Candle in the Wind

Elizabeth Feye had problems as a sophomore...

...many of them, all helping to make her time at Edgar Allan Poe High School a hell on earth. Short, myopic, and overweight, the only thing going for her was an immeasurable IQ (and even that caused more problems than it solved). In the end it was in Phys Ed (a class she was failing), during a volleyball game, that her real problems began, starting with her introduction to the mysterious janitor Mr. Hawkins. And through him her mundane life would disappear and the veil over her eyes would be torn free, her legacy revealed. Then the real hell began.

Thus are woven the first strands in the tapestry of the Chronicles of the Ladder Society, where nothing, and no one, is what it seems. Through four volumes and more the story continues.

Elizabeth is moved like a pawn on a chessboard with no squares and no visible opponents yet sports a knight and a queen of origin unknown. Good and Evil, ever at odds, clash on a historical field of battle, and the winner takes the world.