Bloodstone Legacy - Paperback

by Susan Larned Womble (Author)

BLOOD STONE LEGACY weaves a tale of hope, love, following dreams, fulfilling a destiny and making your own choices.According to an obscure tribal prophecy, descendants of five original ancient clans, geographically separated for centuries because of betrayal, will unite and discover their utopia through a "special one" only if the right path is followed. A newly, formed school in Berry, Florida provides this setting.Leah, a direct American ancient tribal descendant, is given an heirloom ruby on her fifteenth birthday awakening her unique abilities of heightened senses and the power to locate a magical fountain hidden for centuries. Florida's Fountain of Youth? She is guided by a voice only she can hear. Conflicts arise when arranged marriages and birth order rules are presented to twenty-first century teenagers. Leah meets Z and falls for him. They're forbidden to see each other. Z is banished to Alaska and his original tribe because he's promised to another. Z is forced to obey his tribe to preserve the sanctity of the prophecy. Enter Heath, a rich descendant of another clan family. Leah is torn by feelings for both and uncertainty about her destiny. Should she wait for Z, choose Heath, or pursue her plans to become a doctor? Will she give up on her dreams? What is her destiny?Her questions are halted as attempts are made on her life and the life of her brothers. Who is trying to kill her and why? Inner clans believe Leah's brothers are threats igniting a power struggle within tribal hierarchy. Are they the culprits? A perilous journey commences as Leah learns about her powers, the prophecy, and her place in it from an elder clan descendant. The prophecy's vague interpretation causes upheaval, mayhem, life/death choices. Who's the "special one?" Does anyone really know what it all means? Who will survive?Teacher/Author Susan Larned Womble's first book won the Gold Medal in Children's Literature for the Florida Book Awards.

Author Biography

Susan Womble is an award-winning author. Her first novel "Newt's World: Beginnings" won the 2008 Gold Medal Florida Book Award. It is also on the 2009-2013 Just Read Florida Recommended Reading List. Her writing credits also include teacher's and student's workbook editions, the second entitled, "Newt's World: Internal Byte" and accompanying workbook. Susan Womble lives in Tallahassee, Florida with her family. She is a National Board Certified teacher with a career of teaching grades K-12th in the areas of reading, special education, language arts, math, social studies, and the profoundly handicapped.Her first series deals with issues she saw in her class. She looked at her students in her classroom and wrote her book with video gaming, computers, texting, technology, virtual worlds, bullying, cyberbullying, tolerance, and fitting in issues. Her book is a story of friendship. The hero Newt using a wheelchair discovers what friendship is about and how to deal with bullies. "The Big Wheel" is a dystopian story. Womble decided to write about her experiences in Bavaria in this book using her firsthand accounts of the setting to weave a tale about a society long separated that has to find a way to work together again. Parts of the story deals with indentured servants, royals, slavery, the 'haves' and 'have nots'. Some people who have flaws are deemed Undesirable and labeled as such while others are branded as Uncounteds and are under the control of the mercenaries who sell people as slaves. Quarantined because of a virus outbreak twelve years this new society forms and communications are restored. It is a fight between the "royals," the society of island people who control the root that cures the virus and the mercenaries who want to control everything and everyone.Teen/Romance "Blood Stone Legacy" weaves a tale of hope, love, following dreams, fulfilling a destiny and making your own choices. According to an obscure tribal prophecy, descendants of five original ancient clans, geographically separated for centuries because of betrayal, will unite and discover their utopia through a "special one" only if the right path is followed.Leah, a direct American ancient tribal descendant, is given an heirloom ruby on her fifteenth birthday awakening her unique abilities of heightened senses and the power to locate a magical fountain hidden for centuries. Florida's Fountain of Youth?The prophecy's vague interpretation causes upheaval, mayhem, life/death choices.