Sometimes the monsters at home are more terrifying than the ones from your childhood stories. Isolated in a desert town, Anita Lucero has grown up with nowhere to run and nobody to turn to when things got ugly at home. That is, until she started looking in places that shouldn't exist. Spurred into drastic action, she lands herself in an extraordinary new world described simply as "the Vale" by its residents. Finding herself surrounded by people and places both eerily familiar and breathtakingly alien, Anita launches into an adventure of fantastic discovery and grim revelation that will lead her to freedom at a price she may not be willing to pay. This is an original story still in the early stages of being written. While not explicit, it does involve mature themes such as domestic abuse, child abuse, and murder. Please read with caution if these are difficult topics for you. Also, as implied by the cover, here there be spiders.