sailing and the Sea Sprite’s magic, the pair enters a competition to win a ship capable of catching the pirate. The only thing darker than the depths are the Sea Sprite’s secrets, and Jace realizes too late his adventure might cost a price too high to pay.

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Excerpt:
The cove was calm when Jace arrived. The horrors carried in by the damaged ship were washed away with the tides overnight. The clear waters took Jace’s breath away, as it did every time, and for a moment, he forgot his purpose for coming. Legends told of angry Sea Sprites luring sailors into the water and returning their skulls to empty offering bowls. Their mystic lullabies compelling sailors to leap headfirst off their ships.
It wouldn’t take a magic song to lure Jace. He’d followed the stunning refraction of water and sky without question. Without hesitation. Without regret. The compass needle in his soul never wavered from the water, his true north.

Jace stepped toward the shore, his leather boots sinking into the sand and his gaze unwavering from the water. I’ll stop at the waterline, he reminded his body. His soul pouted at the refrain, and his legs stopped an inch from the foamy wave cresting the sand. As the wave pulled back into the ocean, the distance returned some sense to Jace. He couldn’t walk himself into the middle of the ocean without risking ruining his boots, which his parents worked hard to get him. Nor could he get far enough into the cove with just his legs to satisfy his hunger.

Author Info

Jordan S. Keller is the award-winning author of the Ashes Over Avalon superhero trilogy, the cyber-punk dystopian Failing Gravity, and oceanic adventure A Sea Of Ships and Souls. She is a type-one diabetic, a serial dog walker, and is impatiently waiting for her favorite bands to visit. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with her husband and their critters. 

The Book Junkie Reads . . . Interview with . . . Jordan S. Keller . . . 

Do you feel that writing is an ingrained process or just something that flows naturally for you?

I believe writing (or story telling) was ingrained in me at a young age. I spent a lot of evenings sitting around bonfires and kitchen tables listening to the memories my family recounted. I loved finding stories within my favorite songs and fell asleep each night day dreaming about my own imaginary words. In college, I fell in love with the campus radio program because I was able to meet so many interesting people and hear their stories. I don’t think becoming an author surprised anyone.  

Do you have a character that you have been working on for a long time that still isn't quite ready, but fills you with excitement to work on the story?

Rory is a character that has haunted me for years. I’ll write a couple of pages about him every few months but can’t figure out where to place him. Sometimes he’s stealing space ships, other times he’s a casino mob boss, one time he was a girl and was in a magical high school. I see him so clear in my mind but can’t seem to figure out his world just yet.

 

Have you found yourself bonding with any particular character(s)? If so, which one(s)?

The main character in my superhero romance trilogy, Ashes Over Avalon, is the woman I wish I could be. Fire powers and cool costume aside, Abigail is confident, unafraid to chase her dream, and powers through any obstacle. Whenever I’m struggling with something, I’ll look in the mirror and ask myself, “What would Abigail do?” 

Can you share your next creative project(s)? If yes, can you give a few details?

Nothing is official yet, but I’m in the early drafting stages of a project close to my heat: Project: Ghost Kid. It’s a young adult paranormal novel featuring a skeptic, a non-believer, and a half ghost trying to infiltrate a secret society of ghost hunters.

If you could go ANYWhere, money is not a concern, and spend one full year. Where would you go and what would you do with this time?

If I could go anywhere for a year, it would be Japan. I feel like you’d need a whole year just to truly see everything, but to be honest, I’d spend a lot of that time and money eating. I’d want to try every ramen bowl I could get my hands on.

Thank you Jordan S. Keller for joining and giving a little insight to you and your process. Your work is appreciated.

You can visit her online at: 
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YA FANTASY ADVENTURE - A SEA OF SHIPS AND SOULS by Jordan S. Keller

 A Sea of Ships and Souls

by Jordan S. Keller

Date of Publication: March 9th 2026

Publisher: The Wild Rose Press

Cover Artist: The Wild Rose Press

Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Adventure 

ISBN: 978-1509264612

ASIN: B0GBY23QNF

Number of pages: 242

Word Count: 83,000

Tagline: A Dread Pirate’s curse. A Sea Sprite’s secrets. And one boy who dares the tides.

BLURB

As the son of two washers, Jace Kit has only dreamed of adventure—until a fabled Sea Sprite washes ashore and turns his world upside down.

The Sea Sprite needs a hero to save the Ocean Queen from a ruthless pirate terrorizing the Remos Ocean. With a legendary trinket and handmade boat to his name, Jace is her only hope—even though he knows the trinket is fake.

