Hawaiian legends,
brought to life.
Award-winning middle grade fantasy and YA adventure from an author raised in Hawaiʻi. Meet the Menehune, face ancient war hounds, and play a free strategy game set in the islands.
Here is where the stories behind the stories are hidden.
Myth comes to life in Hawaiʻi.
Two ordinary kids are summoned to help protect the Hawaiian Islands. A complete, award-winning trilogy with Hawaiian words woven into every adventure, illustrated by Richard Eldridge.
Book 1Islanders
Two siblings wake up with magical powers and two Menehune guides, and learn they've been chosen to protect the islands.
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Book 2Mākaha
The villain's origin story: a mongoose banished from paradise who can't die, and the army of invasive creatures he builds.
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Book 3Hana
Mākaha returns with the ancient evil Moʻo Kuna, and every native creature must stand together to defend the valley.
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Assyria, 731 BC. The ultimate war machine has four paws and fangs.
Assyria has secretly cultivated a breakthrough in warfare: colossal dogs bred for battle. These massive, loyal canines possess the power to lay waste to armies and decimate cities, and the unsuspecting kingdom of Egypt is about to learn what they can do.
Musubi War: Battle for Musubi
A cozy, turn-based strategy game set in Hawaiʻi. Hire a crew of felt monstahs, take over villages and food trucks, collect trading cards, and battle for every last spam musubi.
Stories, legends and reading lists
Raised in Hawaiʻi. Writing his way back.
James grew up on Oʻahu and the Big Island, served six years as an Air Force medic, and now lives in Northwest Arkansas with his wife and five children. After surviving a near-fatal fight with COVID in 2021, he turned to writing, and to the islands he grew up exploring.