Release Date: October 6, 2014
Target Reader: Adult
Keywords: Fantasy
For, Hyla, though, saving her nation isnât her ultimate goalâreturning to the Pool of Souls is. Becoming its Guardian and preserving their faith is her heartâs desire. The perils of her current journey, though, could leave her unable to fulfill that dream.
To find her way back to the Pool, Hyla must live among dangerous, powerful humans willing to defend the Natives, and must submit herselfâher Talentsâto them. While her protection is paramount, plots to end Hylaâs life will push her to her physical and emotional limits.
On the edge of sanity, her courage tested, and convictions nearly broken, Hylaâs final test of loyalty to her faith comes with the death of one she could have loved.
Instead, Hyla finds herself traveling through a land void of Natives, with human soldiers pillaging in desperate pursuit of her, and in search of the mystical Pool of Soulsâhome to the one man who can save her people.
Or so she believes.
Led by her faith in the deity Fadir, Hyla is met along her journey by Jadonâa human male and fierce Kingâs warrior, and his childhood best friend Conlinâone of the few Natives aware of his Fadir-given Talents.
Protected by Jadon, guided by Conlin, and with an unfailing belief in the purpose of her pilgrimage, Hyla carries on.
Like her, though, another searches for the Pool, and should he gain access first, everyone she loves, and everything she knows, could be lost.
Forever.

Today she enjoys an escape to Middle Earth during the rare âmeâ moments her three young children allow. When not playing toys, picking them back up, or kissing boo-boos, she can be found sprawled on the couch with a book or pencil in hand, and toothpicks propping her eyelids open.
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