Living In Secret / The Skin of Water / Esoterica

San Francisco, California is a mighty magical, unconventional town. Join author Cristina Salat in this 3-part adventure as she welcomes characters from LIVING IN SECRET, THE SKIN OF WATER/DEFENDING THE DREAMCATCHERS plus ESOTERICA in a 'Gathering The Dreamcatchers' companion trilogy for today's young adults and anyone who cares about them. This 3-novel combo edition begins with LIVING IN SECRET, a novel Publisher's Weekly termed "courageous, thought-provoking" with Amelia Monet escaping from the parent who has custody to begin a new life and identity in San Francisco with her other family; made up of two moms. Meanwhile -- in a different part of the city that might as well be an entirely different planet -- in THE SKIN OF WATER: DEFENDING THE DREAMCATCHERS, Lisel Martinez, a first nation 16-year-old, leaves the pueblos of New Mexico for a new life in California too. But is there a way for a girl on her own to stay safe in a city that seems anything but...? Empowerment is just a word...until you live it. And lastly, in ESOTERICA, the third novel of this trilogy, we rejoin characters from the first two as Amelia -- older now and done putting up with safety issues of her own -- decides to take matters into her own hands. Her dad is a criminal after all, and criminals are supposed to be in jail, aren't they? It's high time for a lot of things about this world to change.