With Jace's skilled sailing and the Sea Sprite’s magic, the pair enters a competition to win a ship capable of catching the pirate. The only thing darker than the depths are the Sea Sprite’s secrets, and Jace realizes too late his adventure might cost a price too high to pay.

Wild Rose Press      Amazon     BN     Indie Bound     Walmart

Excerpt:
The cove was calm when Jace arrived. The horrors carried in by the damaged ship were washed away with the tides overnight. The clear waters took Jace’s breath away, as it did every time, and for a moment, he forgot his purpose for coming. Legends told of angry Sea Sprites luring sailors into the water and returning their skulls to empty offering bowls. Their mystic lullabies compelling sailors to leap headfirst off their ships.
It wouldn’t take a magic song to lure Jace. He’d followed the stunning refraction of water and sky without question. Without hesitation. Without regret. The compass needle in his soul never wavered from the water, his true north.

Jace stepped toward the shore, his leather boots sinking into the sand and his gaze unwavering from the water. I’ll stop at the waterline, he reminded his body. His soul pouted at the refrain, and his legs stopped an inch from the foamy wave cresting the sand. As the wave pulled back into the ocean, the distance returned some sense to Jace. He couldn’t walk himself into the middle of the ocean without risking ruining his boots, which his parents worked hard to get him. Nor could he get far enough into the cove with just his legs to satisfy his hunger.

Author Info

Jordan S. Keller is the award-winning author of the Ashes Over Avalon superhero trilogy, the cyber-punk dystopian Failing Gravity, and oceanic adventure A Sea Of Ships and Souls. She is a type-one diabetic, a serial dog walker, and is impatiently waiting for her favorite bands to visit. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with her husband and their critters. 

You can visit her online at: 
https://www.jordanskellerauthor.com/  
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089315640473
https://www.instagram.com/jordanskellerauthor
https://www.tiktok.com/@jordanskeller_author

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SPOTLIGHT Audio w/CHARACTER INTERVIEW - THE WITCHES OF VEGAS b Mark Rosendorf Narrator Jeffery Lynn Hutchins

THE WITCHES OF VEGAS
by  Mark Rosendorf
Narrator: Jeffery Lynn Hutchins
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Released: January 21, 2021
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Genre: Fantasy; YA

Where can witches and their vampire mentor practice their powers without being discovered or persecuted? 

By using their magic, the witches of Vegas become the number one act performing on the Las Vegas Strip - a great achievement for them, but not so much for the magicians, who can't possibly keep pace. 

Isis Rivera is the adopted 15-year-old daughter of the witches of Vegas. Zack Galloway is the teenage nephew and assistant to the last magician left in the city. Although they should be rivals, when Valeria, a 400-year-old witch with a long-seeded grudge against humanity arrives in Sin City, both teens act to bring their families together to stop the evil hag in her tracks. 

But can the combined witches' powers and the ingenuity of the magicians be enough to stop Valeria from taking over the city...and possibly the world?

 

Q&A with Protagonist Isis Rivera

• Interviewer: Welcome. To start, why don’t you tell us your name, age and a little bit about yourself.

• Isis: Hi, my name is Isis Flores Rivera and I’m fifteen years old. This is my first time being interviewed, so please forgive me if I’m a little nervous. I’m also a member of The Witches of Vegas, the number one magic show on the Las Vegas strip. Well, I haven’t actually performed with them yet, but I get to practice on the stage when the theater is empty. They promised me that my time is coming soon. I’ve been with them since I was nine.

• Um, okay, I’m going to tell you a secret and I need you to promise not to tell anyone okay? The truth is, I really am a witch. The others are too. We use the show to practice our witchcraft. It keeps us strong, and we need to be. According to Luther—he’s the coven’s mentor, he’s also a five-hundred-year-old vampire—there’s a threat coming that we may need to fight. I don’t know what that is, but he’s been getting witches ready for it long before any of us were ever born. We’re just the latest group of witches he’s getting ready in case the threat comes.

• Interviewer: How would you describe your childhood before The Witches of Vegas took you in?

• Isis: (head drops) To be honest…it wasn’t all that great. I was born in the Bronx in New York. My mom died when I was five…I don’t really remember her that well. I never knew my dad. My grandma raised me until I was eight, but then she got sick and I was put into foster care. I was in my last foster home for a while. I really wanted them to like me, but I always had the feeling that they didn’t.

• Things got really bad when I turned nine and I realized I could do things, like make fire and move stuff with my mind. I didn’t know how I could do that, just that I could. My foster family and all their neighbors found out. When they saw it, they all thought I was possessed by the devil. They beat me, tried to drown me and kept me locked in a basement for days without food. When I escaped and tried to run, they chased me down and tried to set me on fire. That’s when Sebastian, the leader of the witches’ coven—this was all before they became The Witches of Vegas—rescued me and took me into his family. He sensed my connection and came to investigate. It was just in time, too.

