Fire

As the daughter of a noble Menuma lives a life of luxury with servants to fulfil every wish. She has every reason to look forward to her 18th birthday. Forced to marry a man she fears, she realises it is a golden cage. The only hope to save her family is to run away from home and leaving everything behind. While on the run and looking for help she meets Pjotr, who is also changing his destiny. After his parents died he discovers he is not who he thought he was. A single coin is the only clue he has to start his journey of discovery. Following the clues he meets Menuma and rescues her from a dangerous situation. Both are looking for help from the Old Woman at the Lake and the magic people she belongs to. They discover not just who they are, they also try to thwart a conspiracy, prevent a war and find a dragon.

J. M. Marnix has lived and worked as a teacher in many countries. Reading books to children has always been very important to her. On request of her class and her own children she started to create her own stories, set in new worlds. The step to writing the stories down was made with the favourite story of her children.

Currently she lives in a small village in the Netherlands, with both her children. She works as a teacher in the Special Needs Education.