The Portal – Junction 2020: Book 1
New Year's Eve, 2019.
Mari Stratton attends a New Year's Eve party with her brother Randall and her hearing-impaired friend Lauren. A collecting game begins in the dark fields outside prior to the celebration countdown. When midnight strikes, Mari finds herself and four others propelled by a violent green storm into a confusing landscape of beauty, danger, and mystery.
In this place, ruthless black-cloaked riders on horseback called Shifters comb the countryside hunting them down. Why is this world patterned after the things Mari adores, and why does it feature the hideous things she fears the most? More importantly--how will she and the others get back to the real world?
This novel is the first of a 5-part series, with each book written from the viewpoint of one of the five main characters as the story progresses: Mari, Tony, Lauren, Randall, and Stefanie.
About Carol Riggs (Portland, Oregon Author)
Carol Riggs is an author of Young Adult fiction who lives in the beautiful, green state of Oregon, USA. Her books include The Body Institute, Bottled, The Lying Planet, and Books 1 and 2 of the Junction 2020 series. She is a longtime active member of the SCBWI.
Carol enjoys reading, drawing and painting, writing conferences, walking with her husband, and enjoying music and dance of all kinds. You will usually find her in her writing cave, surrounded by her dragon collection and the characters in her head.
