Books by Lisa Colodny

Have you ever considered how your life might be if magic was an everyday part of it? What if your heritage included a line of powerful "good" witches who battled demons and the powerful dark knights who threatened to disrupt the balance of power? Although Magna Joubert's been aware of the White Witches who govern the Coterie, she never really considered she'd one day take her mother's place as lord and leader. It wasn't long after Magna returned home to Louisiana to assume leadership of her mother's magic school, Waverly Academy and the Coterie that she felt the dark forces encroaching on the academy. She knew it was simply a matter of time before darkness broke the truce and made a play to control heaven, earth, and everything in between. With the aid of her magical and non magical friends, she's put to the test to defeat the darkness that threatens her and her legacy. Wavering Moon is more than a story about defeating evil and restoring the goodness of order. It's also about destiny and the family ties that bond us together in life as well as in death. Some things really are forever.

A chimera is an illusion, an idea of something that can never be. In mythology, the pseudo-creature has the head of a lion, body of a goat, and a serpent's tail spliced together into a freak of nature without a purpose or plan. Under the watchful eye of a scientist in a lab, it is a genetic anomaly whose presence exists as a contradiction to mother nature herself. When Catherine Masters, a tenured risk manager for one of North Carolina's largest and most successful healthcare systems, begins to suspect that everything is not as it seems, she enlists the help of her longtime friend and pharmacy director, Dr Ryan Allen, to sort through past and present conspiracies that identify facts from fiction and separate lies from the truth. After they uncover a terrible secret involving murder and corruption at the highest level of the corporate command, they find their lives and the lives of those they love in compromise and that everything at the hospital is not as it seems. After several prominent physicians die under suspicious circumstances, they fear no one is safe from the sins of the past. They enlist the aid of the FBI, only to discover the FBI may be collaborating with the conspirators. Catherine and Ryan will, at the very least, be forced to look deep inside themselves and discover the chimera that lives in each of us to save themselves and those they love from being sacrificed for the sins of the past. Will they find their way through the smoke and mirrors of a corporate structure where nothing is as it seems? Or, will they learn that everyone is expendable to promote a secret agenda hidden in plain sight between lies that span over fifty years?

Have you ever considered what it might be like to go back to another place or time? If you could what event or events might you like to participate in or be witness to? How might you, a child of technology, adjust to a world without indoor plumbing, public transportation, conventional foods like ice cream/pizza, and many other conveniences so easily taken for granted.That's exactly the predicament US Marshal Devon McKenzie and NYPD Chris Gates find themselves in after a routine prisoner transport from NYC to Washington State goes horribly wrong as they pass through the countryside of rural Nebraska canvased against the night sky of the Aurora Borealis.The fascinating tale In The Town Time Forgot: Turbulence begins in New York City when U.S. marshal, Devon McKenzie and NYC Detective Chris Gates end up transporting a well-known prisoner along the interstate. The two officers have never gotten along and are squabbling when their prisoner is forcefully removed from them en route during a night when the Aurora Borealis is at its brightest.The van they are driving is wrecked and the officers are injured. They spend the next three days surviving in an isolated wilderness area. When they come upon a farmer, he takes them back to his house, where they are shocked to discover they have been transported back in time to 1869 Nebraska. The farmer and his family wrongly assume the two are married, so Devon and Chris play alone until they can figure out what happened how they can get home.

Have you ever considered what it might be like to go back to another place or time? If you could what event or events might you like to participate in or be witness to? How might you, a child of technology, adjust to a world without indoor plumbing, public transportation, personal hygiene products, conventional foods like ice cream or pizza and many other conveniences so easily taken for granted and realize Marty McFly isn't coming to transport you safely home?In part one, Turbulence, US Marshal Devon McKenzie and NYPD Chris Gates found themselves transported via the Aurora Borealis to 1869 Nebraska after a routine prisoner transport from NYC to Washington State goes horribly wrong. The couple struggled to adapt to their new life in 1869 by pretending to be a married couple after being rescued by a gentle family and dissuade the unwanted attention the town's Deputy has for Devon. In part 2, Crossroads, after a violent attack on Devon by the Deputy, they work to rebuild their lives and gradually immerse themselves into being members of the community. Once Gates assumes the position of Deputy, the two are married and gradually grow less interested in returning to present day NYC. They flee the small Nebraska town after the corrupt Deputy returns to reclaim Devon and both are injured in the conflict that follows as they once again fight to survive. It's a no holes barred battle between good and evil as Gates fights to save Devon from the past and preserve their future.