The Empowered Empath
Turn Sensitivity into Strength
Unlock the power of your empathy. A practical, grounded guide for the deeply-feeling among us.
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Kypex Media presents
A Balance of Shadows
A Small-Town Fantasy Romance
Some doors only open for a heart freely given.
A slow-burn, low-spice fantasy romance.
About the Book
A story that walks the tree line
A grieving nurse. A loyal dog. A glowing dragonfly that should not exist.
Rowan Parker has spent two years outrunning the guilt of her grandmother's death. By day she holds strangers' lives steady in the emergency room of her small mountain town. By night she walks the forest trails above Tamarack with Cedar, the dog who knows her heart better than anyone.
Then a blue-glowing dragonfly leads her to a standing stone that wakes at her touch, and to Ethan Hayes, a field ecologist chasing impossible data, and to the truth her grandmother guarded for fifty years: the quiet places of the world are dying, and someone is taking what they hold.
Rooted in Tamarack and ranging far beyond it, the road gathers a family around her: a diver who counts her way across every dangerous crossing, a quiet carver whose whole heart fits in the smallest gestures, a botanist with a secret that could break them all. Together they race a grieving billionaire to the golden heart of the world, where the price of saving everything is one heart, freely given, and love must decide exactly what it is willing to pay.
A Balance of Shadows is a slow-burn, low-spice, small-town fantasy romance for readers who love found family, loyal dogs, ancient magic, and healing after grief. Standalone, with a happy ending.
- Three slow-burn love stories
- Found family
- Closed-door romance
- Two very good dogs
- Standalone with a happy ending
Content note: includes peril to a beloved dog. It is not a dead-dog story.
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Gigi's Farm Mysteries
Book One: The Day the Honey Went Missing · Ages 4–8
When Gigi's prized honey jar vanishes on the very day of the big Harvest Picnic, her five grandkids are on the case. A warm, funny read-aloud mystery for ages 4 to 8, with clues to spot, questions to answer out loud, and a farm full of unforgettable animals. Coming soon from Kypex Media.
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Ron W. Mason
Ron W. Mason writes stories about ordinary people who find the extraordinary hiding at the edge of their own backyards: hidden doors in familiar woods, small towns with long memories, and the families we build when the world asks more of us than we can carry alone.
That one idea runs through every shelf he writes for. In A Balance of Shadows, it becomes a slow-burn fantasy romance about grief, courage, and a forest that has been keeping a family's name for fifty years. In Gigi's Farm Mysteries, his mystery series for young readers, it becomes a missing jar of honey, five determined grandkids, and a farm full of suspects. And in The Empowered Empath: Turn Sensitivity into Strength, it sets the story aside and speaks plainly, as a guide for people who feel the world more deeply than most. Different shelves, same door: all of his books are for anyone who has ever stood at the tree line at dusk and felt certain that something on the other side was listening.
A professional writer by trade and a storyteller by nature, he writes the kind of stories he wants more of in the world: truthful ones, felt all the way through, finished when they're ready. He is also a lifelong dog lover, a fact his readers tend to figure out by chapter three.
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