The Joy Forest Cozy Mystery Series
A Gaggle of Geese
Joy Forest is working to beat the clock on a looming deadline, when she gets a call from her friend, Sophia, traumatized by the disappearance of the Goose Girl Statue, which has the reputation of spontaneously healing any human ailment.
Joy has never heard of the Goose Girl Statue. But that doesn’t prevent her from soon becoming involved up to her eyelashes in the mystery. Where has the statue gotten to, and by what means?
As the suspects mount, Joy tries to persuade the caretaker of the Goose Girl Statue, Miss Star Moon, owner of a church and its attached property she had turned into an animal sanctuary, that the ancient, mystical statue did not apport back to India, as she’s convinced. Joy is equally convinced it was removed by human hands.
But … whose?
A GAGGLE OF GEESE takes place in the Cascade foothills of Washington state, in the near-future world of 2032, a world of eccentric small-town people and peculiar small town events. Although the times are somewhat different, people are ever the same … lovable or loathsome, truthful or deceitful, generous or selfish, courageous or timid, loyal or treacherous, but always a mystery!
What Readers Are Saying:
Blythe Ayne continues to delight the reader with her vivid descriptions, near-future technologies, and colorful characterizations of humans and animals. A delightful read!
C. Greear
The Joy Forest Cozy Mystery Series is a refreshing futuristic mystery series whose main character, Joy, is charming and whimsical. I look forward to sitting down and enjoying another story by Blythe Ayne.
G.T.
If you love mysteries and quirky characters, you’ll love A GAGGLE OF GEESE, a Joy Forest Cozy Mystery.
A Clowder of Cats
Dr. Joy Forest’s Sri Lanka research is disrupted when a beautiful woman with violet eyes breaches the security of her home by paranormal means and insists Joy look for her missing cat. Although Joy agrees to, she does so for the sake of the cat, more than for the strange woman.
As Joy searches for the missing Booji, she finds several other cats, unearthing the mysteries of the people they belong to along the way. It’s an intriguing journey of mystical places and unusual creatures, with a dash of romance.
A CLOWDER OF CATS takes place in the Cascade foothills of Washington state, in the near-future world of 2032, a world of eccentric small-town people and peculiar small town events. You’ll discover that although the times are somewhat different, people are ever the same … lovable or loathsome, truthful or deceitful, generous or selfish, courageous or timid, loyal or treacherous, but always a mystery!
A CLOWDER OF CATS invites you to curl up in your favorite cozy nook and escape into a delightful world of enigma and riddle.
A CLOWDER OF CATS, a Joy Forest Cozy (no murder!) Mystery.
A Haras of Horses
Dr. Joy Forest, a social scientist, is called to her childhood home for an emergency, but soon discovers a mystery … the neighbor’s gorgeous black stallion seems to have disappeared into thin air. What happened to him? It looks more and more like dirty deeds are involved.
Discover with Joy not only what happened to the beautiful horse, but also what all the whirling, swirling, unfolding events around her reveal to her about her childhood friends and family … and her heart.
The JOY FOREST COZY MYSTERY SERIES is a world of eccentric small-town people and small town strange events. The year is 2032. It’s a near-future world with a bit of science fiction and a whole lot of mystery. People go missing, a community gets involved – mysteries must be solved!
Horses and cozy mysteries – a great combination!
A Haras of Horses – A Joy Forest Cozy (no murder!) Mystery
Welcome to A LOVELINESS OF LADYBUGS – a world of eccentric small-town people and small town strange events. It’s a near-future world with a bit of science fiction and a whole lot of mystery. People go missing, a community gets involved – mysteries must be solved! If you enjoy unraveling an enigma along with the protagonist, you’ll love THE JOY FOREST COZY MYSTERY SERIES!
In the Cascade foothills of Washington state the eccentric owner of a local health food store has disappeared. Or is it a publicity stunt? And what do the ladybugs know that Joy needs to discover?
A LOVELINESS OF LADYBUGS invites you to curl up with your favorite beverage and escape into a curious, mysterious world of foggy mornings and rainy evenings.…
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The Darling Undesirables Series
The Darling Undesirables takes place in a post steampunk world where dark energy harnessed by a reclusive genius, known as “Father Inventor” – revered by many, reviled by more.
Energy problems solved, humanity becomes obsessed with unlocking the secrets to eternal life. Unrestricted experimentation has produced a population of parentless and deformed children, the Darling Undesirables. Named for their missing body part, each Darling Undesirable is pampered, adored and indulged, with the most charming – or physically haunting – becoming popular media pets.
The most adored Darling Undesirable is 15-year-old Heart. She dreams of escaping with her friend, Eye, and the beloved, centuries-old, clockwork horse. But first, she must save Father Inventor and the world he brought into being from the evil forces of The Purists, intent on destroying everything he ever accomplished.
