The Mound - Tapa blanda

A troubled teen believes she is about to be made queen of a fairy tale kingdom. And you know what? She may just be right . . . Levi Hogan, the new police chief in Bixbie, Massachusetts, is trying to stay off the booze and start a new life. Bixbie doesn't have much in the way of crime anyway, that is, until people start disappearing. While investigating, Hogan learns Bixbie is also home to "New England's Stonehenge," a mysterious mound thousands of years old. Though its purpose is unknown, it becomes clearer when Hogan's runaway daughter comes to town. Because what Hogan doesn't know is that Dani believes she is to become queen, and local teen Ian Sinclair is to become king, of a fairy kingdom populated by elves and pixies and helpful brownies. Before long, even Hogan starts to believe that maybe, just maybe, the Scots-Irish founders of Bixbie brought something along with them.

Brendan P. Myers is the author of several novels whose stories have appeared in a variety of anthologies.