Initiation (49 page)

Too right. She was really old. I took a closer look at her and wondered exactly how old. Her gray hair was tied back in a tight bun, and her face and hands were covered in tiny wrinkles. It was impossible to tell. If she’d been human, I’d have guessed her age at somewhere between seventy and eighty, maybe even ninety. However, her fiery red eyes revealed that she was clearly not a human. So, she could be over a hundred years old, for all I knew. Still, her frail demeanor didn’t fool me. She was one of the most powerful hybrids in the world–a demon witch. Much as I was tempted to agree with her statement, there was absolutely no point in baiting an old witch-demon hybrid.

“Well?” she barked.

“Dad’s arranged for me to go back to Bonfire Academy for my Integration year. I’ll deal with her then.”

Imogen Rose is the author of the bestselling YA series, the Portal Chronicles. She was born in a small town in Sweden and moved to London in her twenties. After obtaining a PhD in immunology from Imperial College, she moved with her family to New Jersey, where she’s been based for the past ten years.

For as long as she can remember, Imogen has dreamt stories, stories that continued from night to night, from dream to dream. So, even as a child, going to bed was never an issue, just an anticipation of the story to come.

Portal, Imogen’s first novel, would have remained in her imagination, to be shared only with her daughter, Lauren, had her eight-year-old not insisted that she write it down. In the course of a month, Imogen typed while Lauren waited eagerly by the printer for the pages to appear, and a novel took shape. The warm reception Portal received encouraged her to continue with the story and the Portal Chronicles.

Imogen is a self-confessed Hermès addict who enjoys shopping, traveling, watching movies and playing with her dog, Tallulah.

For more information, check out the following links:

Website: http://www.ImogenRose.com/

Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/pages/PORTAL/243074017116

Books by Imogen Rose

FAUSTINE (Bonfire Chronicles Book One)

Who is Faustine? When Faustine Spencer was five years old, she discovered a secret that changed her life forever. At twelve, her parents sent her to Bonfire Academy in Switzerland to ensure that she received the training needed to control her increasing powers.

Three years later, Faustine returns to Manhattan. All she wants is to be a typical teenager, at least, one that's part of the in-crowd at her Upper East Side High School. When drop-dead gorgeous Ryker, her long-time crush from the Academy, finally notices her, she couldn't be happier.

However, her desire for a normal life is shattered when her father, a prominent sovereign, disappears after naming her as his successor. Her siblings begin to disappear, and Faustine finds herself in the midst of a power struggle. With her life in danger, Faustine must learn to follow one of Bonfire Academy's most important rules: Trust no one.

PORTAL (Portal Chronicles Book One)

"I think it has a very clever hook and plays so well against a variety of genres–YA, fantasy, romance, sci-fi. It's a very tough balancing act to walk the tightrope of so many genres without slipping up on one of them, but I'll be damned if you didn't pull it off with aplomb." – Terry Goodman (Senior Editor at Amazon Publishing)

"Portal… when love's just the beginning of the story" – KindleObsessed

Twilight meets The Time Traveler’s Wife! – Steven Windwalker (Kindle Nation)

Come Find Me Two Years Ago…

Six words that propelled ice hockey-playing tomboy, Arizona, into an alternate dimension.

She suddenly found herself in the past. In one moment she went from being an ice hockey-playing teenager in New Jersey to a glamorous cheerleader in California. She found herself transported from a happy life with her dad, Dillard, to a new, strange one living with her mother, whom she hates. Apparently it’s a life she's always lived in.

Everyone knows her as Arizona Darley, but she isn't. She is Arizona Stevens.

As she struggles to find answers she is certain of one thing–that her mother Olivia, a brilliant physicist, is somehow responsible.
 

PORTAL is the story of the repercussions of Olivia Darley’s attempt at creating a perfect world for herself and her children. Arizona’s quest for answers threatens to undermine the seemingly perfect world that her mother has so carefully constructed.

EQUILIBRIUM (Portal Chronicles Book Two)

It’s not every day you see a naked body slumped by the side of the road….

This ominous sight is just the beginning of a mystery that will span two dimensions.

When California teen Arizona Darley and her siblings go missing, their mother, Dr. Olivia Darley, discovers that the time-travel portal she invented has been hijacked.

Is the hijacker responsible for the disappearance of her children? Have the children been transported to another dimension? If so, the police and FBI will never be able to find them, and Olivia Darley must find a way to rescue her children on her own.

How will she do this without access to the portal?

QUANTUM (Portal Chronicles Book Three)

A whole year has passed. It’s October again… or is it?

As California teen Arizona Darley contemplates traveling back through the portal to seek out her dad, her life is plunged into a whirlwind ride through the unknown.

But this time, she doesn't disappear through the portal.

Has Arizona been kidnapped–again? Is Raj Sen to blame? Could Dillard have taken her?

As Kellan, David, and her parents launch a frantic search with the help of the Wanderers, it becomes apparent that things are much more complex than they seem–for all of them. While investigating her daughter's latest disappearance, Olivia faces shocking revelations about the Wanderers and her life with Rupert.

In the meantime, what's happening in New Jersey? Are both of Arizona's worlds about to collide?

MOMENTUM (Portal Chronicles Book Four)