The Portal

New Year's Eve, 2019. Mari Stratton arrives at Stefanie Anders' New Year's party with her brother Randall and her hearing-impaired friend Lauren. Tony Rodriguez joins them. A collecting game begins in the fields outside prior to the New Year's countdown. When midnight strikes, Mari finds herself and the four others propelled by a violent green storm into a confusing landscape of beauty, danger, and mystery. In this place, ruthless black-cloaked riders on horseback called Shifters comb the countryside hunting them down. Worse yet, this bizarre alternate world is not only patterned after the things Mari adores, but it features the hideous, secret things she fears the most. Will she be able to navigate this landscape and develop courage before it is too late for her and the others? More importantly--how will she and the others get back to the real world?This novel is the first in a five-part series but is complete and can be read by itself.