The Mara Chronicles
Enter the world of the Mara Chronicles where nightmares are real and they can get you killed…
Daughter of the Mara (Book I)
She thought she was insane until she found out she was so much more…
Jay knows she’s insane. After all, most people don’t have nightmares when they’re awake. Locked away at thirteen for a crime she doesn’t remember committing, Jay has spent the last five years in a psychiatric hospital unable to distinguish between real life and her waking nightmares.
But then she meets Harvey and everything changes. Harvey breaks her out of the hospital, telling her that she isn’t crazy, that she is the living embodiment of a nightmare: a mara.
As Jay struggles to control the nightmares within her, she is faced with opponents outside her own mind: Harvey’s brother Edmund, whose affection for Jay seems too good to be true, the mother who abandoned her as a child, and an entire court of mara who want to kill her for merely existing.
In this dark YA fantasy, Jay is torn between the waking world and the realm of nightmares and must work to control her powers and achieve her destiny before forces darker than her own nightmares lock her away for good.
“The story is emotionally charged and readers can’t fail to appreciate the psychological depth of the conflict. Daughter of the Mara is beautifully written and it is heartbreaking at times to watch the protagonist struggle with her reality, unable to trust her mind and the world around her. Alexandra Bittner’s writing transports readers from their immediate reality and thrusts them into a world where they begin to feel goosebumps and wonder if anything is real. A page-turner in its genre. “
Heir to the Dreamscape (Book II)
Coming 2023
Jayashree Atkinson is on a mission. After a traitorous ex kills the love of her life she must venture into the heart of the dreamscape to get him back. Will she be able to save Harvey in time or will they both be lost in the dreamscape forever?
Meanwhile, in the waking world, trouble is brewing at the mara court. Jay’s appearance as the rightful heir to the throne has angered several of those who had their eye on usurping it and as if things weren’t hectic enough a dangerous enemy from Harvey and Edmund’s past has reappeared to stir up trouble.
In this second volume of The Mara Chronicles follow Jay, Edmund, Harvey, and Vivian as they battle the dangers of the dreamscape and the machinations of the waking world in their quest to help Jay fulfill her destiny.
“The first chapter was full of intrigue and interesting characters drawing me in straight away. It was an original story and I enjoyed learning about the world of the Mara.”