Vaya Dauphin’s novel, The Turquoise Tattoo, is a mystical tale set in North Island, New Zealand. Scarlet Flint’s mother is dead and she is left by her absentee father in the care of her Aunt Sarah. The young woman is telepathic and before her departure...

The Greenstone Garden is the second book in Vaya Dauphin's The Elementals of Aotearoa Trilogy. This is a young adult fantasy series which is set in New Zealand and is based on Maori mythology. Dauphin includes a detailed description of the characters she introduced in...