Author: Jaleigh Johnson – Middle Grade Carousel

Meteor Shower

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"Meddlers were people who'd learned through experimentation--and the occasional loss of limb--how to shape the bits of leftover animus, creating their own magical trinkets. Sometimes these trinkets worked, but most often they didn't." -Door to the Lost by Jaleigh Johnson

Red Sky

The sky above the wall was always a different color than the sky over the rest of the city. Today it was blister red, clouds swirling in a towering vortex, almost as if the wind was blowing in different directions on the other side of the wall. It probably was. The Wasteland obeyed no laws of nature.

Door to the Lost
Jaleigh Johnson

Door to the Lost by Jaleigh Johnson

Star Shaped

Her magic doors took many different forms, but the way to the roost was always the same: a small yellow door with a black latch and matching hinges in the shape of stars.

The Door to the Lost
Jaleigh Johnson
Door to the Lost by Jaleigh Johnson

The Mark of the Dragonfly

The Mark of the Dragonfly
World of Solace, #1
Jaleigh Johnson

Piper knew she should be proud of her talent, and she was, but it made her nervous the way people whispered about her.
—THE MARK OF THE DRAGONFLY

Mark of the Dragonfly

Piper is an orphan from a shanty town, barely surviving on what she can earn from Continue reading “The Mark of the Dragonfly”