title: The Adventures of Cecilia Spark: The Brimstone Forest
author:  Ngaire Elder 
description: Ngaire Elder, author of The Adventures of Cecilia Spark novels, is a natural storyteller whose love of animals is reflected in her work. Ngaire was born and raised in Glasgow, Scotland, where she spent most of her childhood playing with her brother and her imaginary friends. As a child, she wrote plays, just for fun, but it would be years before her first book was ultimately published. After college and university, Ngaire embarked on a career in the health and safety sector. As a Health and Safety Advisor, she was instrumental in implementing health and safety laws in the workplace. After meeting her husband, she chose a new occupation, and became a full-time wife and mother. In the past decade, Ngaire has managed to balance a writing career and family commitments. She has participated in reading events at primary schools in County Derry, Northern Ireland, Seeley Primary School, Sherwood, and celebrated World Book Day 2014 with the pupils at St Anthonys College, Spain. Ngaire has taught English to young children participating in the Spanish school systems extracurricular activity programme. She has been interviewed extensively by European and American bloggers, and her work has been featured in Indie Author News, British Indie Fiction, Inkspokes, the Coleraine Times, and The Nottingham Post. Ngaire is a passionate supporter of horse rescue, having volunteered in a rescue center in southern Spain. She is actively involved in fund raisers supporting not only local rescue centers, but also for international programs, such as saving the wild mustangs in the Pryor Mountain range in Montana. Ngaire resides in Spain with her husband and four children.
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  SHIELD SKIN
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  By F.E. Arliss
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  Table of Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  1.The Crones
  
  
  2.The Mansion House
  
  
  3.Learning Stuff
  
  
  4.The Protection Ceremony
  
  
  5.Scrying
  
  
  6.Study
  
  
  7.Canyon de Chelly
  
  
  8.Eagle Rising
  
  
  9.Romance - Not
  
  
  10.Calakmul
  
  
  11.Priestess
  
  
  12.Snake Bite
  
  
  13.Envy Envelopes
  
  
  14.Bats and Frogs, No Eye of Newt
  
  
  15.Where to Next?
  
  
  16.Wood Wose or Fairies; House Elves or Erdenne?
  
  
  17.Wolpathugas
  
  
  18.Fairies, Werewolves, Ogres and Bahkauvs
  
  
  19.What the Heck?
  
  
  20.Rest and Contemplation
  
  
  21.Preparation and Graduation
  
  
  22.Gift from the Crones
  
  
  23.Into The Badlands
  
  
  24.Wind, Air, Fire, Flying
  
  
  25.Lightning
  
  
  26.The Aftermath
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  Chapter One
  
  
  
  
  
  The Crones
  
  
  
  
  
  Emery Harlow lay on her side, her spine pressed into the cool dirt at her
  back. She lay in a concave depression hidden by a great tangle of roots. The
  small niche had been exposed when a flood the year before had swe