Jacquelyn Holmes

From the back of the book: A Gift From The Stars. As you choose in all matters, you have ultimate free choice, as long as you do not seriously interfere with the choices of other roving personalities... A superior alien intelligence rules over Earth with absolute benevolence and total control. It offers man a future with no seeming limit to time or space- or reality. Any man can have anything he is capable of wanting, forever. Does man really want absolute free will- and what will he do...

From the back of the book: "...Coralie Sardie is the daughter of the sinister impresario behind The Museum of Extraordinary Things, a Coney Island boardwalk freak show that thrills the masses. An exceptional swimmer, Coralie appears as the Mermaid in her father's "museum," alongside performers like the Wolfman, the Butterfly Girl, and a one-year-old turtle. One night Coralie stumbles upon a striking young man taking pictures of moonlit trees in the woods off the Hudson River. The dashing...

From the back of the book: "The boy is Pelleas, bastard son of Uther the Pendragon. The smith is Myrddin, known as a sorcerer wise in countless arts. Through Pelleas' eyes unfolds the harsh, violent, surprising world of fifth-century Britain: a land torn by strife, struggling toward glory, and changed forever when a royal baby- Arthur- is smuggled to a remote island. There Arthur will be raised by Myrddin, Pelleas and the enchanting child Nithe... until it is time for him to pull the sword...