num_pages: 337
description: Ashley hates her life. First her mother dies, then her sister turns against her, then her father stops talking to her and then, then he moves them all to the boons! She's not sure she can take much more. All this stress and she's only nine years old. Is seems as though this is going to be one long, painful life. The day she moves to her new home is the bleakest one she can remember since her mother died a year before. Instead of unpacking her room she sneaks out of the house to take a walk and just be alone. The woods in front of her new home look inviting, so she decides to take a look. Yes. This is a place where she can be alone to think... As she walks along, suddenly she realizes that the trees are getting fainter and fainter. Looking down, she notices with horror that her own body is as well! Soon all she can see is white and, in terror, she calls for her father. But there is no answer. Again and again she calls him until finally she hears an answer. But this is not her father! This is a little girl from another world! The little girl's name is Sense and she is the strangest person Ashley has ever seen. Telling Ashley that it would be unwise to want to return home so quickly, she leads our little heroine to her friend Crazy's house. Ashley isn't sure that she wants to meet someone named Crazy. But Crazy turns out to be pretty normal, as Crazys go, and soon Ashley has warmed up to both of them. Going home begins to seem like a waste as she is told more and more about Specifia, the world she has come to. Though Crazy and Sense seem nice, they are very skittish about certain questions Ashley has, saying only that Wisdom will tell her the next day. So, though she knows her father will be worried, Ashley stays the night at Crazy's home. Nothing, she thinks that night, will keep her from finding out more about this interesting place. Nothing. While Ashley is fearful of Wisdom at first, like Crazy and Sense she soon learns to love and respect her. Wisdom explains many things to Ashley, including that she is supposedly the great heroine of Specifia, not only that but a real legend! Of course, she is amazed by this and more than a little cynical about the whole deal. Still, the fact that Specifia even exists is amazing, so why should anything else surprise her? After Wisdom explains to her about Society, the dark and evil city that is slowly extinguishing souls, Ashley begins to fear this heroine thing as well as awe it. She is supposed to fight IT, the terrible demon controlling Society? She is supposed to save the entire world of Specifia as well as her own? She is supposed to do this all alone? How? She's just a little girl! She can't do anything remotely close to this! Can she? Wisdom seems so sure that she can that Ashley takes the job. Surely Wisdom can't be wrong and besides, this is much more of an adventure than going home would ever be. Soon Ashley finds herself sitting atop a Specifian saddle horse with her two new friends by her side, riding into adventure and not a little bit of danger as well. Can our little heroine defeat an entire city? Can she somehow save two entire worlds? How? She has no idea. By the time she reaches the dark city, though, she knows something that will keep her sane, focused and strong. Something that will make all the difference between victory and defeat. Something she had no idea about before. Something stronger than anything IT or Society can ever throw at her. She knows that with God all things are possible, even a little girl toppling an entire evil realm and saving two worlds single handily.
language: English
title: The Veiling Society
titlecomplete: The Veiling Society
publisher: Jessica Sandoval