SHADOW QUEEN by Debbie Tanner Federici and Susan Vaught It's easy to walk the Path if you've never been tested. Jasmina Corey can't rest in peace. She's trapped in the land of the dead, separated from her beloved home and her beloved champion, Bren. Worse than that, an annoying peacock won't leave her alone. Once the arrogant bird shows her a vision of treachery in L.O.S.T., Jasmina must battle her own fears and a small army of bloodthirsty harpies to reach the gateway between life and death. Peace? Peace is just a dream for Brenden McAllister, newly anointed King of the Witches. He can't stop thinking of his lost love Jazz, his father and Jazz's mother are breathing down his neck, and his little brother Todd keeps ticking off the oldeFolke, which is a very bad idea. Against the advice of everyone he knows, he puts aside these struggles and sets off through the dangerous Sacred Lands to rescue Jazz. Nothing can keep him from her, him from Jazz, except maybe shapeshifting freaks and wicked women with fangs. Unfortunately for Bren and Jazz, coming back from the dead is the least of their troubles. A pitched battle with giant harpies. . .a terrible injury that will change Bren's life forever. . .betrayal from the must unexpected place. . .and that's not all. Each trial drives them farther apart, forces them closer to the brink of what they can stand, until the final bitter confrontation with Bren's evil half-brother Alderon-and what's left of Nire's deadly army of Shadows. Bren and Jazz-and L.O.S.T.-will never be the same.