The Gatekeeper

Patience Robinsonis a fifteen year old African American teen, abused, terrified but obligated to endure the torment and gilt of the sudden passing of her beloved grandmother. Her guilt causes her to struggle to survive the physical and emotional abuse from her grief-stricken uncle Trevor and fraternal twelve year old twin brothers Theo and Marcus. She hates her life and frustrated and broken she plots to escape but the plantation will never let her leave. She is the fourth geeration of a powerful lineage of Gatekeepers born to serve a world of which she has no knowledge. The ancestors and land can never let her go, so she is suddenly taken into a mystical world experiences a physical transformation. She is terrified of this world and hates what's she's become. The inhabitants of this world fear her because of the world she came from and her transformation into a new species. Both fear and loathe each other but their survival is dependent on their embracing each other. Patience's transformation will not only save herself but be the salvation for all who once feared her. - Joy Peterson, Author.