Curtain of Perception

Unknowingly, Alika and her friends, Ruth and Heather, stumble into a world they didn't know existed and their destinies now hang in the balance. Alika's loyalties are tested when she is forced to choose between saving her friends and fulfilling an oath that she never meant to take. Alika Clark is a klutzy fourteen, soon to be fifteen, year old who is homeschooled. She spends most of her free time reading, daydreaming, and hanging out with her two best friends Ruth and Heather. One leisurely walk in the woods and the three girls lives are changed forever. They are kidnapped and catapulted into the world of a person who calls himself Lord Mortac. This strange world resembles a medieval society with magic and antiquated customs. It's also right at the doorstep of modern everyday life as they know it, just waiting to interrupt with a wave of chaos. Alika must recall what her friend, Owen Skile, warned her against the last time they saw each other, and she unexpectedly meets a young major in the army who will save her life and capture her heart. In the first book of the trilogy, follow these old and new friends as they twist their way through betrayals, cunningness, and lies barely escaping death as their journeys slowly lead them to truth and undiscovered mysteries that no one expected to find.

Three years after the battle Alika is sent to Asterile, a small Ukiletian civilization, on a mission to find Mortac's son, as well as to be a guest at the king of Asterile's forthcoming wedding. Shortly after she arrives, the city is infected with a deadly disease that quickly becomes an epidemic. To save herself, her friends, and maintain political order, Alika must make risky choices and either accept what fate throws at her or gain the courage to carry out an act she never imagined she could. She must question all she knows as she witnesses how the Ukiletian society truly functions and how cruel it can be. As her fate is enclosed within a "No" or "I do", the life of a friend dangles by a thread and a mysterious new encounter leads Alika down a path of the past that has been kept secret for twenty years. Follow Alika's story in the second book of the Curtain of Perception series to see who destiny will crown as the victor of Alika's fate and heart.