About the Book: Eleven-year-old Mira Morales from Guatemala was meant to die in a locked moving van on the Texas-Mexico border along with her twin brother, Bastien. Instead, a fairy creature transports Mira, Bastien, and two other children to the broken world of Arkenia.

But fairy magic isn’t perfect. . . .

Bastien falls under the power of a dark fairy, while Mira and her new friends Keeya and Simon discover their magical powers and unite against invading ghouls. Can Mira conquer the ghouls and save her brother before he becomes a changeling?

Her family thought her weak. Mira’s about to prove them wrong.

About the Author: Kathy Bjornestad is a retired K-12 school librarian and language arts teacher. She is a Wyoming Fellowship for Creative Fiction recipient and has received an honorable mention for the Neltje Blanchan Award. Kathy has placed in multiple writing contests, published several essays in Christian Science Monitor Weekly, and most recently placed pieces in anthologies such as Pasque Petals, Passionfruit Review, and Scurfpea Publishing’s Green Elephant. She is part of South Dakota’s 2024 Speakers’ Bureau and has indie-published four children’s books: Rhymes from the Reef, Bugs in the Backyard, The Amazing Sunny York, and Ghouls of Greenbottom Ward. She’s currently hard at work on an adult science fiction trilogy. You can find her at redheadswrite.net.