SOPHIA

Sophia was the brightest soul in the world above, until a voice cried up out of the dark, and she reached too far, and fell. Now she is at the bottom of everything: a world of black stone and cold fire, ruled by a liar who feeds on the lost. Thirteen gates stand between Sophia and home, and each one is a locked room with its own monster, its own trick, its own terrible price. But Sophia is not like the others. The monsters flinch when she speaks. The dark is afraid of her. And she is beginning to wonder why. With a boy who gave up everything to climb beside her, and a small, stubborn light that knows far more than it will say, Sophia fights her way up through the dark, hunting a talisman she is sure will finally set her free, never once dreaming what she will find when she reaches the top. A dark mythic fantasy for readers ten and up, drawn from a real, forgotten sacred text that has survived seventeen hundred years. The Hidden Books, Book One.