
It is certainly an exciting story based on the eternal struggle between good and evil that will definitely appeal to young girls. His aim is to create strong, positive female characters to serve as role models for his own daughters and girls everywhere. But can they make it in time? Or will they even survive the journey?Īuthor Mark Miller says that the book was written for and inspired by his two daughters. Along the way they pass through many dangers but receive help from a monkey-like quzzak named Kez, a boy named Adam who had escaped from the enemy, the Prismata fairies, a prince named William, a horse named Fury, a unicorn named Sayonya, the white tiger Virgata from the town of Bremen, a couple of ghost princesses, a toy soldier named Sylvan, and a pirate named Mildoo Vol. Their father is killed by one of Sasha’s werewolves as the enemy tries to stop the girls. Zandria believes that as the older of the two she will become the next Queen of the Eastern Sky. Zandria and Olena receive a summons to come to the Castle Empyrean. Their mother disappeared shortly after Olena was born.Įmpyrean is being attacked by an army of magical Rockhorn soldiers led by a snail named General Gusk, a renegade dwarf named Lord Vanril, and a gypsy witch named Sasha.

Zandria, age ten, and her younger sister Olena, age six, live with their father in a village near the Queen of the Eastern Sky’s castle. However, the Queen of the Eastern Sky, who is never named, is suddenly killed by a strange monster, thus putting Empyrean in danger because all four queens are needed. Isis is the Queen of the Southern Valley. Cinderella is the Queen of the Western Sun. Snow White is the Queen of the Northern Wood.

What can two young girls do to stem the evil that is threatening the land in which they live? The fairy-tale world of Empyrean is ruled over by four queens who protect Empyrean from evil. The Fourth Queen (published in 2008 by Comfort Publishing LLC, P.

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