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...
Imagine being a rebellious ballerina, about to discover she's not fully human and about to go through quite a magical transformation
Olivia is 13 and from Aspatria, Cumbria and when her cousin visits from Athens, her life is turned into chaos and she doesn't need a distraction from a dance recital, school is the distraction to everything.
1 day Echo who is 15; is out swimming and loses the bangle on her wrist that keeps her fully human, within seconds Echo has lost her legs grown a tail and starts to unleash very out of control dark magic and this change will happen every time she gets even a drip of liquid onto her skin.
Ballerina Olivia takes longer to know what she really is but it all comes to light when she wakes up 1 morning and gets a tingling in her back and before long some beautiful wings start to grow and even though her life has changed she still wants to be a ballerina and when she's an adult she'll be at Juilliard and prove to her family she never needed academics to fall back on.
This is just the start of the chaos as both have to handle school without being considered as freaks, not like the diva ballerina considers needing education when there's dance but she must keep up with her popularity and even though her life has changed she still wants to be a ballerina and when she's an adult she'll be at Juilliard and prove to her family she never needed academics to fall back on.