The Orange Cat (Lunaria Book 1)

Claire Miller Fisher thinks of herself as an ordinary teenage girl from an ordinary town until her father is lost in Iraq. Lonely and unhappy with her mother, she is plunged into a strange new world when she follows a boy on his horse through a gate in order to find the orange cat belonging to her neighbor. In Lunaria, she meets a future King, a powerful Trader, an ambitions village girl, and an influential mentor that recognizes her special nature and takes her under his protection. In this first book in the Lunarian Epic, Claire finds loyal friends and terrible enemies that will do anything to destroy her before she can learn enough to change their world.