Fourteen year-old Aria is always looking for adventure, and just by skippingstones in a river, she enters the biggest one of her life, through a magicalportal to a land of medieval myth. Meeting up with an elf and a streetwisecity-boy, they travel across Daleri, with an evil mysterious wraith on theirtrail. Over wolf-infested mountains and through shadowed forests, withenemies at every turn, the journey is an adventure in itself. But thoughevery encounter seems it might be their last, it is nothing comparedto the dangers that await them in the Black Valley...



Emily Sherwood lives in sunny Northern California with her family. When she can, she rides horses and enjoys swimming and kayaking. Her curiosity and sense of adventure have provided her with many great experiences to fuel The Sapphire Key, her first published work. As a young writer, she is delighted that her hopes of being a published author are finally coming true, after the two years that it took to finish The Sapphire Key.