Jonathan Fore

Lexicon Chase: Scrolls of the Harlequin [book 1] Jonathan Fore

Publisher Marketing: Lexicon Chase could feel the end of her rope slipping through her hands. From a broken home of very little means, Lexicon had learned to live without fashion, makeup, friends, or even a future. The bullies of her every day had taken her self worth, her dignity, her hopes, and her dreams, and the accusations they made began to ring with truth. Now that she was in high school, she had less, and no reason to even hold on. That was until her grandmother passed to her an heirloom and dark family secret. For forty-seven years, her grandmother ruled as queen of a fantasy kingdom. A kingdom full of pageantry and mystery, magic and fairies, a kingdom called Everhope. On the worst of all of Lexicon's terrible days, her grandmother decides to step aside, and pass Everhope to Lexicon. Instantly, Everhope becomes Lexicon's final refuge from the bullies of her real world. In Everhope, Lexicon is the princess. In Everhope, she is the unquestionable ruler. In Everhope, Lexicon can do as she wants, but more importantly escape the schoolyard predators. Also in Everhope, there hides an ancient evil eternally seeking its vengeance. The wonder Lexicon inherited has begun to change, what should have been her escape now threatens her very life, and her new kingdom grows dark. But after all the years of torment at the hands of her bullies, Lexicon finally has a reason to stand and fight, and that reason is Everhope.