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''KOORIIME-pronounced koh-oh-ree-may- is a book series written by author L.A. Jones. The first two novels in the five book series: Kooriime, and Kooriime-Elves in the City are expected to be released in June of 2013. Website: www.kooriime.com. Kooriime (KOH-OH-REE-MAY) is a dark urban romance series about the journey of nine Elves and a New Yorker finding happiness after the Elves overcome the aftermath of being stolen from their hidden island paradise. The Elves help each other battle the grief of losing their loved ones while learning how to survive life in New York City. The story is segmented into five separate, but inter-related, love stories revolving around two heterosexual and three homosexual couples. The series of episodes and events occurring around the characters is what links the separate stories.

Synopsis:

Members of a beauteous super race of humans inhabiting a flourishing paradise full of extremities are abducted by seedy scientists from all over the world; thrusting their once splendid existence into turmoil and forcing them to discover how big this world truly is. This paradise is called Kooriime (Koh-oh-ree-may) and their inhabitants call themselves Elves.

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 newly instated branch of the Elven military, called the Traveling Army, who devotes their lives to rescuing their nabbed kinsfolk. 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 eventually finds 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 after watching his father being gunned down. His once wonderful life begins to disintegrate before his very eyes as one by one the remains of his small family die off. Azurelli makes friends in captivity that gradually helps him overcome his bereavement once rescued by the trusty Traveling Army. Azurelli, along with the other Elves are brought to a hideout in the heart of Manhattan because their way home is barred by a clandestine war between the Traveling Army and several of the world’s armed forces. Once adjusted to a new life in what can be seen as a parallel world to him, Azurelli falls in love with a native New Yorker named Airina who he meets at his new job in the Garment District which brings about a struggle within. Should he defy his race by mating with an exotic foreign woman or should he stifle his feelings and stick to what he knows and what is expected of him?

Airina Maria Bombedas begins her career in New York City’s fashion industry after graduating with a degree in fashion design from the Fashion Institute of Technology. She overcomes disappointment in her mundane work life assisting a designer for a moderately priced clothing company when she becomes captivated by the new Elven sample hand named Azurelli. Airina is swept off of her feet as Azurelli introduces her to the mystical and glamorous world of the Elves and their secret village hidden in Manhattan. She learns to shed her urban cynicism and opens her heart to the possibility of true love but is rudely awaken from her fantasy by the potentiality of Azurelli returning to his homeland.

Meilynn Laleiwelihwyn, who is one of his parent’s six children, is stolen by scientists along with the majority of his immediate family and is locked up in a science lab in Antarctica where he and the other captives are frightened about being dissected. He befriends a young man his age named Azurelli Ammamiilliia in captivity who he goes on to take under his wing after Azure loses his family. Meilynn has a twin brother and suffers from middle child syndrome; he strives to stand apart from his other brothers who he feels are favored above him. Once rescued from captivity, Meilynn meets a beautiful yet demanding Elven woman named Selindah who he hopes to uphold the Elven traditions of matrimony with. When it comes time to leave New York for home in Kooriime, Meilynn forsakes his mother and sisters and harbors the guilt of choosing to stay and adapt to American life with Selindah and his brothers.

Sayten Laleiwelihwyn is the eldest of his brothers and struggles with the conflicting desires of wanting to fill his deceased father’s shoes, as well as following his own path. To his dismay, Sayten is eventually chosen by the scientists for experimentation and is dissected alive in front of his family who watches helplessly. He is rescued by a flaming haired doctor-in-training named Fierohaan who does his best to put Sayten back together and keep him alive until help arrives in the form of the Elven Traveling Army. Sayten becomes instantly smitten with his heterosexual savior and determinedly seduces him. He clumsily hides his relationship from his family resulting in explosive consequences, which culminates in his decision of choosing to stay in New York with Fiero, and learns to adapt to a new life.

Fierohaan Orrebbiore was a healer-in-training obediently collecting remedial substances from the beach for his mentor when he was abducted by scientists and shipped to Antarctica where his life truly begins. Through acts of courage and bravery, he tries his best to save the lives of his co-captives and finds love in the most unlikely person. He becomes ridden with guilt surrounding his love affair, and refuses to pursue his career in healing after taking a few lives, until coaxed back into it by a new mentor. Fiero cowardly surrenders his chances of returning home to remain in Manhattan with his lover Sayten where their relationship is more widely accepted.

Rockliiastan Avalanche was separated from his family in a laboratory prison in Greenland, but is reunited with what’s left of them on the great ship of the Traveling Army. Rocklii learns of the dangers of the foreign metropolis the hard way and proves that there is nothing he wouldn’t do for the people he loves, even if it costs him his own peace of mind. He sells his body to feed his family while desperately clinging to his own restless heart, mind, and soul. Defiled, he fears that no one in this world could ever love him until he wins the heart of the stoic and mysterious orphan Dion.

Dionollah, who only knows a life of solitude and strife in the rigorous Mithrinos Mountains, is thrust into the company of his privileged kinsfolk once escaping from captivity and imprisonment in Iceland. He must not only learn to adapt to life in New York City, but he must learn the ways of his people or be outcast. Dion’s exceptional ability to read the minds of everyone around him hinders his desire to attach himself to his own heritage, until he meets the compassionate Rockliiastan who pursues his heart and helps him find his place in New York’s Elven society.

All seemed well once the Elves were integrated into American life, until the Elder Elf Imrahill and his anagogic army arrives from their far away homeland to return every Elven person to their rightful home.