Phillipa Bowers

The Wise Woman's Tale — (2007) Young adult. Available for download at Audible.com Publisher: Kate Barnes is 14 years old when she first experiences the strange gifts she has inherited from her grandmother's side of the family. She has a vivid waking dream, a memory of an earlier life centuries before when she was murdered by an angry mob who believed her to be a witch. Her grandmother decides the time is right to reveal to Kate some family secrets, including the ancient cave that houses the family tomb. Just as Kate is learning to develop her second sight, her education with her grandmother is interrupted when her father insists she return home. He is determined that Kate forget her grandmother's teachings and get a job in order to help support their growing family. But nothing will keep Kate from her destiny: to take her grandmother's place as local wise woman and guardian of the mysterious cave.

The Secrets of the Cave — (2008) Young adult. Available for download at Audible.com Publisher: Betty Barnes has been raised by her older sister, Kate, in a small country village, but Betty dreams of the bright lights of Hollywood and of becoming a movie star. Daydreaming is one way to escape the realities of school life where she is cruelly bullied due to her sister, who is living in sin with a married man and is rumored to have used her healing skills to help local girls. Like her sister Betty has also inherited psychic and healing gifts from her forebears, but she decides that no one — not even her sister — understands her. She runs away to the big city to pursue a glittering acting career, but instead must reinvent herself as Foxy, a stripper in a gentleman's club. As she soon realizes, however, Betty cannot run away from her magic forever.