Book Two
The second book in the series tells the prequel story. Leah is taken back to the Guardian’s house after the fight, and is cared for by the people she thought were Ben’s family – both the Mother and Father are Guardian’s, whilst his sister, like Ben, has been placed with them as mentors as they accept their transition to guardianship.
The Clinton “family” have lived in the village for over 400 years, aging in their mortal shells, and then being reborn as future family members. While we don’t find out more about Ben’s past than this, we do begin to understand the dreams that Leah had, and the meaning of the violent weather. The driver of the car is the woman she thought was her mother, also a guardian, who had guarded her alongside her real father since birth, when her real mother died.
The Guardian's have been sent because Lilith (the first woman to walk the Earth) wanted to capture Leah in order to absorb her powers, and had sent sentinels once before, when Leah was a small girl (the crying child of her dreams), when her Mother had rescued her (taking the part of Leah in the dream). The second attempt was successful in that the harbinger managed to capture her during the staged accident that killed the mortal body of her mother. The harbinger brought Leah to this world, which is almost identical to her own. Through the power of the drugs he was giving her, Leah remembered the loss of her mother, but not that her real father had also been killed, and that the harbinger had taken his place.
Leah discovers that she herself is from another world, and that she has magical powers, including being able to control and replay time, something Lilith is desperate to obtain. The violent storms are tears in the fabric between the worlds, and erupt when something has transferred – in this case Leah is found through forgetting to take her medication, which until the start of her story, has cloaked her from them.
The Clinton “family” have lived in the village for over 400 years, aging in their mortal shells, and then being reborn as future family members. While we don’t find out more about Ben’s past than this, we do begin to understand the dreams that Leah had, and the meaning of the violent weather. The driver of the car is the woman she thought was her mother, also a guardian, who had guarded her alongside her real father since birth, when her real mother died.
The Guardian's have been sent because Lilith (the first woman to walk the Earth) wanted to capture Leah in order to absorb her powers, and had sent sentinels once before, when Leah was a small girl (the crying child of her dreams), when her Mother had rescued her (taking the part of Leah in the dream). The second attempt was successful in that the harbinger managed to capture her during the staged accident that killed the mortal body of her mother. The harbinger brought Leah to this world, which is almost identical to her own. Through the power of the drugs he was giving her, Leah remembered the loss of her mother, but not that her real father had also been killed, and that the harbinger had taken his place.
Leah discovers that she herself is from another world, and that she has magical powers, including being able to control and replay time, something Lilith is desperate to obtain. The violent storms are tears in the fabric between the worlds, and erupt when something has transferred – in this case Leah is found through forgetting to take her medication, which until the start of her story, has cloaked her from them.
