Twelve-year-old Emmiline Hawthorne doesn't believe in magic. That is, until her diaries are stolen, her eight-year-old brother is kidnapped, her father disappears into the night and a real-life Shadowman pays a visit to her bedroom--all in one night! Turns out the make-believe adventures she played with her father as a child weren't simply games; he was training his Sorceress daughter in the art of magic! And now, Emmy must travel to a parallel world to take on the evil Empress Dingledork in a magical duel to the death. Or her mother will die... Come along with Emmy as she magically travels through the portal leading to the parallel world of Antecaelum--a place she'd thought only existed within her imagination. A mirror realm teeming with Wild West Weed people, vegetarian vultures, mysterious Mer-folk, main-sized bunnies with esp., shirtless desert nomads, para-trooper pixies, pirate groundhogoblins and more! The question is, how does she know which are friends and which are foes? But more importantly, can she defeat the murderous ruler of the Shadowed Realm before the portal closes and the magic spell protecting the Blighted Lands comes to an end. Because, if she can't...