J.L. Powers

Mystic

1 - Mystic Heart (Apr-2018)
2 - Mystic Light (Apr-2018)

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  The Confessional
  

  • Jul-2007
  • / General Fiction
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  Mexican guy. White guy. Classmates and enemies from across the border and on each other's turf. Big fight. White guy wins. Next day, he's dead. Everyone's a suspect. Everyone's guilty of something. Does what you look like or where you come from fi...

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  This Thing Called the Future
  

  • Apr-2011
  • / General Fiction
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  Khosi lives with her beloved grandmother Gogo, her little sister Zi, and her weekend mother in a matchbox house on the outskirts of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. In that shantytown, it seems like somebody is dying all the time. Billboards everyw...

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  Amina
  

  • May-2015
  • / Historical
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  A moving, fictional account of one child's life in a conflict zone, in Mogadishu, Somalia

  

  Broken Circle
  

  • Oct-2017
  • / Fantasy
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  Winner of the Writers' League of Texas's Discovery Prize for Middle Grade/Young Adult!

  "The Powerses' worldbuilding and writing will keep [readers] hooked. They will find themselves questioning what is fact and what is fiction and cheering Adam ...

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  Mystic Heart
  

  • Apr-2018
  • / Fantasy
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  Mystic - 1
  

  The world we lived in isn't as black and white as we first thought. Hawk understood this better than anyone, he's always been a part of that world. For Skye and I it's so new, a world where fantasy and reality collided. Through this new w...

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  Mystic Light
  

  • Apr-2018
  • / Fantasy
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  Mystic - 2
  

  Life sure changed, a whole year passed and I didn't even realize it. The choice I made had it's consequences but I wouldn't change it for anything. There was still something out there waiting for the right time to strike. Just when I thou...

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  Under Water
  

  • Jan-2019
  • / General Fiction
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  When her beloved grandmother dies, 17-year-old Khosi must learn to survive on her own. She has to take care of her little sister Zi, make a living as a traditional healer, and somehow try, despite everything, to finish school. When her beloved Imbali...

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