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When Evan O’Neil inherits his grandparents’ tiny, private island off the coast of the sleepy seaside town of Palmetto Dunes, he and his wife, Mei, relocate there to begin life anew. But, upon arriving on the Carolina coast, they find a town and a people strangely untouched by time.
It seems that Palmetto Dunes harbors a dark and deadly secret, and that the sea around their tiny island home might well be the beating heart of that evil. For something monstrous calls the surrounding ocean home, something with a deadly reach that extends well beyond the endless tides.
Evan and Mei soon find themselves fighting for their lives—and for the future of humanity–against an evil, resourceful and all-powerful creature of a sort never seen by humans.
“DRAGONS WEST” an Epic Fantasy Series
From J. A. Johnson, co-author of the Nereus Project Deep Sea Thriller Series comes,
“The Dragon’s Egg” The first book in the epic fantasy series, “DRAGONS WEST”.
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DRAGONS WEST
Treasure of the Jaguar King
Adam Conrad was orphaned when his parents vanished in the Nicaduran jungle seeking the legendary Treasure of the Jaguar King. Now, twenty years later, he finds himself drawn into the quest for the cursed treasure. Adam’s closest friend, a fellow orphan named Atziri, is a young, indigenous woman with a mysterious link to the treasure. Together they follow a trail of danger and betrayal into the uncharted heart of the jungle where danger and death abound and every step could be their last.
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LEGENDS OF THE COAST by J.A. Johnson
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Two Amazing New Adventures
Packed with Action & Illustrations!
A Tale of Two (Timeless) Stories: “Legends of the Coast” & “Gilbert and the Clockwork Pirates”
The better part of 20 years ago, an idea for a series of books was envisioned by two friends, K.G. McAbee and J.A. Johnson. It was an ambitious project intended to be ten volumes long.
Ideas were brainstormed, plot lines were laid like train tracks and, to top it off, the books would be fully illustrated. The basic operating procedure went like this. K.G. and J.A. would develop the stories together, then, K.G. would sit down and write the manuscript while J.A. would slip away to draw the illustrations.
Ten volumes. It was an ambitious plan and it worked like a charm for about one and half to two books. And then the very weight of its ambitiousness seemed to crush the momentum and ultimately the project ground to a halt.
Yet, there was story enough for two volumes and illustrations to boot. But what to do with it? The work was too good to be filed away and forgotten, relegated to the graveyard of books-that-might-have-been. In the end, it was decided that K.G. would keep the manuscripts to do with as she pleased. And J.A. would keep the illustrations and perhaps develop a new story line to fit them.
The manuscripts for volumes one and two would find temporary homes with a small publisher; book one, then titled ‘The Dark Legacy’ would go on to win the prestigious Dream Realm Award! Not bad for a project that almost didn’t get its chance, huh?
As for the illustrations, well, they sat around for something like five or six years. Try as he might, J.A. could not fit them to a new story idea. Eventually he gave up and passed the illustrations on to another friend to see if someone who knew nothing of the original idea could see them from a fresh perspective and help come up with a new story idea.
And then a weird thing happened. It seemed that the minute he quit trying to think of an idea for the story, he had one. And so “Legends of the Coast” was written. And it turns out that he had to redraw nearly every picture for the new book.
That was about seven years ago.
Time passed, other projects came and went for both J.A. and K. G. Eventually they collaborated on a new project, unrelated to “Legends of the Coast” and “Gilbert and the Clockwork Pirates”. During that collaboration, their thoughts returned their semi-abandoned books for a younger audience.
Which brings us to the present.
Readers will now have the chance to read two exciting fantasy novels. And while neither book is part of the world of the other, the books share a common genesis and retain some similarities, such as kids transported back in time to an alternate, magical version of South Carolina, a world full of talking animals and other, stranger things, they are also distinctly different in many more and exciting ways.
We are confident that if you read one book, you will be equally enchanted with the other.
Sincerely,
The Evanation Studios Team
Evanation Studios 