• Interviewer: How do you get along with the other members of The Witches of Vegas?

• Isis: I love them all so much. Selena Quinn and Sebastian Santell are like my adopted mom and dad. They’ve been teaching me and taking care of me since I’ve been with them. I haven’t called them “mom and dad” yet. That’s because the last people I called by those names tried to set me on fire. But I do feel close enough with Selena and Sebastian that I think I can call them that. I know they see me as their daughter. I’m just waiting for the right time to try it out. Does that make sense?

• Selena’s younger sister, Sacha, is like the coolest aunt anyone could ever have. She’s a lot of fun and maybe a little bit crazy. Luther, well, he can be a bit of a jerk sometimes. He likes to tell me that I’m “too immature and unfocused to be a witch.” But he also says it to the others and they’re all adults so I shouldn’t take it personally. I guess to someone who is five hundred years old, everyone is immature, right?

• Interviewer: How did The Witches of Vegas become “The Witches of Vegas?”

• Isis: Right after they rescued me, Sebastian found out about a hotel here in Las Vegas that was looking for a new magic act for their theater. He came up with the idea of saying they were a magic team and using their powers on stage. Witches can do a lot, including levitating, teleporting and creating illusions. They put on a great show. The general manager hired them immediately. We’ve lived in a suite in The Sapphire Resort ever since. For the last six years, every show is sold out.

• Interviewer: I must say, you’ve certainly been through a lot at such a young age. What do you consider the most important event of your life so far?

• Isis: That’s easy, it was that night. I was nine years old and sitting on the street, surrounded by my foster family, their friends and neighbors. They had knives, baseball bats and other weapons. My foster dad had a gun pointed at me and my mom had rolled up newspaper she lit on fire. All I had was a broken arm and a swollen eye I couldn’t see out of. They all kept saying I had the devil in me, and they had to burn it out of me for my own good. They didn’t know that I was a witch. I didn’t know either. I thought I was going to die that night.

• That’s when a huge red dragon walked down the street and scared them all away. Now I thought my death would come from getting stepped on or eaten by this huge dragon. But then it turned into a puff of smoke and Sebastian was standing there. He explained to me about witches, healed my arm and face with his mind, then invited me to join his coven…which is also his family.

• Interviewer: How does someone become a witch? And is it easy being one?

• Isis: Hmm, let me explain it the way Sebastian explained it to me. The world is surrounded by energy. It’s in the air, it’s in the ground, it’s in the space around us all the time. It makes up everything. Some people can tap into it, like psychics who get a glimpse of the future, or mothers who lift cars off their children. But some people find out that they can tap into it on purpose. That’s what makes us witches. That was the first thing he told me that day and I never forgot it. Is being a witch easy? No. The more connected we are with the energy, the more we have to learn to control it. The Witches of Vegas tell me I’m really connected, maybe more than any other witch before. That’s why they’re always training me. I’m learning, but so far, my control isn’t great. I’m working on it, though.

• Interviewer: Last question, have you ever been in a romantic relationship? Isis: You mean with a boy? (blushes) No, not yet. I don’t really spend a lot of time with anyone my age. I don’t leave the property a lot. I don’t even go to school. They teach me during the day in our suite and in the theater. But I hope to meet someone someday, someone who understands me, someone who is bit different like me. I’m sure he’s out there somewhere and I’ll meet him someday soon. Let’s hope he doesn’t mind that I can turn him into a frog. Um, that was just a joke, witches can’t really turn people into frogs. Interviewer: Well, this was certainly an interesting story, Isis. And I see you are truly into your stage characters. I’m sure we all wish we could really be witches. Is there anything else you’d like to share?

• Isis: I know it sounds kind of crazy, but it’s my life.

• [Isis raises her right hand. The pen leaves the interviewer’s hand and floats across the room towards Isis, who plucks it from the air.]

• Interviewer: …

• Isis: Oh, one more thing, I just want to ask again, to anyone who may read this interview, please, don’t tell anyone that we’re real witches. It’s a secret. If my coven finds out I blabbed, they’ll be really upset with me. Also, check out The Witches of Vegas at the Sapphire Resort and Casino’s theater. It’s a great show, but seats sell out fast. Thank you for interviewing me.

 

Mark Rosendorf is a high school guidance counselor in the New York City Department of Education’s Special Education district. He is also a former professional magician, and a writer. Mark is credited with published novels in various genres which includes The Rasner Effect series. He eventually decided on an early retirement from writing. When asked why, Mark’s usual answer was because he lost his favorite pen. Then, one night, at two a.m., a new and unique story shot into his brain like a lightning bolt, screaming for him to write it. Suddenly, Mark found himself spending several nights taking notes on the characters and their stories. That is how The Witches of Vegas was born and is now on these pages. This is Mark’s first young adult novel.

