Cynthia L Moyer

The Misfortune of the Emerald Thief Cynthia L Moyer

Publisher Marketing: Join Denim the Bubble Ranger and Ravenna the Time Bender on their first bubblicious tale as The Keepers of the Emerald Cave! Denim River only wants to know one thing...if he has to have a superpower, why couldn't he have a cool power? Why does it have to be blowing bubbles? Sure, he'll be able to make bubbles any shape, size, scent or color right out of thin air, but his little sister will be able to phase from place to place and bend time when her powers come in, and he's stuck with bubbles? The parents even sent him to Seattle to hone his freak show skills with his crazy grandpa, Seattle's very own Bubble Ranger, so now the whole world will know he descended from clowns! But one day another bubble-maker, the mysterious Ladarius, shows up at one of his grandpa's magic shows and Denim learns there's more to life than entertaining squealing tourists. The baton has been passed. He discovers he and his 11-year-old sister, Ravenna, are the next Keepers of the Emerald Cave, defenders of the secret energy source the people of the Pacific Northwest are unaware of, but depend on every day, and Denim's new powers are tested right away. In the Cascade Mountains just east of Seattle the water levels of the highest alpine lakes are dropping and threatening the Tarn, the beautiful watery creatures who call the lakes their home. Denim and his family, along with members of a secret mountain faction of the Weald, must find out where the water is going and if Ladarius is behind it, before any more lives are lost. Contributor Bio:  Moyer, Cynthia L Cynthia L. Moyer is a Midwestern girl who lived in the Philippines for a year as an exchange student when she was 16, but then fell in love with the Pacific Northwest when she moved to Seattle for college. After college, she found herself living on an Indian Nation above a bay full of whales and otters. She's also lived in a dollhouse with a pink sewing room, in a purple Victorian just minutes from the beach, on a flowery acre under a misty mountain, a magical tree house with a pack of wild bunnies in the backyard, and a cozy cottage where everything had its place. In her life she's worked carving ducks out of wood with a burning tool, doing calligraphy, and as a dishwasher in a dinner theater. She was pulling espresso in Seattle before the rest of the country even knew what it was, and she's been a nanny, cleaned houses, and was a short order cook at the oldest coffeehouse in Seattle during its day, The Last Exit on Brooklyn. She did the grocery store thing, the office supply store thing, the gift shop thing, the deli thing, and was a newspaper reporter for years, and although she never worked in a bookstore, she always wanted to. Cynthia believes in adoption, the power of love, the beauty of lavender fields, the sweetness of chocolate, and the zing of caffeine. She was excited to discover that writing was the perfect way to finally meld everything important to her into one activity.