Shay's mother has disappeared. 

Her father has become withdrawn following her mother's disappearance and there is little Shay can do to help. 

Then, one night, Shay saves her father from a strange assailant in his study and is carried to another world with her father where the truth about her mother is revealed. 

Discovering that her mother is apparently not the person Shay has admired all her life, leads Shay to question her own values which she has so proudly built on the image of the perfect marriage which her parents displayed to her as a child. As Shay comes to terms with her parent’s betrayal, she herself betrays the one person who has trusted her most in this strange kingdom. 

While she loathes her new behavior she seems unable to stop, since betraying one person means protecting another. While Shay struggles with her own question of values, Shay's life and the world itself begin to collapse around her. 

But life continues and the evil that rises seeks the greatest treasure of all. A power to rule all worlds. For evil does not mourn. And evil has no conscience. And Shay holds a key to access another world which the evil desperately desires.....

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Teams of trackers moved through the portal, some of them making signs for protection against sorcery as they did so. 


When they landed on the other side of the portal they moved to the side quickly and grouped together as instructed. They were not seen by Algwad’s army in the valley below. 


Night was coming and it would be even easier to cross through the portal without being seen. Trackers made their way quietly descending the mountain and circling the camp to the exit point where the army would leave the valley and march to Osim. 


The trackers arrived at the road exiting the valley and studied what they saw. There was no evidence that any significant numbers of people had left the valley already. It was clear though that a small group of people had left. 


The trackers circled back up the mountain and reported to their commander that a small group of people had left the valley making their way to Osim. 


Chapter 38