Mistress of Vision

—Life is confusing for a pubescent girl with 30,000 years of alien experiences thumb-tacked to the back of her brain. When eleven-year-old Kailin and her younger brother escape from their off-world captors and her brother is recaptured, only Kailin's encounter with a salamander saves her from the pyroclastic flow of a volcano. The salamander is Henki, a thirty-thousand-year-old shape-changing alien, whose obsession is imitating the full lifecycle of each species he encounters. Henki has experienced many such lives, but complications in escaping the volcano and bonding with Kailin limit Henki's abilities. Burned by the volcano and confused by her link to Henki, Kailin loses some of her memories, but while she recovers and yearns for her home and family, she makes alien friends. Henki's memories seep into her dreams to produce disturbing visions of lives she never lived. It's tough enough being a pubescent girl without being haunted by alien lives, but without those add-on experiences, Kailin may have difficulty surviving on this mish-mash world. Mistress of Vision is the Book 1 of the young-adult science-fantasy series New Vision. Cover design by Pat R. Steiner.