Special education teacher Reeni Dutta thought the private school job in a place called Klone's Stronghold, located in an isolated part of Northeastern Oregon, might just be the thing to escape her blood elemental husband Karl, along with her overbearing parents who treat her like she's thirteen and not thirty-three. Even if that means teaching cryptid construct children. Even if...it turns out that the leader of Klone's Stronghold has...supernatural parts to his being.
Then...she learns that SHE isn't what she thought she was. More than that, she has to learn how to survive in a world filled with supernatural beings who want to exploit what she is--in order to protect the Stronghold, her students, and those who depend upon the Stronghold for safety.
What can one little special education teacher do in this situation? Well, if you're Reeni Dutta....
Joyce Reynolds-Ward has been called “the best writer I’ve never heard of” by one reviewer. She has published over 32 books that include themes of high-stakes family, corporate, and political conflict, digital sapience, personal agency, realistic strong women, and (whenever possible) horses, frequently in Pacific Northwest settings.
She is the author of six speculative fiction series: The Netwalk Sequence, Goddess's Honor, The Martiniere Legacy Quartet, The People of the Martiniere Legacy, The Martiniere Multiverse, and The Cost of Power as well as standalones Vision of Alliance, Federation Cowboy, Beating the Apocalypse, Klone's Stronghold: Reeni and Alien Savvy.
Joyce is a Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off Semifinalist, a Writers of the Future SemiFinalist, and an Anthology Builder Finalist. She is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, co-chair of SFWA’s Independent Author Committee, and a member of Soroptimists International.