Isa Briarwood
Award-winning author of YA novels
About the author
Isa Briarwood is the pseudonym for an award-winning author living in the Midwest of the United States. She has Associate degrees in both fine art and biology, a Bachelor’s degree in English, is certified in Transpersonal Hypnotherapy specializing in past life regressions, and has studied various energy medicine modalities. She also studied Black Sect Feng Shui with Seann Xenja, who learned his craft directly from His Holiness Grandmaster Professor Lin Yun, who brought Feng Shui to this country.She’s a former acupuncturist who interned in hospitals and clinics in Guangzhou, China. She operated a private practice for several years while simultaneously teaching basics of Oriental Medicine to massage students in various community colleges.She’s passionate about writing, reading, creating art, people watching, having philosophical discussions, and cooking vegetarian ethnic food. She reads tarot, Lenormand, and oracle cards for people, and she loves to travel. She lived alone for a year and a half in the highlands of the Republic of Panama, and hopes to live abroad again one day.Besides writing fiction, she also edits and proofreads for other writers (StillWatersEditing.com).
A Drop of Blue
An average Wednesday night gets turned upside down when Cate inexplicably finds herself whisked to The Village, a way station for accidental time travelers. And she’s not there alone.Stranded amongst countless others struggling to grasp that the year is 2043, she meets Angus Danann, a handsome 19-year-old boy from Ireland. They are magnetically drawn to each other from the beginning, although Cate tries to suppress her feelings. But then Angus tells her about an intriguing Irish myth involving a goddess of dreams and the man who loves her. They both recognize themselves in the legend, and admit to having independent yet eerily coincidental experiences.It becomes clear that Angus and Cate are destined to be at The Village together, if only to figure out how to help the other “rifters” back to their own time. As the two of them struggle through one harrowing situation after another, they attract the attention of General Lyons, the stern overseer of The Village. He suspects the rising toll of incidents associated with Cate and Angus aren’t happening by chance.With their lives at risk, Angus is forced to reveal a secret that changes the game completely—for all of them. If they give General Lyons what he wants, they get to go home. But if they succeed at their task, Cate and Angus doom themselves to being stranded in vastly different times, separated from one another forever.
3rd Place Feathered Quill Award Winner in YA fiction – 2018
1st Place Purple Dragonfly Award Winner in YA fiction – 2018
B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree – 2018
Swan Girl
Cate and Angus barely managed to escape from The Village, a way station for accidental time travelers. In order to save Angus’s life, Cate had no choice but to follow him to his timeline. But now Angus is healed, and despite the wondrous things he shows her, she has painful decisions to make.Her family exists in 1972, and she yearns to reunite with them. But to go back means leaving Angus behind, and she loves him more than she ever thought possible. Pulling at her conscience are the lives of thousands of rifters she vowed to rescue. They remain trapped by the malignant General Lyons, a man who views rifters as merely lab rats to exploit for financial gain. Cate and Angus are the only ones who have a chance of saving them, but this time they won’t be able to do it alone.Swan Girl is the second and final book in the Rifters series, bringing the adventure begun in A Drop of Blue to a stunning conclusion.
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