What do you do when you're stranded in a world you know nothing about? How do you win a game where the odds are stacked against you? Emberlynn doesn't see herself as anything other than ordinary and unimportant. Her goals in live rely on her getting a good education and getting a good job, but things get derailed when weird circumstances begin to happen just months before her seventeenth birthday- where she ends up stranded in a world that is nothing like her own. The land is gorgeous. The plants are deadly, and a weird prophecy that claims Emberlynn is the missing "key" to their salvation. With strange creatures out to get her, and rumors about another girl, Emberlynn finds herself stuck on a journey by people she is supposed to trust, but could easily be leading her astray. Will Emberlynn's wits be enough to get her out of this circumstance? Will she find herself fulfill the prophecy that the citizens claim is about her? Most importantly will she find a way to escape that nightmare with her life, and return to the world that she knows? *Note by the author* #1 in fantasy novels [03/6/2020] Won second place in the Black Tie Awards(Fantasy) Is being reviewed by Ruvineet ** This book is the rough draft and will be thoroughly edited and changed over the next few months. Thank you for those that chose to read it or took a slight interest in it.

Our eyes meet for the first time since I've had him trapped here. The black slits dilate for a moment, and the human shows through. For half a second, we are two children-kidnapped from our home and morphed into something so inhuman that our creators themselves can't stand to look at us. In that blink, every mistake I've ever made rushes back to me, and I wonder how he ended up here as well. How old is he? Does he have a name, or has he forgotten that like so many others of our kind? More importantly, is he as terrified as I am right now? Does the threat of instantaneous death make him forget that we are both one-third human, like it does to me? Somewhere, deep under the muscle and fur and claws and starvation and nightmares, we are still human. Aren't we? ~~~~~ Sixteen-year-old Cani is a Dreck-- a genetically engineered mixture of human and animal. While constantly battling to maintain her fragile humanity, she's pitted against her own kind over and over in The Arena. Loss means death, but winning means more training and mistreatment. Escape isn't even an option. Where would she go? When a new Dreck trader shows up at The Estate, offering Cani and her best friend Fell a new opportunity, the sun seems to be shining down on them for once. Daylight never lasts forever, though, and even in the beauty of night, there are dangers. Cani can't escape the Arena. No one can.

When all was well and good. A journey that seemed promising and long-lasting , suddendly turns upside down in a single night. A series of mysteries unravel, including crazy stupid love, broken promises, unknown secrets burried deep within, that puts them in a place to make tough decisions, heartbreaking choices. To let go and move ahead. Continue reading to find out what life has in store for our loved ones.

One young woman leaves New York City and the glow of civilization to make her own way in a man's profession. She finds that the World can be a pretty crazy place. Set before, during and after the fateful Blackwater Massacre. *Contains mature themes.*