Keepers of the North Gate · Book One of Six
Some doors only open for a heart freely given.
A completed six-book found-family fantasy saga. Low spice, slow burn, no cliffhangers.
A grieving nurse. A loyal dog. A glowing dragonfly that should not exist.
Rowan Parker has spent two years outrunning the guilt of her grandmother's death. By day she holds strangers' lives steady in the emergency room of her small mountain town. By night she walks the forest trails above Tamarack with Cedar, the dog who knows her heart better than anyone.
Then a blue-glowing dragonfly leads her to a standing stone that wakes at her touch, and to Ethan Hayes, a field ecologist chasing impossible data, and to the truth her grandmother guarded for fifty years: the quiet places of the world are dying, and someone is taking what they hold.
The road out of Tamarack gathers a family around her: a diver who counts her way across every dangerous crossing, a quiet carver whose whole heart fits in the smallest gestures, a botanist with a secret that could break them all. Together they race a grieving billionaire to the golden heart of the world. The price of saving everything is one heart, freely given. And love must decide exactly what it is willing to pay.
A Balance of Shadows is a slow-burn, low-spice, small-town fantasy romance for readers who love found family, loyal dogs, ancient magic, and healing after grief. Book One of the Keepers of the North Gate series: a complete story with a happy ending and no cliffhanger.
Each book brings a new couple into the family. Rowan and Ethan, Riley and Alex, Ellen and Gunnar, Danny and Etta. The love story renews with every book instead of ending with one wedding.
Content note: includes peril to a beloved dog. It is not a dead-dog story.
For empaths and highly sensitive people · Second Edition
You can tell what mood someone is in before they say a word. Crowds drain you. Strangers tell you things they have not told their own families. This is the manual nobody handed you. The science, a twenty-question self-check, and tools that work in three minutes in a parking lot. A fully rewritten second edition of The Empowered Empath. Coming soon from Kypex Media.
Six read-aloud mysteries for ages 4-8 · Coming soon
When Gigi's prized honey jar vanishes on the very day of the big Harvest Picnic, her five grandkids are on the case. A warm, funny read-aloud mystery for ages 4 to 8, with clues to spot, questions to answer out loud, and a farm full of unforgettable animals. Coming soon from Kypex Media.
Ron W. Mason writes stories about ordinary people who find the extraordinary hiding at the edge of their own backyards: hidden doors in familiar woods, small towns with long memories, and the families we build when the world asks more of us than we can carry alone.
That one idea runs through every shelf he writes for. In A Balance of Shadows, it becomes a slow-burn fantasy romance about grief, courage, and a forest that has been keeping a family's name for fifty years; the story continues in A Gathering of Storms and A Turning of Tides, Books Two and Three of the Keepers of the North Gate series. In Gigi's Farm Mysteries, his mystery series for young readers, it becomes a missing jar of honey, five determined grandkids, and a farm full of suspects. And in You Feel Everything, the new second edition of The Empowered Empath, it sets the story aside and speaks plainly, as a practical guide for people who feel the world more deeply than most. Different shelves, same door: all of his books are for anyone who has ever stood at the tree line at dusk and felt certain that something on the other side was listening.
A professional writer by trade and a storyteller by nature, he writes the kind of stories he wants more of in the world: truthful ones, felt all the way through, finished when they're ready. He is a lifelong dog lover, a fact his readers tend to figure out by chapter three.
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