Shadow Dance

Hero's Sword #6

by M.E. Sutton

The election is over and Jaycee lost. Or did she? When she is asked to serve as the eighth grade's representative to Student Council, Jaycee realizes she can still change things at Tanner. That is, until Kara points out it also means attending the Homecoming Dance.
Seeking a respite from shopping, Jaycee turns to her favorite video game. The Fall Council has convened early in response to the Dark Blade Crisis. Arriving in Mallor, Lyla learns that attending the Fall Council means going to the ball. And wearing a dress.
At the Council Ball, Lyla meets a mysterious stranger from an Eastern estate. Does he hold answers? An explosion at the Council makes finding those answers crucial. As the clock ticks down to Dark Blade's promised next catastrophe, Lyla and Galen gather the other heroes for aid in their quest to save the assembled nobles.
But can Roger, Starla, and Galen help Jaycee with her biggest challenge: surviving Homecoming?

131 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 23, 2015

About the author

Mary Sutton has been making up stories, and creating her own endings for other people's stories, for as long as she can remember. After ten years, she decided that making things up was far more satisfying than writing software manuals, and took the jump into fiction.

She writes the HERO'S SWORD middle-grade fantasy series as M.E. Sutton and finds a lot of inspiration in the lives of her own kids. A lifelong mystery fan, she also writes crime fiction, including THE LAUREL HIGHLANDS MYSTERIES, under the pen name Liz Milliron. Her short fiction has been published at Uppagus.com, Mystericale.com (Fall 2013), and in LUCKY CHARMS: 12 CRIME TALES (December 2013).

Like her LAUREL HIGHLANDS characters, Mary lives in Southwestern PA (but, unfortunately, she doesn't have a dog). She is a member of Sisters in Crime and Pennwriters.

Visit her on the web at http://marysuttonauthor.com and follow her on Twitter (@mary_sutton73).