Imagine starting at the end and finishing back at the beginning. This is the story of a teenage girl called Valerie Saunders who is about to be thrown through time and space. Being bestowed with abilities beyond her wildest nightmares, she discovers that she not only has to deal with turning eighteen, her first job and an unwanted tattoo, but also magical powers and intense urges to fall in love. She envisaged she would spend her life blending into the scenery, not blowing it up! Val has a calling, but which side is dialling her number?

Take a coven of witches, one tattoo, a first edition bookshop, an evil love crazed psychopath and a prison. Mix that with an alien Father Christmas look-alike, two parents you never knew you had, betrayal, a dash of heartbreak and a Morris Traveller and you have a glimpse of Valerie Saunders' life yesterday, before bed Just wait till she wakes up...

Three civilisations are at war – a war that could lead to the end of Earth as we know it. The time has come to take sides. Valerie Saunders has been given a gift, a job and a hunter – now she has to decide what she wants, and who will guide her down the right path. There are the ones who can be trusted, the ones that must be obeyed, and the ones who can't be seen... She also has the perilous task of choosing her wedding dress!"

The Awakening: As the widow of a Nyterian dictator, Val Saunders has been relieved of duty on Alchany after narrowly avoiding Extraction. Now, with the help of the Warden, she finds herself reunited with her birth mother in 1645, surrounded by her friends, and in the process of a Transformation. But with a civil war raging and a history-changing witch-hunt in full swing, things are about to get a little heated…