Leena Pekkalainen

ALLi Author Member

Location: Europe

Genres: Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Historical Fiction, Young Adult (YA)

I learned to read on my own before I went to school and read anything I could get my hands on. I began writing stories almost immediately as well.

As an adult I made good on my dream of learning about ancient Egypt and received my Certificate in Egyptology at the University of Manchester in 2012, followed by the Diploma in Egyptology in 2014.

I am also an artist - previously I painted mostly animals, especially horses, but lately ancient Egyptian subjects.

I have now written my first novel, genre being young adult, there is a mythological side to it and yes - part of it happens in ancient Egypt. Doing the final edits now, and after all the work is done, it will be time to publish it.

And my favorite pastime? Do you need to ask...? Reading and writing, of course.

Leena Pekkalainen's books

Nephilim Quest 1: Shadowhunter

Dana’s world falls apart. Her best friend Kitty dies in a strange car accident and then a nightmarish shadow appears to hunt her. She has to flee with her grandma, who turns out to be something quite unexpected – a Huntress of Shadows. The truth about her ancestry is a hard thing to accept – Dana was deliberately created to find something that should stay hidden, or it might threaten the world as Dana knows it. Her existence is tied to the myth of the Nephilim, the descendants of angels, and her creator commands the forces of chaos and darkness, the source of all horror myths of humankind. Dana learns there is a world of terrifying shadows, afterlife, dreams and time travel surrounding the physical world, hidden behind a thin veil – and there are ways to enter it. Dana has no option – nightmarish creatures from ancient myths hunt her and the hunt can only end in either Dana and everyone she loves being captured and turned dark, or Dana finding what she was created to find. Her hunters have skills no ordinary human can escape – but Dana is not an ordinary human. Nor is Daniel, the leader of a hidden Center fighting the darkness. Together with a chosen team they could travel the Unseen Worlds, into the past, following a clue written down in ancient Egypt, and walk the Trail of Angels to find the hidden mystery before the dark creatures do. Dana must prepare for a long search in another time and place, while both she and Daniel are wanted and hunted by the darkness. At stake is her love, and the destiny of the human kind. But can they make it with the shadows closing down on them?

Nephilim Quest 2: Moon Daughter

Having accidentally fallen 3300 years back in time to ancient Egypt Merit tries to find a way to return to the future and stumbles on one of human kind’s oldest mysteries – but deadly enemies are willing to do anything to find it first. Dana and her Time Walker team are after the same secret - to find the abode of the Watchers, the forefathers of the winged Nephilim. They barely escaped the shadow attack on the Time Walker Centre and are now in ancient Egypt, but their connection to the future is lost. With no knowledge what has happened to their loved ones they decide to continue their search. What they do not know is that they have been followed from the future by their worst enemy. No longer faithful to his old Masters he is determined to catch Dana for his own purposes. Merit’s daughter Shuet stays in the shadows and grows into her hidden powers in the safety of the royal court of the pharaoh Amenhotep III and his Great Royal Wife Tiye. Shuet’s own life is threatened by an old enemy from her childhood, who patiently weaves his web around her. As the timelines weave into each other, will Merit find a way back to the future? Can Shuet be saved from her old enemy? Will Dana escape the mightiest hunter of the dark Nephilim ? Will she ever see Daniel again? Moon Daughter is the second book in Leena Maria’s fantasy series that weaves time travel and ancient human mythology together. If you love ancient Egypt, the legends of the Nephilim, vampires and dark shadows around us, you’ll love the latest book in the Nephilim Quest-series. Buy the Moon Daughter to continue your discovery of the hidden secrets of ancient Egypt and the descendants of angels and humans, the Nephilim.

Space Witches 1: The Book of Witches

Nina thought she was just an ordinary teenager until the morning she woke up dead. She found herself in the afterlife, in the Halfway House of those souls who had kicked the bucket prematurely. She needs the help of two bored dead teenagers, an ancient angel and a demon called George to get back to the land of the living, but she is not safe from whoever tried to snatch her body. An ancient Egyptian curse is involved - in the form of a cursed soul - as are good and bad witches and spell books. And what does winning the lottery have to do with anything? All this happening on the plates in space the human kind managed to build before the asteroid hit the earth. A fast moving, humorous story. Not for the serious reader.

Nephilim Quest Prequel: Angel

Over two hundred years before Nephilim Quest 1 / Shadowhunter, the roots of the story are planted. A little girl missing her mother, in the palace of the mightiest of the dark Nephilim, hoping for an escape... This books is not for sale, only readers who have subscribed to my mailing list at www.leenasbooks.com will get it.

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