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Emotional, deep, layered, beautiful, and stunning. This book of adoption poems will break your heart, then stitch it back together again.
Drawing on her own experience as an adopted child, author Celaine Charles crafts poems based on both her own life and fictionalized stories of her own design. The result is a powerful and honest book because it is told from the heart.
How does it feel to give up your child for adoption, to adopt, or be adopted? Three Hearts Stitched tells the story from each view, often in a way you didn’t expect, revealing deep emotions and heart. The child who wonders if they were wanted or unwanted. A birth mother filled simultaneously with sorrow and hope. Parents who long for children to arrive.
Confusion, sadness, joy. All these feelings and more are captured in Three Hearts Stitched. Let your heart break, mourn, and get stitched back together again.
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Stained Glass Secrets and Star Wishes
Ember McCoy, a young and stressed accountant, plans to spend Christmas alone at her family’s lakeside cabin. But after a mysterious man offers his kindness and time, she begins to reassess her fast-paced world. Holding a star-shaped, stained-glass cookie up to the light, she makes a wish. Is the glistening candy-blue center a hopeful sign there may be more to her existence than the long work hours draining the joy from her life?
Laiken Devere, an Ashrai water fairy, laments the passing of his grandmother and his future in the shadows of his older brothers. To honor his grandmother, he visits the human world above James Lake, asking the stars to reveal his destiny. But why would it lead him to an impossible relationship with a human, especially the sorrowful young Ember he found by the lake?
Does Ember and Laiken’s future together now rely on stained-glass secrets and star wishes?
Cover design: Kristian Norris
NEST Finalist in the category of Paranormal Short Story, 2023!
Holiday Paranormal Romance Novella
Seam Keepers
YA/NA Contemporary Fantasy
Ashton Nichols dreads the changes graduation will bring, most of all, losing her impulsive best friend, Mason. Her world turns upside down when she follows him into the woods and encounters a demon and a destiny beyond what she ever imagined.
Mason Deed seeks freedom from his grief-stricken father. But after his encounter in the woods, he must think about Ashton's safety. Hiding the truth from her about her identity leaves them both vulnerable and caught between good and evil.
Together they uncover the unimaginable. Will they find enough courage and strength to claim their own free will, save their families, and protect human souls?
Gold Moonbeam Award in the category of YA Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2021!
NEST Third Place Award in the category of Paranormal, 2022!
Now in AUDIO, narrated by Jillian Yetter!
Cover design: Kristian Norris
Colors Collected
Colors Collected is a poetry debut from Pacific Northwest writer, Celaine Charles. Gathering thirty-one poems from her online poetry series, Colors, she has also penned new pieces to complete this picturesque book. Her hope is to inspire a celebration of color in her readers, encouraging them to slow down and notice the world around.
Celaine’s poems include whimsical insights about everyday life, from the softest shades to the boldest tints, to the wonderings of a world with no color at all:
“If I write these words, will they
be remembered?
Will children one day find
a poem about a tree,
and wonder
at the vibrant color
described in a verdant forest glen?”
Cover design: Anna Vowels
Dime Show Review
Dime Show Review is a curated collection of poetry and fiction featuring poets and authors from around the globe. This work represents our modern-day truth: beauty, pain, curiosity, and humor. Celaine's poem is entitled, The Secret of Life (From the Back of my Mind).
Colors
(Online Series)
Colors, an award-winning online poetry series, is a collection of Sixty-two poems for subscribers at Channillo.com. Each poem captures the shades and tints of color Celaine has found along her journey in life. Her wish is to inspire a color in readers with each poem read. This series also inspired her book, Colors Collected, (Palmetto Publishing Group, 2019). All proceeds from this series are donated through Channillo Charities to Mary’s Place, a Seattle-based organization helping children and families facing homelessness.
This online poetry series won three awards in 2018:
Best New Poetry Series
Best Continuing Poetry Series
Best Poetry
Cover design: Anna Vowels