Disappearing Isle

Seventeen-year-old Tony Rossi has a pretty good thing going for him: family, home, an okay part-time job, and a tidy future that involves graduating high school and hopefully getting a minor scholarship to a state university. Even his fourteen-year-old sister Kelsey isn't too annoying (though it wouldn't do to admit that to her face). Life is good--until a single winter night sees Tony and Kelsey launched into the middle of a conflict between warring factions of a dying species.

The Empress...