Speculative Fiction

When Michelle is transported to a world of her own imagination, her only hope of saving her children is to save the fantasy world of her abandoned novel.

Michelle is an exhausted homeschool mom trying to hold the home together during her husband’s deployment. Her son is running a fever and her daughter can’t keep her head out of the clouds long enough to complete three math problems. And all that remains of Michelle’s dream of being an author lies neatly tucked away out of sight.

But when 9-year-old Sammie finds Michelle’s old journals and begins adding to them with her own imagination, she writes herself into Kalpania—the fantasy world of Michelle’s old novel—and Michelle soon follows. But that world is dying. The Shadow Witch seeds despair as an incurable illness creeps across the land. Michelle must partner with her own main character, face the Shadow Witch, and save the fantasy world Michelle had discarded along with her dreams. 

Michelle’s journey is one that challenges her parenting and her faith, but most of all rekindles the flame of hope in darkness.