Down a Lost Road

Every family has its secrets.

Sixteen-year-old Merelin Lindon always knew there was something different about her family. There were the ethereal glimmers that always showed up in photos of her dad. The way her mom always seemed to know exactly what she was thinking. The nagging feeling that she never quite belonged. To make it all worse, her father disappeared four years ago, and Merelin could never shake the feeling that everyone stopped looking for him much too quickly.

Then one day she receives a strange medallion that belonged to her missing father, and everything changes. She finds herself swept into another world¿a strange, beautiful world filled with powerful beings and an ancient civilization on the brink of annihilation, facing an enemy they have no weapons to fight. Some fear she will be their ruin. Some of them think she will save them all. And one of them makes her imagine she could.

With the help of the fascinating and sometimes infuriating Guardian named Yatol, she chooses to hazard everything, to suffer things she never imagined, in a foolhardy attempt to find her father and save his people.

But it may cost her more than she can imagine...