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Ashleen O'Gaea

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Contact: www.ashleenogaea.com
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Current Residence: Gresham, Oregon

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Ashleen O'Gaea

Published Author

As of 13 June '26, I don't have *all* my books listed - but I'm working on it. Feel free to visit my website if you can't wait to see them here.

 

And - if you sign up for my newsletter from the website, you'll get a free backstory about one of the Echo Crossing characters

 

I was born in the Pacific Northwest, lived 50 years in Arizona ... and then moved home! Husband-man and I live in Gresham, Oregon now. (Often mistaken for a suburb of Portland, Gresham is the fourth largest city in the state!) We miss our friends, but not the weather!

 

I've written quite a few novels, ranging from contemporary to fantasy, and including a set of stories for children and a couple of books for middle-schoolers. My nonfiction work ranges from a variety of books about Wicca - because I'm a fully ordained Wiccan priestess (ret.) - to one about West Highland White Terriers! And of course I've always got more stories and books in the pipeline.

 

Husband-man and I are finding new places to camp here in the PNW, but we've retired from setting up a tent for our Socttish clan (MacCallum-Malcolm)at Celtic Festivals. We and the dogs miss live bagpipes, but the sound of surf at the beach almost makes up for not hearing them as often.

 

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PUBLICATIONS

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In the Shadows of Adventure

No idea if the URL is right, but "Shadows" is available on Amazon as a paperback or ebook. If you're at all curious about the religion of Wicca, this is a comprehensive look at one Tradition (denomination) that lets you know not only how Wiccans practice, but why, and what differentiates one Trad from another. It's illustrated - and if you're from Arizona, you might recognize a few of our ritual settings!

 

 

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Echo Crossing: Book Two: Crossing Unbound

Yes, there's a Book One: Echo Bound, in which you'll meet Nick Hunter. He's mightily surprised to find that his animal rescue work involves creatures not only wounded wildlife, hoarded pets, and lost dogs and cats, but also creatures not from this realm. In fact, he faces lots of surprises. There's an unexpected inheritance, the discovery that his girlfriend is fae, and his roommate is an elven king ... not to mention that an ancient folk-monster has it in for him.

 

And in Book Two, he has to save *two* realms from the monster, whose gotten bigger and meaner and is destroying whole villages in the fae realm.

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The Castle Ghosts (The Seelie Ames Novels)

Retired Wiccan priestess Seelie Ames lives full-time in a fifth-wheel trailer she named the Castle - so why is she surprised that her castle is haunted? Lady Cecelya deHulle is a distant ancestor, in need of a Catholic priest to help her move on. Seelie recruits Father Michael Carmichael, who's never taken a ghost's confession before.

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The Old Mine Ghosts: a Seelie Ames novel

Retired Wiccan priestess Seelie Ames and her new pal, Father Michael Carmichael, work together again to solve a 100-year-old murder, restore a fortune, save a marriage, and fix the church roof.

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The MacCollum Charisma

The MacCollums of Kilwestra are a charming Scottish clan, but their charisma is an ancient magical artifact that requires careful handling. Since it was created from one woman's agony over the New Berwick witch trials in the 1590s, at least five other daughters of the line have died of its curse. Not even four centuries of iniquity, misunderstanding, and disdain could drain its energy. It would take two 21st-century witches, one on either side of the charisma's ancestral power, to do that.

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Family Wicca, Revised and Expanded Edition

Most people raise their children to the family's religion, but until Family Wicca was published, most Wiccans didn't. Coming from harsh experience, Wiccans didn't want to "force" their faith on their kids. O'Gaea showed them how to include children in a religion that until the early 1990s had only been for grown-ups.

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Raising Witches Teaching the Wiccan Faith to Children

For Pagan groups who want to offer a Sun Day School for their members' children, Raising Witches offers a comprehensive curriculum for kids from infancy to young adulthood. For more formal instruction than around the kitchen table, these lessons translate well from Wicca to other Pagan and Heathen faiths.