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As co-owner of a small multi-media production company, Head First Media, I first started doing voice over for projects the company produced. Over the next 17 years, 3 personalized children’s CDs and several video projects later, I discovered that voice over was the thing that I enjoyed the most. In 2016 a friend urged me to narrate audiobooks, something I’d never thought about. I did and loved it! I was fortunate enough to land several additional voice over gigs over the next couple of years and in 2018 I decided to do voice over full time. As of February 2021, I have recorded 25 audiobooks and a few hundred voice overs for everything from TV and radio commercials, online web commercials, training videos, explainer videos, online classes for a university and just about anything else you can think of. I’ve been fortunate to do projects for

• KFC
• YAMAHA
• Brown Forman
• Boeing
• AKG
• Electro Voice

I currently have a website for some of my commercial work at www.JLHutchins.com and hope to have additional information for audiobooks on the site by mid 2021.

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Damned When I Didn’t

by Cherie Colyer

Publication date: November 18th 2020

Published by: The Wild Rose Press

Genres: Paranormal, Romance, Young Adult

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Death isn’t the end for eighteen-year-old Avery Williams, and her final resting place isn’t beyond the Golden Gates. No, the Queen of the Damned has plans for her and, unbeknownst to Avery, fought hard to gain possession of her soul.

As Hell’s newest succubus, Avery is expected to siphon life from the living. It only takes a long, meaningful kiss, but for a virgin like Avery, kissing guys she barely knows isn’t something she’s comfortable doing. Avery focuses on the upside of her fate—she’ll be returning home, or so she thinks. When the Queen of the Damned cuts her off from her old life, Avery is determined to find a way back to her family and friends, even if it means facing Hell’s fury if she’s caught.

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EXCERPT:

I kicked my sneakers off near the kitchen stools and dropped my purse on the floor.

“What’s your problem?” Cole asked. He stood a few feet from me, eyes narrowed.

“Nothing.” I breathed in deep, trying to calm myself. The stench of cheap perfume invaded my nostrils. I covered my nose with my hand. “You reek of imitation lavender and…and…onions.”

Cole tossed his keys onto the counter. Obvious confusion flittered over his features only to be replaced with the realization that I was referring to the scents of the waitress.

“You’re one to talk!” he spit back. “You stink of Sport Goofy.”

“Sport Goofy, I mean Marcus, barely touched me.” Cole gave off such a strong odor, I was sure the waitress had put her hands all over him.

Cole stepped closer, placing his hands on the counter on either side of me, caging me in.

“And I barely touched her,” he growled. “When a human’s life force flows from them to us, our souls grow brighter and—”

“We smell like them,” I said, finishing his sentence. He’d told me that once.

“And because our senses become sharper, we know when our kind renews.” The blue in his irises was more pronounced than I’d remembered. I bit my lip to keep from asking him if that was because of my heightened vision or because he’d renewed, as he called it. “Now, do you want to tell me what’s really bothering you?”

I felt my face warm, and I had to fight to keep my gaze from traveling to his lips. Did I want to admit that I was irrationally jealous that he’d kissed another girl? Nope. So, instead, I said, “Her smell makes me want to puke.”

“Eau de Jock is doing the same to me.”

“You’re the one who called Sport Goofy,” I reminded him.

He smiled, clearly happy that I’d called Marcus by the nickname.

“You’re the one who pissed off the Queen of the Damned,” he countered.

I twitched a shoulder. “I still can’t stand how you smell right now.”

“Fine!” He grabbed me just under my butt and lifted me over his shoulder. I screamed. He held my legs, keeping me from falling.

“What are you doing?” I grabbed his waist from my upside down position.

“You think I smell?”

“Reek. And you said I do, too! Now put me down!”

“Let’s fix that.”

He marched to the bathroom with me slung over his shoulder. The next thing I knew we were standing in the tub. He continued to hold me like a sack of rice.

“Cole?”

He slid me down his chest so I stood in front of him with his arms keeping me from moving.

“Cole?”

He reached behind me.

I glanced up at the showerhead, then to the knob next to me. “You wouldn’t!”

“Want to bet?” 

 

Author Info

Cherie Colyer is the author of Challenging Destiny and the Embrace series. When she's not getting the fictional people in her life into trouble, she can be found solving network issues at work, spending time with family and friends, reading, or exploring the great outdoors.

Cherie lives in Illinois with her family.

To learn more about Cherie and her novels visit www.CherieColyer.com

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