(Author Hints: 16 and older for this book, for some sensuality, language, and horror themes)
Time moves slowly if you've nothing to really live for, if someone you loved has gone. For Lina, minutes and hours etched out as sedentarily as mud, propelling her through each day as if her life were a cruel joke, a reminder that while she still had her loving mother, she was invariably alone. With lingering doubts as to the validity of the stories of her father's un-timely death, and a greater need to re-invent herself in order to quell the emptiness in her soul, Lina takes the less traveled road. Only she doesn't realize it will be paved with imminent danger. In the heart of the Cumbrian Mountains of England's Lake District, Lina finds much more than she'd ever bargained for: the missing pieces to her father's disappearance, the truth of her birth and its purpose, as well as discovering a whole other world, a secret society that she will herself soon be responsible for.
Can she let go of her old life, in order to embrace the new one before her? Will she be able to submit to a millennia old prophecy, one that was carved out before she'd ever taken a breath?And if she's able to do so, will she then be able to find balance between herself, her love, and those she's sworn to protect?
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