The Fractured Path to Emerald Vale

Cade Thompson is fourteen years old, and he has learned three things from his father: how to flinch, how to hide, and how to survive.

When Cade chases his dog Sammy through a gap between two boulders in the woods behind his house, he stumbles into a world that shouldn't exist - an ancient valley where dinosaurs roam, a civilization lives in partnership with creatures that went extinct sixty-five million years ago, and the portal home has sealed shut behind him.

Taken in by the village of Verd...