Inside the Sun: The 8th Island Trilogy, Book 3, A Novel

All worlds are dying, and it's up to one broken and dysfunctional family from Earth-the Wellsleys-to save the day.

Cancer-ridden Ella celebrates her fifteenth birthday beneath an enchanted mountain, but it is what lies even farther below-the mysterious Star in the sea-that demands she grow up quickly. While Ella grapples with the sacrifice she must make and the lies she is forced to tell, her mother, Tessa, is hell-bent on protecting her.

Through bizarre encounters, love-sick Tessa realizes...