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Celebrating the Seasons of Life: Beltane to Mabon
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Celebrating the Seasons of Life: Samhain to Ostara
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Mere Mortals' Magic

For most of us, King Arthur's story ended when, mortally wounded, he was ferried back to Avalon. But for three Americans on vacation in New Orleans, the story wasn't over. They're mysteriously transported to Ancennia, a nearby dimension that includes Avalon, the Oldeven Core, and the mist-hidden Beyond, and it's up to them to thwart the machinations of Arthur's regicidal son, who even centuries later means to claim his father's throne by murderous magic.

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Abracadabra for Everyone

You don't have to be a witch to work magic!

Abracadabra for Everyone is full of simple spells that make sense and make all our lives easier and more fun!

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In the Service of Life: A Wiccan Perspective on Death

Death will always be sad, but it doesn't ever have to be scary again. Death is a step in the sacred spiral dance, and the Wiccan way of looking at this transition is gentle and affirmative.

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The Green Boy

Coven leader Bliss Harper has some important rituals coming up, so when she rescues a young man stranded in the desert near her family's ranchito in southestern Arizona, she hires him as a handyman. He's not comfortable with Bliss' religion of Wicca, and she and her late mother Nyssa's ghost soon find out why. Young Jody was raised by his aunt and uncle who believe that Nyssa murdered Jody's mother with her magic. It would be a lot easier to cope with Jody's "do not suffer a witch to live" attitude if Bliss' daughter Linnie wasn't trapped with him when a sudden storm breaks as Linnie's on her way home from school.

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The Flower Bride

Wiccan priestess Bliss Harper's Wicca 101 class introduces her to a student who tries some out-of-bounds magic. Luckily, the results are more hilarious than hazardous.

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Maiden, Vampire, Crone

Bliss' daughter Linnie has a classmate, Duane, who thinks he wants to be a vampire. Fair enough, with the Twilight series making the rounds at Linnie's middle school. Not fair at all when Duane decides that he can become a vampire if he drinks Linnie's "witch blood." It takes Linnie's grandmother's ghost and her boyfriend, a retired vampire, to save Linnie when Duane kidnaps her.

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The Broken Oath

When they are initiated, many Wiccans take an oath, and acknowledge that their altar tools will turn against them if they break it. When one of Bliss' initiators, Lois, visits unexpectedly, Bliss and Nyssa, her late mother's ghost, discover that Lois has broken her oath. The consequences may endanger Bliss' daughter Linnie, and that's when Bliss decides to intervene.

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The Jollyfoot's Journey: Books One and Two

Half-Human, half-Canicene Brynn Rhodry is about to complete a manditory 10-year space journey to be eligible to hear her father's Will. She hires a fully Human co-pilot, Lafe Reardon, for the last leg of her trek. After they survive the Reading of the Will - it wasn't a sure thing - they're off to look for Lafe's long-lost brother. They don't know whether he's still alive - and they sure don't expect to get tangled up in a smuggling ring.

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The Jollyfoot's Journey: Books Three and Four

Brynn Rhodry and Lafe Reardon have decided to visit the Human homeworld, accessible through a portal in the Oldeven Core. Before they transport, they're reunited with Brynn's mother and with the Jollyfoot's once holographic crew ... and they're delayed by a former enemy's plot against Oldeven.

 

When they finally make it to 21st-century Earth so Lafe can explore his Human ancestry, they find out that one of his old enemies has hired an assassin who's followed Brynn and Lafe through the dimensional portal. Unfortunately, she's lost her memory; Brynn and Lafe have to rescue her from the "men in black."

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Fiona's Girl Friday

Thirteen-year-old Mary Friday has always wanted a West Highland White Terrier.

When she finally gets the dog of her dreams, she finds out that her puppy, Fiona, has a life-threatening disease.

 

(Spoiler alert: the dog doesn't die.)

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