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This world is much more than it appears. The Other Realm, a place filled with mysterious creatures, where legendary fairy tales become real, exists all around to those willing to see it. As is tradition, five have been chosen by the Stones and entrusted with tremendous abilities to watch over and protect the unseen world. No matter how much they fight it, the power that lies dormant inside all their lives has started to arise from within as they come face-to-face for the first time.

The weight of protecting the Pillars of Good and Light balances heavily upon their unprepared shoulders accompanied by the danger surrounding their first mission to save a neighboring kingdom in need. The task before them will serve as a trial to prove their readiness to receive the title of G.E.Ms or their inevitable demise as they find themselves crushed by the pressure to succeed…

Carter “CJ” Jones and her family have just been dealt the ever damaging blow of her mother walking out on them. And with a sudden move to Eastwood—a strange place surrounded by dark mysterious forests and a town filled with even stranger people—she will find that fitting in is going to be harder than she ever imagined.

And to make matters worse, she discovers she has taken the title of Captain of the all-boys soccer team right out from under vengeful Alex Richards’s hands. Add hearing otherworldly voices, seeing things that aren’t really there, having all your happy childhood expectations about being heroes crushed while discovering new magical abilities you never knew existed and you’ve got one dream Carter can’t wake up from: Her Reality.

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