The Lily Girl

Clutched in her fingers was a pulsing light, silvery and bright. "What is it?" I asked, halting just beyond reach. "A flower," the crone crooned, but I knew it wasn't. "A flower for Lily." She opened her hand and drove the light against my forehead. It burned worse than fire, and my eyes were filled with a blinding light as it struck me." --------------------------------------------------------- Lily isn't important; in fact, almost nobody remembers her real name, Kyra, at all. But when a strange crone puts a burning mark on her face, Lily discovers that she bears the title Sought, and she is an essential key in a forgotten feud. Dragged from her home by her Protector Nissa, Lily is swept into a chase that takes her across all four kingdoms of Quaterna. Along the way, Lily meets other Sought who carry hidden talents. But the last of their kind is missing, and nobody knows where she went. Without this final piece of the puzzle, how can they hope to outwit the sorcerer Malus, who knows how to unlock and control the deep powers of the Sought? With lyrical style similar to Franny Billingsley's "The Folk Keeper" and adventure akin to Susan Fletcher's "Dragon's Milk", "The Lily Girl" is a magical adventure for middle-grade readers ages 10 and up.