Kooriime (Koh-Oh-Ree-May) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781458209269)

Kooriime--pronounced koh-oh-ree-may--is a hidden island paradise tucked away from the rest of the world. It serves as a home to the Elves, a beautiful super race living a peaceful existence, unaware that a group of seedy international scientists are preparing to throw their world into turmoil.

Ris Evangalarya, who was stolen from Kooriime at a very young age, spends the better part of his childhood as a lab experiment in Hungary. He is rescued by a branch of the Elven military, called the Traveling Army. Ris falls in love with his savior Adriaan who he is separated from, and then reunited with in his adulthood while living in New York City. Ris, having suffered tremendously during his adolescence, battles with his own inner turmoil as he slowly puts together the broken pieces of his life, and hopes to eventually find solace in his savior.

Azurelli Ammamiilliia's life in paradise was perfect until one fateful day when he was abducted from the beach, along with his mother and sister, by an invading mob of scientists. He spends his time in a prison in Antarctica struggling to keep his mother and sister from starving to death, and befriends Meilynn--a young Elven man in pursuit of a respectable Elven marriage, and his brother Sayten who is eventually chosen by the scientists for experimentation and is dissected alive in front of his family who watches helplessly. Also in the same cell is Fierohaan Orrebbiore who, through acts of courage and bravery, tries his best to save the lives of his co-captives, and finds love in the most unlikely person.

After being separated from his family and placed in a laboratory prison in Greenland, Rockliiastan Avalanche is reunited with what's left of them on the great ship of the Traveling Army. Once brought to a hideaway in New York, he learns of the dangers of the foreign metropolis the hard way and sells his body to feed his family, proving that there is nothing he wouldn't do for the people he loves.
Dionollah, an orphan neglected by society, finds himself in an Icelandic laboratory after attempting to fight off masked scientists whose submarine washed up on a beach. Once his consciousness is regained, he teams up with a dangerous and eccentric thief to plot their escape from the lab.

In this fantasy tale, the Elves embark on a journey filled with dreams, danger, love, and hope for a new future.