Author's Note (May be skipped but I'll like you if you don't)

They demanded attention the most—those who she did not want to see. They had been sending signals through nightmares, through adults, through the pain of a close friend...

They cannot be ignored any longer. Cleo DeLeon, a smart and proud schoolgirl, had been seeing lions dance in the shadows of her imagination. Yet now, they were stepping out of the shade as well as stepping out to reality.

Thrust into a world of fierce fighters, Cleo meets friends and possibly a new home. But her enemies are hidden as friends and friends as enemies, and her new haven is on the verge of destruction—and the blame is thrown to her. To survive, she must find the roar in her voice—a roar that belongs to the one who is trying to possess her.