Alternate cover edition of ASIN B00K1PD5D8 Mara Lantern doesn’t believe in metaphysical powers and alternate realities. That's about to change. After a jetliner plunges into the Columbia River near Portland, Oregon, everyone survives. So why do crash investigators have a hangar full of bodies, one for each passenger except Mara? Before the plane goes down, she glimpses a new reality, one with scales and snouts, fangs and gills. She sees a boy running down the aisle carrying a ball of blue light, chased by a girl who could be her clone. By trying to help, she unwittingly unleashes dozens of creatures on an unsuspecting world and sparks a series of events that threatens her life, her family and everything she believes. To save them, she has to embrace a power she cannot comprehend.

The spirit of a dead man goes viral. He comes from a realm where the souls—not the bodies—of the departed are interred. Left unattended, his lost spirit spreads like a disease, possessing dozens of people, seeking to fulfill an ancient prophecy—to become one with Mara Lantern and initiate a metaphysical apocalypse that would change the very nature of reality. ———— Join Mara Lantern and her companions in a seven-volume science fiction adventure through reality, time and space, where they encounter everything from steampunk dream worlds to artificial humans, from dragons to disembodied spirits, where metaphysics is science and magic is just one belief from coming true. Author’s To fully enjoy the story, you should read this series in order. Book 1: Broken Realms Book 2: Broken Souls Book 3: Broken Dragon Book 4: Broken Pixels Book 5: Broken Dreams Book 6: Broken Spells Book 7: Broken Talisman This series was previously titled The Chronicles of Mara Lantern. Individual book titles and contents have not changed.

A dragon rampages across Portland, stalking Mara Lantern's mother. Oddly enough, the creature is Mara's friend and mentor, Mr. Ping. After agreeing to share his body with the consciousness of a dragon from an alternate reality, Ping loses control. The monster inside him senses danger and leaves a trail of destruction in its relentless pursuit across the city. So busy fending off attacks, Mara doesn’t have time to figure out why her niece came from the future, or why people who crossed over from other realms are mysteriously disappearing. And if all of that wasn’t enough, Mara still isn’t sure if her friend Abby was actually turned into a metaphysical demon. Note: This series is best read in order. Readers should begin with Broken Realms (The Chronicles of Mara Lantern, Book 1).

In a realm where people abandon their flesh for synthetic bodies, Mara Lantern faces her greatest challenge yet: Preventing the Aphotis, the metaphysical demon that has possessed her friend Abby, from redesigning humanity. When Mara receives a plea for help – via text message – from her friend Cam, she’s surprised. After all, his head is missing and she assumes he is dead. When cornered and faced with losing his body as well, she decides to use the Chronicle of Creation to escape. Her only option: take Cam’s synthetic body back to the one place where he can get help. Home. His home. It’s a decision that will change her perception of what it means to be alive – and human – forever.

Mara Lantern pursues her nemesis—and her friends—into a strange world of dreams where thought creates reality and steam drives exotic technology. Being in a realm of synthetic people who store their biological bodies in stasis tubes is weird enough. Now Mara learns the slumbering occupants of the receptacles have created a dream world where they experience life apart from their artificial selves. Unfortunately, Mara just put her best friend—who is possessed by a metaphysical demon—into one of the stasis receptacles, releasing evil into the minds of thousands of people, turning peaceful dreams into life-threatening nightmares. To save two worlds—one physical, the other ethereal—Mara must embrace a new concept of metaphysics, one that is steam-powered.

To get her biological body back, Mara must save her counterpart and embrace the one thing her mentor Ping has always warned her to reject — magic. After her consciousness is transferred to an artificial body during a visit to what her brother Sam calls the realm of the robots, Mara travels to the one place where her biological body can be restored—the realm of the Aphotis. There her counterpart, the Mara of that world, has the biomechanical know-how to help. However, before the procedure can be done, Mara’s counterpart is kidnapped by a coven of magic-wielding fanatics led by a charismatic and powerful leader who blames her for destroying their faith. To face this new enemy, Mara must learn new magical concepts that—until now—seemed more like fairy tales than the scientific metaphysical principles Ping has taught her.