Through the Pages

(Yikes.. okay) This story is about a girl, who lives in New York City, who thinks that life should be more like her books. When she was 7 or 10 (can't remember) her mother gave her a pendant that she then said would protect her if ever she needed it. Her mother was then diagnosed with schizophrenia because she made claims of there being another world outside this one. Anyway, one day the girl, Valerie, finds herself in a pickle that she can't get out of. The pendant starts to glow and the girl blacks out. When she wakes up she is surrounded by trees, none of which she has ever seen before. She meets a red-haired girl, Everleigh, who tells her that she is in Ospeatho. Any who, she goes through a series of challenges and almost dies, meets her father (the king...maybe), almost dies, falls in love with a knight named River, almost dies, gets ambushed by elves, almost dies, starts a war, (you guessed it) almost dies again, and disappears back to New York City.