Melissa H. North Melissa H. North i(11496545 works by) (a.k.a. Melissa H. Coleman)
Gender: Female
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1 1 y separately published work icon Hidden City of Alchemy Melissa H. North , Bloomington : Balboa Press , 2020 19550016 2020 single work novel fantasy young adult

'Young English woman, Elizabeth Peters has a ski-sloped nose, a hereditary defect from her father's side. But what is distinguishable about her is her intelligence. She'd rather spend her time inventing gadgets, redesigning engineering contraptions and doing word puzzles than becoming a respectable housewife as her mother wishes. Elizabeth's world is turned upside down one evening when she arrives home to find the house has been ransacked and her mother missing from her basement workshop - presumably kidnapped by German spies. After sifting through the wreckage, she discovers a dangerous family secret in a peculiar-looking cryptic diary, a strange talking ring and a French man - Albert Bourdillon. Lizzie must leave London and travel to France while learning the shocking truth about the owner of the diary and about a chemical which could destroy the world, if it should fall into the wrong hands. A chemical threat so lethal it could destroy herself, the people she loves and the world.'

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1 y separately published work icon A Confabulated Compendium of Anecdotes Melissa H. North , Australia : Septentrion Press , 2017 19549906 2017 selected work short story

'A Confabulated Compendium of Anecdotes is a Steampunk speculative collection of tales. The stories, herein, provide a glimpse into the imagination of a most anomalous Author.

'Be swept away, if you dare, by sultry maidens with mechanical gadgets, hi-tech flying machines and grinding gears. Peculiar alien forms hell-bent on saving the earth, and a conglomerate of Vamps lead by Count Valdo.

'Howbeit, why wait for me to tell you more, turn the book atop and be absorbed in the unputdownable.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 y separately published work icon The Halfling Melissa H. North , Gold Coast : Ocean Reeve Publishing , 2017 11496628 2017 single work novel young adult fantasy

'There are three things I know are certain in my life. Firstly, I am a cursed Halfling - part faerie, part human. Another thing I know is I hate faeries. They are deceitful, evil and conniving. The third thing I know - and it is a certainty - Nothing is guaranteed in this life including your sanity, your family and your world as you know it." -- Eliana. Eliana finds herself propelled into a world she longs to stay away from; a world where nothing is what it seems. In a race against minds, she must master her magic and fight an unimaginable darkness, stretching throughout the realm of Grandelione. The same darkness that cursed her mother and, now, her half-brother is laying dormant in her too. It grows stronger with each passing day. Left with two options, she must choose to fight and bring peace back to Grandelione or plunge into a world of darkness and murder. Can she learn to harness her magic and bring peace back to Grandelione and her family? Or will the darkness within consume her?' (Synopsis)
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