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Her father has become withdrawn following her mother's disappearance and there is little Shay can do to help.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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Shay looked down at the fields below. She could see green as far as the eye could see. The road they had traveled looked like little more than a trail now. 


She had slept little the night before, but had finally succumbed to her exhaustion and slept under a tree beside the road. She had been wakened by the soldiers and after a quick breakfast, they had continued their journey. 


They had reached the foot of the Ischlo mountains during the day and after a short break had begun their climb making as good time as they possibly could. 


Despite making good time, none of them knew the terrain and they knew that with night approaching, they should find a place to stop for the evening. 


Chapter 43