Lily Procter is allergic to her life. She usually runs a temperature over 100° F, but something as simple as lunch can send her into convulsions and result in a coma. Her childhood best friend, Tristan, has helped her through everything up to high school. And Lily has had a crush on him as long as she can remember, as high school seniors in Salem Massachusetts they are only just exploring the idea of a romantic relationship.
At her first high school party, Tristan has to deal with an ex-girlfriend and leaves Lily with a fellow classmate. The boy spikes Lily's drink which causes a seizure and her abject humiliation. At the edge of consciousness, Lily discovers her lifelong friend has as little regard for her as a romantic partner as he had for previous girlfriends. When a voice in her head asks Lily if she wants to leave her world for a world where she would have power, Lily accepts and is torn into another plane where magic exist and she has a mirror image ruling the world.
The lost girl finds that Lilian wants to use her for some secret purpose and flees into the city. Salem Massachusetts of Lillian's universe is a cross between medieval and modern technology. What science has spent centuries learning in Lily's world was discovered through magic over the course of decades. Lily appears to have been pulled into a brewing conflict. Lillian directs Lily to her most powerful Mechanic and Rowan reluctantly trains the mirror of Lillian.
Lily is not Lillian: she believes in the basic American tenets of equality and success through work ethic, exploration, and development. Lily believes in helping Lillian's world as she finds friendship and romance, but her ultimate dream is to return home to her family and the world she grew up in.
With some mature content and vivid violence Trial by Fire is intended for teen and young adult readers. It is the first of the novels: Lily struggles with her beliefs and experiences in a new world, very similar to her own. Will she ever make it home? Does she really want to?
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