Book I in the Izoven Series ___________________________ When 21-year-old Emery Wright's therapist refuses to let her retake the police psych exam, she must face her past and visit her old family home in Bellenau-a town famous for its mystery and secrets. Her investigation leads her to unearth an old family mystery, her duty to protect a gateway to Izoven: The Land of the Eternal. If that wasn't enough, a mysterious boy is hellbent on obtaining the gateway to avenge his father, even if it means destroying Emery in the process. Will Emery be able to protect the key and destroy the prodigal son? Or will her journey lead her down a path of self-destruction?

- a poetic novel - Valentina Voss-Fields was the quiet kind of girl who lived in a magical island known by the name of Earlpond. It was an land only the chosen could find, with a purpose that they only remembered when their minds pierced through the veil that was cast upon it by Gaia's wish. She was never the type of girl to believe that something special was waiting for her, but it did. And it grew tired of waiting. And he grew tired waiting for her. Magic and wonder occurred all around her throughout the seventeen years of her life, and she could never make any sense of it, until now - when one day she became lost and disoriented in a place she knew she should never have been. When the unfamiliar arms of comfort embraced her and the confusion she had felt all her life vanished within moments. Join her in her tale through loss, self-worth, love and the human experience. Relearn the magic which not only exists in her world, but your own; it is time for you too, to journey through the veil.

Kelsey Livingston is your average 21-year-old girl. She is a recent college graduate, loves her family, wants to make a life with her first serious boyfriend work, and is desperately trying to figure out who she is. While trying to balance who she is with who she wants to be, the allure of a traveling private company lifestyle begins to take hold. But can Kelsey live with the double standards and difficulties of being a young woman in this working world? Will she lose her job, her boyfriend, her friendships...or everything? Only she can decide.