Publisher's Synopsis
Claire Fisher Miller, a child of twentieth century earth, is the product of parents who are incompatible, a father who is loving but driven to adventures, and a mother who sees virtue in ordinariness. Claire Fisher Miller 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 recover Curly, the orange cat who belongs to her neighbor. In Lunaria, she meets a future King-Pem, a powerful Trader-Rissa, an ambitious village girl-Tess, and an influential mentor, Counselor Gilbert Greybaird, who recognizes her special nature and takes her under his protection. Lunaria is an ancient and sophisticated civilization struggling against the return of forbidden technologies that was proscribed a thousand years earlier in a terrible war. 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. Claire, who thinks of herself as an ordinary girl, is torn between fulfilling a destiny to change Lunaria for the good or to return to her own home to seek her lost father.