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Moons Rising
Moons Rising, is Book 2 of The Darling Undesirables series. Heart and her winged clockworks horse, Equuleus, land safely out of the clutches of The Purists on the synthetic moon known simply as Pink, constructed by her father, Father Inventor, many years previous, where he escaped when banished from Earth.
Heart and Equuleus are left to explore as her father becomes ever more engrossed in the creation of a shield to protect Pink from the rabid determination of The Purists to destroy the little moon and everything on it.
Fearing that life on the eternally twilight moon may prove to be dangerously boring, Heart suddenly discovers that it’s filled with mystery and intrigue and astonishingly more complicated than it first appears.
As power plays augment on Earth with the threat of frightening repercussions for Pink, Xavier, a strange—yet beautiful!—shape-shifting young man appears on the scene to help Father Inventor save his world, while proclaiming an undying love for Heart.
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The Inventor’s Clone
Saving Worlds….
The Inventor’s Clone, Book 3 of The Darling Undesirables series. Reeling from shock after the Bot Invasion on Pink, the synthetic moon constructed by her father, Heart is surveying the destruction when she hears a high-pitched wail, and comes upon the little clockwork dog, Yippee. He leads her a pile of stone under which his mistress is trapped. Heart quickly mobilizes the surviving clockworks, mechanical, and bio residents of Pink, to save her.
Filled with fury and grief at the relentless wicked destruction, Heart resolves to right the wrongs of The Purists,who are hell-bent on destroying the life-improving works of Father Inventor and the good deeds of The Cause of All Beings.
The mystery heightens when Heart returns to Earth with Equuleus and Jackson to try to solve the riddle Xavier put in place with arcane puzzle pieces that may lead to the whereabouts of her father’s cloned brain, illegally downloaded many years previous and believed destroyed. But it’s now on the scene, cleverly and diligently countering Father Inventor’s every move.
Heart faces her worst nightmare when she is caught in an underground maze made of an adamantine mirrored matrix, populated by Bots. Will she discover her father’s cloned brain and save The Darling Undesirables, Earth, and Pink from it, and the evil acts of The Purists?
Or will The Inventor’s Clone prevail?
“Blythe Ayne’s beautiful penmanship pulls you into a vivid world, imaginative beyond words – the world of The Darling Undesirables is a true gem of literature that will appeal to all ages.”
Lizzy Shannon, Author of Time Twist & A Celtic Yearbook.
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Heart’s Quest
Heart’s Quest, Book 4 of The Darling Undesirables series.Suspense and panic mount when the Purists kidnap the entire population of children and keepers from The Darling Undesirables Facility at The Gulf. This dire news comes on the heels of equally terrible news that Father Inventor’s clone made clones—and these clones have been reproducing.
With a report of over one-thousand programmed-for-evil clones of the great and kind Father Inventor, Jackson leaves the little moon, Pink, flying to Earth to undertake the clone calamity. Heart soon follows, with a single-minded determination to find and rescue the abducted Darlings.
Meanwhile, Peter has saved the children from several Darling Undesirable Facilities, bringing them aboard the flying, city-sized Gargantua.
Heart refuses to relinquish her belief that The Cause of All Beings will prevail. And though she and Jackson continue to spar over everything, they prove to be an unbeatable force when the Purists initiate battle.
But will Heart’s greatest desire ever come to pass? Will The Darling Undesirables ever have a real home of their own, with freedom for all?
And, last … but not least, will Heart and Jackson—for all their brilliance!—ever discover that the shortest distance between two points is … LOVE?
The Heart of Leo
The Heart of Leo – a prequel short story to The Darling Undesirables series.
Fall in Love with a Star…. Heart, a girl of fifteen, lives in a world of madness and grace, where test-tube babies are propagated to discover the secrets of Eternal Life.
Left as a foundling on the doorstep of a Darling Undesirables facility, alive and healthy – without a heart! – she has always loved stars. Her first love is Caffau’s star, 13 billion years old, in the Heart of Leo, one of the oldest and most mysterious stars in the Universe. Her destiny is set into motion when a Being of Light comes to her from Caffau’s star. With a voice of wind chimes, he takes her on a journey through the Universe and teaches her that the Power of the Universe is shaped by the Power of Love. The Heart of Leo is the novella prequel to The Darling Undesirables, and includes chapter one of The Darling Undesirables.
Short Stories & Novellas
When Fields Hum and Glow
Newly-wed Emily, living in the bucolic region of England’s Pewsey Vale, discovers her long-sought destiny on a supernatural summer evening—and perhaps saves the world at the same time.
Read a provocative answer to the question of crop circles with lots of researched science.
Review of When Fields Hum and Glow:
“A lovely story that that makes you think … you will return to it in your mind well after reading it….” C. Robson
Lovely Frights for Lonely Nights
From time travel to a terrorizing desert Genie (Jinn) to a man taking a fractal journey into the next life so that a child might be reunited with his mother, these stories take a look into other dimensions, other realities.
Most of the tales in Lovely Frights for Lonely Nights have been previously published in print and/or online.
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