In the dawn of the Fifth Age, ancient wisdom needs a modern girl.

Meet Crystal Blue. Child of the Stars. Born to Illuminate Humanity.

What if you suddenly learned from a green-eyed stranger that you’re an Avatar, someone gifted with the ability to walk between worlds? And what if you learned that you were the only person on earth capable of re-wiring humanity by traveling the world over in one year’s time, unveiling and sharing the secrets of the ancients’? What’s worse? What if you had no choice? If you do not accept your mission—the mission you were born to fulfill—a large portion of Mankind may cease to exist!

Well, this is Crystal Blue’s problem…she doesn’t want the job.

But, because the green-eyed man—the man she’s never met but has dreamt of her whole life—has just saved her from bleeding to death in a 7-11 where she’s left after a botched kidnapping, Crystal feels a certain obligation to at least listen to him.

His name is Dr. David Lange, a physics professor now decoding the ancient manuscript which tells him of Crystal’s mission. Only days before, Crystal found the large red, leather-bound book with the gold snakes on its cover in the basement of a bookstore. The discovery should have been a clue that her life was about to change since the book did try taking a bite out of her, then transports her to a place where a mysterious energy painfully activates the eleventh layer of her DNA, and she meets a blue-scaled dragon that sounds like her Irish grandmother, awakening to discover streaks of blue threaded through her long, dark dreadlocks…but it didn’t. Not until she’s attacked by an over-sized serpent in David’s home while playing the piano and left with a strange tattoo around her neck does Crystal finally accept that she isn’t your ordinary teenager and maybe she is a bit…special.

Yet again, this is a problem: she doesn’t want to be special or go anywhere. After being fairly miserable for most of her eighteen years, she’s finally found a bit of happiness. She’s just moved in with her estranged, older sister, Claire, and landed her dream job at The Blue Crystal Bookstore in Minneapolis, owned by the elderly Cosmo Attis; her newest friend. But most importantly, she just wants to be with Adam, the handsome, mysterious young man who notices her special blue aura when he first sees her. Unfortunately, the manuscript warns David of ill-fated consequences if Crystal and Adam come together. Crystal must leave and she must leave those she loves behind.

Fortunately for Crystal, she won’t have to travel the world alone. David, the book’s chosen scribe, will join her along with The Guardians, a select group of soldiers and a huge dog named Wyndon. They will offer their protection when trouble draws near. And trouble, in the form of the serpent, an angry energy guarding the ancient secrets, will follow Crystal, trying to stop her from illuminating humanity.

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