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An ancient book, a seventeen-year-old girl and an exotic boy from a supernatural world hold the key to freedom for a long-oppressed race, but that freedom could come at the cost of the human world.

Seventeen-year-old Kalista is suffering from a broken heart, so when her playwright father proposes they move their lives from New York to New Mexico because he is in need of inspiration Kalista is 100% on-board with him. New Mexico proves to be the perfect balm for her wounds and she is just starting to feel some of her old spunk when Tristan Winfield comes into her life and pulls all of her barriers down. Kalista is captivated by Tristan's unusual silver eyes and feels an inexplicable connection to him, which begins to manifest itself in her dreams with bizarre images of a waterfall and an orb.

While searching for an explanation for her troubling dreams, Kalista discovers an ancient book which holds the secrets of a supernatural race of creatures. But when Killings hit town, she realizes her finding has come at a high price. She's in the middle of a power struggle now, a struggle that seems to be linked to the secret wrapped within the pages of that book. A secret she and Tristan are part of...



The Ylem Trilogy

"Wonderful, isn't it?" Tristan murmured.


I turned to look at him, awed. "Otherworldly." He smiled, staring at the white enchanted desert. "It's like the outside world doesn't exist." I sighed, wishing this feeling could last forever. "What's the name of this place?"


"White Sands," he said. "We're in the Tularosa Basin, which is actually larger than Delaware and a couple of Rhode Islands."


"Wow," I uttered and bent down to touch the sand. "Why is it like this?" I watched the glittering sand falling from my hand like a cascade of star dust. It felt like powder seeping through my fingers.


He bent down in front of me. "The Tularosa Basin contains the largest gypsum deposit on earth. The mineral erodes from the mountains and settles here to form crystals. Then these gypsum deposits are blown by the wind to form these white sand dunes." He touched the powdery sand.


Chapter 35: White Sands, Part 2