Author's Note

'Everyone turned towards the closet where Sam was kneeling down at the open door and pulling out the large, wooden box Tara had stuffed in. Looking at it in the open though, it looked more like a chest. There was an elegant pattern carved into it and it was studded with gems in an odd pattern. It also seemed to be giving out a faint glow and the other four children, as though hypnotized, walked over curiously and knelt around it.'
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Tara is a girl who is aggravated by her boring life of unending chores and sibling arguments. But what she didn't know about was a certain book locked away in her grandfather's closet. A book of magic and secrets that was going to change everything...