Books For All Ages
Who We Are
Janet Fox is the author of 12 traditionally-published books for young readers, from picture books through young adult novels, fiction and non-fiction, in multiple genres.
Janet has created OwlFox Press with her son, K. MacCabe, in order to republish her own out-of-print books, and to publish new work by both authors independently.
K. MacCabe is the author of 6 independently-published books for adults, in genres of science fiction and contemporary adventure.
Our Books: Janet Fox
Titles For Middle Grade and Young Adult Readers
Middle Grade Novels
The Charmed Children of Rookskill Castle
"Witchy magic, Nazi menace, and clockwork all come into play, along with an Enigma machine and spies for both the Allies and the Nazis seeking occult sources of power or protection. After the breathtaking climax, various threads of the story are tied up in a drawing-room denouement in which the characters decide to dispose of toxic magical artifacts rather carelessly—though in a way that invites anticipation (and fortuitously leaves room for sequels). An original, clever, page-turning adventure.” Kirkus, starred review
For readers 10+
Young Adult Short Stories
Unbound
Rooted in ancient myth, these stories follow women who change—physically and emotionally—to claim their power.
In Unbound, women step out of the shadows of myth and fairy tales and into their own power. Drawing on ancient traditions of goddesses, nymphs, and mortal women shaped and tested by gods and men, these stories reimagine transformation as an act of survival and resistance. Through physical and emotional change, each woman claims what has been denied her before: her autonomy, her voice, and her strength of purpose. Lyrical and fierce, Unbound is a collection about breaking free from what confines women and discovering who we are when we do.
For readers 16+
Young Adult Novels
Faithful
In 1904, a teen born into society had few choices, but when Maggie Bennet is forced to leave her Newport home for the wilds of Yellowstone everything in her life changes.
The Gilded Age meets Yellowstone in this historical fiction romance set in the landscape of geysers and great beauty.
For readers 14 +
Forgiven
Kula Baker never expected to find herself on the streets of San Francisco in 1906. The daughter of an outlaw, Kula is soon swept up in a world of art and elegance – a world she hardly dared dream of back in Montana. She meets the handsome David Wong, whose smiling eyes and soft-spoken manner have an uncanny way of breaking through Kula’s carefully crafted reserve.
Yet when a mighty earthquake strikes and the wreckage threatens all she holds dear, Kula realizes that only by unlocking her heart can she begin to carve a new future for herself.
For readers 14 +
Sirens
Josephine Winter, seventeen, is sent to live with relatives in New York City after her bootlegging father receives a threat, but bookish Jo harbors her own secrets. She finds friendship with lively Louise O’Keefe and romance with sweet jazz musician Charlie.
As Jo unlocks dark mysteries and Lou’s eyes are opened, the girls’ treacherous paths intertwine. Jo and Lou together will have to stand up to Connor in order to find their hearts and hang onto their souls in the “decade of decadence.”
For readers 14 +
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Our Books: K. MacCabe
Titles For Adult Readers
Science Fiction
Novellas
Silent Refrain
The war is now a storm long past, but the scars still linger, and they are deep. Sophia Trotsky has arrived to give an interview for a documentary on The Great War, where the memories hit as hard as the battles. However, the courage to face the memories once more comes from a chance encounter with a reflection of the tattered soul within.
Twisted Steel
As the war drags into its sixth month, peace seems like a distant memory, and things like love and laughter seem like glimpses of a forgotten childhood. But when Irvad Isan, an imperial special forces commando, meets the young Serena Hodge, a Coalition widow, sparks fly.
Faced with war and grief and the constant threat of terrorist attack, their love blossoms slowly. But blossom it does. When the Coalition rebels see Serena's feelings for Irvad, they are taken as treachery, and Irvad's loyalties are tested as he tries to balance his lover's safety with his duties as an Imperial soldier.
Novels
Ballad of Broken Glass
Peace has reigned across the Galaxy for over two centuries, and no one can believe that such an accomplishment nears an end. However, as dreadnoughts muster in the capital of the Earth Empire, and threaten her home nation of the Coalition, Sophia Trotsky finds herself at the dawn of war. Armed with the belief that she can make a difference the young naval intelligence officer finds herself a front-line combatant–where history cannot be made by one person alone.
When the bombs and shells drag minutes into hours, what truly is important becomes the only source of light beneath the shadow of war.
Dance in Darkness
Destitute, desperate, and devoid of allies, the Earth Empire saw its only escape through the flames of war. In the shadow of his sister's death, once the greatest pilot in Imperial History, Aaron Strand must face the war alone with a single objective, and become a hero like his sister before him. Shy, scared, and surrounded by carnage, Aaron must find his courage and become the man he wishes to see in the mirror.
But when the Coalition insurgents separate him from his unit, Aaron must team up with his bully to survive and maybe even find some piece of his sister's courage within himself.
A Song of Shattered Stars
The war is no longer new. The wounds are deeper, the cost heavier—and Commander Sophia Trotsky has come a long way from the blood-soaked fields of Kadesh.
Now, on the bridge of the aging CSS Ernest E. Evans, the man who might end the war lies in her sickbay. His survival—and perhaps the fate of the galaxy—hinges on the choices she makes next.
To save him, Sophia must become the commander no one believes she can be.
But when a wolf pack of Imperial destroyers descends, her crew is thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse. Outgunned, outmatched, and flying a relic of a ship, Sophia must fight—not just for survival, but for something greater.
Waltz of War
Aaron Strand, a hardened assault trooper of the Earth Empire, no longer flinches at war. When sent behind enemy lines to destroy a Coalition superweapon, the mission is clear—but the cost is not. As each choice pushes him toward brutality, Aaron must decide if victory is worth losing his humanity or if anything of it remains at all.
Contemporary Adventure - out now!
Thriller, adventure story, for fans of Indiana Jones and the work of Clive Cussler…an exciting, fast-paced treasure hunt set in the American West, as Abe Grant, archeologist, works alongside Native scholar Maya Yazzie to save a lost legendary city from destruction.
Dr. Abraham Grant is pulled into a dangerous new mystery when rumors surface of Tokaloma-the Dreaming City, a lost Native American metropolis said to lie buried deep within Wyoming's Wind River Range. Legends speak of a vanished civilization, impossible wealth, and a power that drove men mad. Most dismiss it as myth.
But Abe is not the only one searching.
Blackreach Industries, a ruthless corporate empire led by billionaire heir Elias Young, is racing to uncover the city and the vast platinum deposit believed to rest beneath it. Backed by mercenaries and guided by Abe's longtime rival, the unscrupulous archaeologist Dr. Lewis Halberd, the expedition will destroy anything-and anyone-in its path to claim Tokaloma's secrets.
Joined by Maya Yazzie, a brilliant young Native scholar with ties to the legends surrounding the city, Abe follows a trail of forgotten journals, buried ghost towns, ancient myths, and deadly clues stretching from Montana into the brutal mountain wilderness. But the closer they come to Tokaloma, the more they realize the stories were warnings. Explorers vanish. Strange visions haunt the valleys. And something ancient still lingers beneath the mountain.
Now, hunted by mercenaries and haunted by his own past, Abe must uncover the truth behind the Dreaming City before greed unleashes a catastrophe buried for centuries.
Because some lost cities were never meant to be found.