A fantasy novel for young adults and up. Podcast in weekly episodes. Read by the author. Look for a new episode every Sunday!
Gabe Wrenn is more than a little unsettled by his family’s move to the creepy old house on Byrnmor Street. Even more unsettling is the prospect of being the new kid in school on Monday and the object of everybody’s gawking stares. There’s only one thing Gabe fears more than having an aura (a form of epileptic seizure) in front of his new teachers and classmates, and that’s the brain surgeon’s knife.
But unsettled can’t begin to describe how Gabe feels when he first stands in The Woods, an unlikely oak grove bordering the park behind his house, and a mysterious voice summons him to “The Door to the East.” It’s an epileptic hallucination for sure, and another sign that his bullying older brother Sam is right: Gabe’s nothing but a brain-damaged freak.
But Ellie Yvonne, the impulsive girl next door, has a different opinion. With disturbing conviction, Ellie declares that Gabe’s epilepsy makes him special. It could even be the key to solving a generations-old mystery shrouding the Brynmor Witch’s bramble-choked grave at the heart of The Woods.
Prepare to undertake an adventure into the misty, shifting boundary zone separating fantasy and reality.
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