Rising Calm

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Traveling to New Worlds and Becoming a New You Kellie Elmore, a famous author, once stated, “Sometimes the only way to find yourself, is to get completely lost.” Cara Weaver’s quest throughout the novel Rising Calm, by Haley Fisher, is exactly what she needs to find herself and realize who she is meant to be. To succeed in her prophecy, Cara must be daunting and wise. She has to overcome obstacles and protect the ones she loves the most all while trying to save a world no one knows exists.
Ever since she was a child, Cara Weaver has been the mother to her baby sister Sophie. Her parents are always at work, coming home late and leaving early, always moving their family around. Cara, at the age of seventeen, has lived in seven different states, when she finally turns up in Kansas. While attending Shawnee Mission East High School, Cara soon befriends Jade Thatcher and Max Fedderman. Not much later is she introduced to Crispin and James, the two new senior boys who never talk. Until they meet Cara. Soon Cara is the center of attention, everyone is wondering what is so special about her and she is wondering
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Cara passes out and wakes in the middle of a forest. Crispina and James help her travelt rhough this new world named Lyria, where instead of technology they have magic. The bolys lead hger to a castle where Crispin is the crown prince and James is her werewolf body guard. Cara soon finds herself in the middle of a prophecy where she is the savior of this new world and falling for James, but Cara doesn’t know if she can accept the prophecy. For one nobody know where she is, and who will take care of Sophie while she’s gone for who knows how long. Also, she is not confident enough in herself that she is the one this prophecy speaks of. Will she be the savior she was meant to be? Or will she let fear overtake

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