TSUKIKO AND the MOON LANTERN. A Fantasy Novel of Invisible World

After a car explosion kills her parents, seventeen year old Tsukiko stops speaking.She stops eating. Then she stops caring if she wakes up.Nothing the living say can touch her grief. So she walks away from everything and heads toward Mount Fuji, where old stories claim a hidden passage leads to the truth about life and death.What she finds is stranger than any legend.A gnome named Nomu who teaches her that minerals remember.A white heron who guides her through water, fire, and air. An undine called Bylzia.A salamander named Yakedo. And an inner shadow that whispers she was never meant to survive.From the world beneath the floor to the seven rooms of consciousness, Tsukiko must cross every element and face every fear.For some wounds do not heal. They become doors.