Impossible Flowers

After forgetting to wear her shoes to school one day, flowers started to grow from the strangest places imaginable... Jessica Marshal is finally presented with evidence of what she really is: a descendant of a long extinct, magical race. Jessica is then brought to a new world; a place called The Guilds. It is here that the human(ish) ancestors of goblins, trolls, mermaids, and elves develop their races' magical abilities. While under the pressures of training and trying to maintain her human life, Jessica learns of her mother's ambiguous past and the details of her murder, then starts out on an epic quest to secure her place in her new world, and among her own kind.

This is the first book of a complete trilogy (the second being 'Horatii' and the final 'Theosis'). Each book is a pretty quick read, and although each is a self-contained story with no cliffhangers, collective they make a single coming of age fantasy novel set in contemporary, modern times. The audience is young adult and adult alike, with each book becoming more mature and exploring deeper and more personally profound topics.