14 year old Faylinn and 8 year old Nixie Pebble live in an orphanage. Its not exactly a good life for them. They're teased for the marks on their arms and have no memories of their parents, at all. Their only ally is Damien Topaz, Faylinn's boyfriend. One day, Fay and Nixie decide they've had enough of the orphan life, and they run away, into the woods. Damien follows them, and they all fall into a portal. Damien lands in the Dark Realm, an eerie, bone-chilling place with evil spiders, werewolves, dark angels, dark fairies, vampires, werewolves, dragons, demons, sirens, and other evil creatures. Faylinn and Nixie end up in the Mysticals across the High Mountains, where everything is beautiful and natural, covered in thick forests and large lake, where light fairies, mermaids, elves, sorceresses, and gnomes live. There's an oncoming war, and Damien, a half dark angel and half vampire, and Faylinn and Nixie, half fairie and half mermaid, are the only hopes to help their own heritage win.
"For All That It Brightens, Love Casts Dark Shadows."
After destroying a deadly curse that rotted Valkri and kept all of the world in hiding for forty years, Nadia a fae and creator of Valkri, is sent to live in Dragons Mountain away from Court. In order to strike an alliance of peace between both surviving lands the Dragon Lord and Nadia must coincide.
Danger hasn't been avoided but only increased, Nadia will always have a target on her back and even love cant protect her from betrayal.
The deadliest war is coming and death is rising from the grave. The only way to win is to band together against a cursed evil that will test Valkri and its peoples heart.
*Second book in the Valkri Trilogy, you do not need to read the first in order to read the second* first book is called "picking petals."