Tara's Necklace

Six days. Two worlds. Nothing will ever be the same. Seventeen-year-old Kith is many things: affable, frail and adventurous; a friend, a daughter and a collector. She also happens to have a solid body in a world full of wisps, and a life expectancy she's long-since exceeded. And that's not even the most remarkable thing about her. Six days a week, Kith rises early to cross a gate into another world, where she breakfasts with the mysterious creatures known as shadows. Bound to Kith by an inter-world treaty since she was six years old, the shadows provide Kith with something even more valuable than food: they teach her history and give her knowledge of the worlds-two things the people of Kith's isolated home-world lost long ago. When the shadows' lessons take a sinister turn, everything Kith hopes for is suddenly at risk. She has a fractured friendship and a handsome young man on her mind-not ancient history. She's the last person who could keep her world safe. But the long-lived shadows know the truth: history is about to repeat itself, whether Kith is ready for it or not.

Dare to dream. Live to defy.I can't remember the last time I dared to dream about anything-not about my future, never about love, and certainly not about the sorcery the ancestors left behind.All that's about to change.Kith has spent each of her seventeen years being coddled by the wisps and semi-wisps of her world. Born physically fragile, her family, elders and neighbors have never allowed her the independent life she craves. It's no wonder she looks forward to her brush with sorcery each morning. When she passes through an ancient gate to a neighboring world, the animal-like shadows are there to welcome her-and the shadows aren't the coddling type.Bound by treaty to feed and educate her, the magical shadows have become beloved teachers for Kith-until one of them makes a shocking decision. Kith must succeed at a new type of education: she must learn to run faster than a shadow or risk going hungry.With the weight of an inter-world treaty on her shoulders--and encouragement from a young man with courtship on his mind-Kith sets out on a journey to become stronger, smarter and more independent, all within the bounds of her dying world and the body she was born with. Because as the last of her ancestors' protective sorcery gives way, it's no longer enough for Kith to defy the odds.It's time to live to defy. C.K. Beggan writes portal and romantic fantasy for new and young adults. She is the author of the new adult series Tara's Necklace (Girl of Shadow and Glass, Girl of Glass and Fury), a series featuring chronic illness representation. She also writes the YA serial fantasy novel The Fishermen's Princess (currently free for newsletter subscribers) and has a free contemporary fantasy story, Horace: A Sorcer World Novelette, as an exclusive for her mailing list.C.K.'s hobbies include book blogging, knitting, crochet and creating the free web comics Princess Disasterface, Growin' Pup and Social Isolation. She lives in Ohio with her intrepid dog. From a drought-stricken world of fading magic to a world where terrifying creatures lurk in the jungle, this New Adult romantic portal fantasy series with chronic illness representation follows multiple narrators on their journeys to find lost magic, save Sundown and find a place for themselves somewhere in the worlds of Tara's Necklace.Tara's Necklace follows underestimated shade-child Kith, hot-tempered wisp Finchoa and forthcoming narrators as an old war and new enemies arrive in the dying world of Sundown. Can magic be rediscovered in Tara's Necklace? And if it is, will there be anything left to save?

Save the world. Lose yourself.They call me a true wisp, as if that's all there is to me. But when I find the secrets to our ancestors' magic, they'll wish they never doubted me.I'm going to save this good-for-nothing world.Finchoa isn't like the other girls. Thanks to her ghost-like body she can't be with the boy she cares for, can't help her best friend and-most frustratingly of all-she can't cross the gate linking her world to that of the shadows.But Finchoa longs for magic, just as she burns for every wisp to be treated fairly. As her determination morphs into rage, she will stop at nothing to uncover the ancestors' lost sorcery and change her world. And if that means exploring the ruined ancient cities to find it, so be it. The only trouble?Magic has a cost, and what Finchoa finds in the mountains will change her life forever.I can't lose the people I love.Note: Girl of Glass and Fury (Tara's Necklace Book Two) can be read before Girl of Shadow and Glass (Tara's Necklace Book One) C.K. Beggan writes portal and romantic fantasy for new and young adults. She is the author of the new adult series Tara's Necklace (Girl of Shadow and Glass, Girl of Glass and Fury), a series featuring chronic illness representation. She also writes the YA serial fantasy novel The Fishermen's Princess (currently free for newsletter subscribers) and has a free contemporary fantasy story, Horace: A Sorcer World Novelette, as an exclusive for her mailing list.C.K.'s hobbies include book blogging, knitting, crochet and creating the free web comics Princess Disasterface, Growin' Pup and Social Isolation. She lives in Ohio with her intrepid dog. From a drought-stricken world of fading magic to a world where terrifying creatures lurk in the jungle, this New Adult romantic portal fantasy series with chronic illness representation follows multiple narrators on their journeys to find lost magic, save Sundown and find a place for themselves somewhere in the worlds of Tara's Necklace.Tara's Necklace follows underestimated shade-child Kith, hot-tempered wisp Finchoa and forthcoming narrators as an old war and new enemies arrive in the dying world of Sundown. Can magic be rediscovered in Tara's Necklace? And if it is, will there be anything left to save?

There are worse things than the shadows. It's a cruel and unjust world Finchoa lives in, and she's determined to change it. Which would be a lot easier if not for one, massive problem: She's a wisp. To change the course of history, Finchoa will use every advantage she has-including her many friends. With the help of the boy she can't be with and the friend she most trusts, Finchoa sets out to find their ancestors' lost magic and a better future for her world. One in which her childhood friend Kith-and all the shade-children like her-will never have to choose between the dangerous shadows of the Open World and starvation. Set in the same few days as Girl of Shadow and Glass (Tara's Necklace Book One), Finchoa's righteous anger grows into a force of its own, leading her out of her desert home and into a wild, new world she never could have imagined. Nor could she have dream of Arc, the mysterious soldier who suspects she's more than she appears. And he isn't wrong. Finchoa's encounters with ancient magic are changing her in ways she can't understand-yet. With a bone-chilling jungle world full of dark surprises and a desert world mired in wicked winds, the worlds stand against a girl with the body of a ghost. Can Finchoa become what she needs to and unravel the secrets of Sundown? Or will those secrets die with her? Note: Girl of Glass and Fury (Tara's Necklace Book Two) can be read before Girl of Shadow and Glass (Tara's Necklace Book One).