Grace always thought she was meant to do something more than serve customers, and often wondered what lie beyond the stars.

So when she is invited to travel to another realm, avoiding her mother's insistence of wedding a suitor she had arranged, she doesn't think twice.

Destined to save worlds, she must face tyrants, armies and dragons.

Will she accept her destiny, or be buried in the ashes of war?

Michelle Mackenzie is the writer and author of the published novel, The Dark Queen series (Book 1): The Storm Within. Encouraged by the sucess of her book, she is continuing to her career as a thriller and suspense writer.