Book excerpt: After disclosing to her best friend, Logan, that she can see bizarre things, Melanie receives a message from what can only be a sinister presence. With his father vanishing and all the signs telling him to undertake a precarious odyssey, Logan is forced to walk into the unknown along with Melanie and discover a world of bewitched fortresses, invincible monsters, cynical sorceresses and implausible dangers. Only time shall tell if this pair of oblivious sixteen-year-olds can fight through the traps laid out by evil forces and prevent what could potentially be the end of the world.