In a richly imagined world based on ancient Persia, Iona, born a Mage and a seer, lives in the Pramnian Empire where her people, the Magi, are persecuted as witches by zealots. She is taken unwillingly to the shah's harem as a contender for queenship. There she must hide her identity and rally her magecraft to both stay alive and save her people, who have become the target of the bigoted vizier. She grows closer to the young shah and discovers it's not just the Magi she cares for, and it's not just her people who will need her protection, as a plot to assassinate the shah is revealed. 

THE GILDED CAGE is a Young Adult fantasy romance in the tradition of THRONE OF GLASS, WOVEN IN MOONLIGHT, and THE WRATH AND THE DAWN.

There is a secret that has been kept from Jules Manning his whole life. A secret that will change everything.

Fourteen-year-old Jules expects his archeologist Grandpa Gordon back any day so that the two can go on their first dig together. But Gordon doesn't come. Instead, Viola, a strange, dreamy girl, arrives to stay for the summer. Then another odd visitor: a jackdaw, who certainly doesn’t belong in North America, let alone in Jules’s bedroom. The bird leads Jules and Viola to clues Gordon seems to have left behind: a legend, a cipher, and a silver key. Through a secret ingress to another world, Jules finds not only the adventure he's always longed for, talking beasts, smuggler's caves, terrifying djinn, and real magic, but also a destiny that's been kept secret from him all his life…if he can save Grandpa Gordon first.

Drawing on Near East mythologies about djinn and legends of King Solomon, JULES AND THE DJINNI MASTER is an adventurous Middle Grade Fantasy for readers who enjoyed THE BARTIMAEUS TRILOGY, THE PANDAVA QUINTET, and classics like THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA.