The Erlkin's Lair

Jasmine is an ordinary fourteen-year-old who loves archery and track and field…until she receives a letter from Avalon, the half-sister she never knew existed. According to Avalon, their mother didn’t die in a car crash two years ago. She was abducted by the Banished, a family of outcasts from a world filled with magic. Jasmine leaps into a portal that takes her to a harsh desert landscape whose inhabitants are as unforgiving as the land itself. Quickly, she joins forces with Ramzi, a boy awaiting sentencing for a crime his father committed. Jasmine discovers that like her mother and half-sister, she belongs to a tribe of Sensitives, and learns to harness her mental abilities. But when strange symbols appear on her hand, more questions emerge about her past. There is another kind of magic flowing through her veins, yet its origins terrify her. If she is going to find her mother and capture the Banished—who have forged an alliance with a terrifying creature called the Erlkin—Jasmine must come to terms with her heritage, learn to control her magic, and find inner strength she didn’t know she had.