The Star Catcher

If a human girl is adopted by the fairies, can she ever truly be human again? Or has her life been altered forever beyond reclamation?

Taken in by the wood fairy as an infant, Takara lives a blessed life with her friends Mouse and Toad, and especially the tiny orchid mantis known as Hana. Her extraordinarily long life is filled with carefree play and excursions throughout the Enchanted Realm. Given a full education by the Red Dragon, Takara learns of life both within the enchanted world and the mortal world outside it. Though happy with her existence, Takara often wonders about the human world from which she came, but to abandon the protection endowed by her adoptive mother could lead to a cursed existence outside the land of enchantment.

One day, in defiance of her boundaries, Takara wanders into the Forbidden Grove. There she encounters a stranger who not only causes her to question her mother's motives for keeping her but ignites a rift among her and her friends. After losing Toad, Takara attempts to save Mouse from a terrible fate as well as fulfill a long ago promise made to Hana. But it can only be done by leaving the Enchanted Realm, an action which could ultimately lead to her own demise.

Inspired by the mystical beauty of Japan, The Star Catcher: The Curse and Seven Blessings is a novella of friendship and self-discovery, of questions and trust, where Happiness is found only when keeping true to one's self, and Enchantment can often prove deadly.