Guardian of the Sky Realms

Age range 9 to 12

Maree Webster - an ‘almost-emo’ from the western suburbs of Sydney - hates school, has few friends, and is obsessed with angels and fallen angel stories.

Life is boring until she decides to steal a famous painting from a small art gallery that has been haunting her dreams: swirling reds, greys and oranges of barely discernible winged figures. There, she meets a stranger who claims to know her and stumbles into a world where cities float in the sky, and daemons roam the barren, magma-spewing crags of the land far below. And all is not well - Maree is turning into something she loves but at the same time, fears. Most fearful of all is the prospect of losing her identity - what makes her Maree, and more importantly, what makes her human. Guardian of the Sky Realms takes the reader on a journey through exotic fantasy lands, as well as across the globe, from Sydney to Paris, from the Himalayas to Manhattan. At its heart, it is a novel about transformation.