First Earth: A YA Fantasy Adventure to Another World (paperback)

For fans of Fourth Wing and Caraval.

Agnes Cavanaugh has spent sixteen years trying to disappear. With burn scars mapped across her skin and chronic nerve pain that flares without warning, she has learned that the easiest way to survive a room full of strangers is not to be noticed.

Then she touches an ancient tablet in a university archive and accidentally activates magic that has not existed on her planet in centuries.

One moment she is in Boston. The next, she is on First Earth, a world of wizards, political intrigue, and a civil war she apparently just made worse by arriving. The only person willing to help her is Temnon, a young wizard with rare and dangerous power and a frustrating habit of knowing more than he says.

Agnes has no training, no allies she fully trusts, and magic she cannot explain or control. What she does have is an instinct for the truth, and on a world full of illusions, that might be the only weapon that matters.

First Earth is the first book in the complete five-book Arch Mage series, a witty, emotionally raw portal fantasy about a scarred girl who never wanted to be chosen, a slow-burn romance built on respect rather than appearances, and magic that cannot be faked.