The Shadow of the Gryphon

In the faerie world of Gryphendale, a new generation reaches adulthood and strikes out on their own adventures...An unusual brownie adventurer named Arthur, and the twin princes, Timothy and Nathaniel, join forces to travel to the underside of their coin-shaped world to break the curse that has turned Nathaniel's fiancée into stone.Arthur must face his traumatic past as he leads Nathaniel and Timothy on the same journey that killed his friends more than forty years before, getting them all stuck far from home with only one impossible way home.Things continue to go wrong when they learn that this curse is just the beginning of more significant problems threatening to destroy the Guardian of the Ocean.Struggling through a debilitating injury, Nathaniel must risk everything to save the ones he loves. Timothy must let go of his dark magic past to use his fire magic against the alliance that threatens to destroy the world with water. Lara Lee is the author of young adult fantasy fiction novels, short stories, and a blog at laraswanderings.wordpress.com. She has a Bachelor of Science in Graphic Design and a Master's Degree in Special Education. She has worked professionally with various publishers and occasionally practices longsword with HEMA. She has lived in three states and four countries and has visited even more destinations with an insatiable curiosity that shows up in her writing. Currently, she lives in Texas with her husband, two sons, a daughter, and a cat who all regularly participate in her misadventures and random schemes. Enter a faerie world inside of our own...When a human girl enters a doorway in the woods, she becomes one of the people of Gryphendale. Gryphendale is a land of nine countries filled with Sprites, Driads, Undines, Mermaids, Saytres, Brownies, Gnomes, and more. Each of these clean, young adult fantasy fiction novels contains its own adventure in this world. A trilogy is just three books with the same main characters on different adventures. Immerse yourself in a world of beauty, danger, love, and heartache.If you enjoyed The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, The Hobbit by Tolkien, or The Last Unicorn by Beagle, you will enjoy these fun, clean adventures.