Argenterra

Every one hundred years a woman comes to Argenterra through the Crystal Tree Woods. This time two women came… While on a ghost tour in Castle Crioch, Sophy and her best friend and foster sister, Aria, are sucked into the world of Argenterra, where they encounter a strange Crystal Tree. Two leaves fall from it, one of which Aria catches and the other mysteriously delves into Sophy's chest. Met by Dellbright, the prince of Valley Keep, and Oakheart, the high king's ambassador, the girls learn they are expected. Aria has beauty and talent with the given, the land's native magic. She finds a home and a husband in Prince Dellbright and is revered as the legendary Gift of Crystal Tree Woods. Sophy is out of place as anything made with the given makes her ill. Sophy accompanies Oakheart to the capital to find out why the crystal leaf is in her chest. A sinister force is tracking her-trying to snatch her away or kill her. Only Oakheart suspects her importance: she is the talisman that can cause great harm to the world of Argenterra if she falls into the wrong hands. The Silverlands Series In a land where oaths can't be broken be careful what promises you make. To break the binding oath is to risk the very magic of Argenterra. Vorn and the first comers fleeing death and destruction came to Argenterra through the Crystal Gate. On arrival, they made a binding oath to not kill and in return the land gave them the given, a native magic. For over a thousand years they have prospered but now the ancient evil seeks Vorn's descendants and reaches a hand into the land. Oaths are bound with the given and every promise must be kept or the land's magic will compel completion of the oath or prevent its breaking. Only a murder can sunder the binding oath. In his later years, Vorn prophesied that a time would come when the land would be ungiven. That time is near.