Portals to Whyland

Fourteen-year old Karina doesn’t know what she wants, but knows what she’s found - fascinating silver shoes. Fascinating, dangerous, and potentially evil. On the upside, they do bring cool visitors. When a princess invites her to go to Whyland and save her kingdom, of course she accepts. There’s that little “let’s destroy the shoes” detail she’s not crazy about, but hey, free trip, alternate world. But Whyland is nothing like she expected.

Kiss him. Don't fall in love. Break a spell with a kiss. Karina has heard and seen enough weird stuff for this request to sound legit. At 16, Karina has a shot at adventure--and an odd first kiss - when she's called to Whyland, a kingdom in another dimension, to save a guy she barely knows. Why her? No clue, but she's happy to help, and kissing Sian isn't torture, even if he isn't to be trusted. Karina's smart enough not to fall in love - or at least to tell herself not to. Once in Whyland, she realizes that risking a broken heart is the smallest of her problems.

Karina trusts strangers in the faint hope of finding her way back to Whyland, troubled by dreams about Sian in grave danger. But there are more dimensions and more enemies than she expected. With her life on the line, even her own mind is not safe. Sian has an impossible task: Challenge and defeat the gigantic Maris king. In his struggle, he'll find out he's more dangerous than even he'd ever thought, and so much more than he'd ever imagined.