Jennifer--
Things here have gotten very bad.
My girl, when you opened the Way, something happened. It has been weeks
since you left, and spring has still not come. The rains continue, every
day. Winter has been creeping back in. The river through town is
flooding, and none of the farmers have been able to put in their crops.
I am afraid that something from that world is spilling over into ours.
You must come home at once. I need you here.
But Fer can't go home yet. Ever since she went through the Way, she's
felt an attachment to this new world and its magic, and senses that it
is perilously out of balance. The key to healing the land and defeating
its powerful ruler lies in Fer's past and the parents she never knew.
She must discover who she is and unleash her inner warrior before the
worlds on both sides of the Way plunge into a never-ending winter.