Katherine Melody Chambers is an abused autistic savant child in a psychogenic coma. To escape her traumatic reality, she lives as Queen Kaila, the protagonist of a fantasy book she loved to read. Blaming himself for the murder of his wife and daughter, Detective Alex Knight searches for redemption by promising justice for the comatose twelve-year-old. Illuminated Shadows is an epic adventure in an enchanted world and a gripping police whodunit thriller that has reality and fantasy converging toward an inescapable collision.
