The Gumball Empress

One moment she is cramming for a test under a tree, the next she is running for her life in an unfamiliar forest as steel arrows race toward her. Elli Clay is a typical teenager attempting to navigate the maze of adolescence until eating a not-so-ordinary gumball transports her into a different world, where she is being hunted. Her reality quickly becomes a nightmare as she learns she is a long-lost evil empress with dark powers that threaten to consume her. Stranded in a world where she is the enemy and her people are enslaved in stone quarries, she must rely on the help of tree spirits and unexpected allies in her quest to find the Guardian, who holds the key to life and death. Torn between truth and lies, love and hate, and good and evil, Elli must decide if she can open her heart to trust a young soldier. Can he help her change not only her destiny but the fate of an entire world before it’s too late?