MORE ABOUT BOOK ONE
She refused to believe in magic
Lyra de Longueville has spent her life building walls: against loneliness, against a mother who always chose ancient manuscripts over her own daughter, and above all, against the childish fantasy of magic, against anything she can’t prove with facts. On the night she turns thirty, alone in her Paris apartment, and on the verge of walking away from a job she despises – her mother’s urgent phone call shatters everything she thought she understood.
Her mother calls from a hospital, her memory fracturing in ways no doctor can fully explain. Her voice is unsteady, her words urgent: their family has secretly guarded the balance between two parallel worlds for generations, and Lyra is next in line. She is her mother’s successor.
The Tome of Worlds – a magical book of immense and dangerous Codices that holds the balance between the Otherworld and the Physicalworld – needs a new Guardian Scribe. It needs her.
Lyra, who has never believed in a single enchanted thing, is now the only one standing between two worlds and the forces threatening to unravel them both. And the forces conspiring to seize it know exactly how to exploit an untried, unwilling young woman who doesn’t even believe she’s in danger.
Somewhere inside the truth her mother could barely speak out before an accident in a rain-soaked roadside in Brittany intervened, Lyra realises she must either choose to dismiss the delusions of her ailing mother or face the consequences of a destiny she spent a lifetime in rejecting.
Lyra must set aside everything she has ever believed, step through the portal into a world of magic she always denied, yield to the pull of fate, and find the antidote to save her mother – before the Tome of Worlds falls into the wrong hands and cause chaos in both worlds?
Does Lyra possess the courage to cross into a world she never believed in before the mother she never truly knew is lost to her forever?
