In the second novel of The Pariah Child series, nothing is as it was before..."Lyrica is at war."This is the message Sarah receives after having left the mythical world Lyrica nearly three years ago. She is no longer a timid thirteen-year-old and has learned to survive in her small town despite the hateful gossip her neighbors spread about her.But Lyrica and the friends she met there are never far from Sarah's mind. So, when she begins to see children made of mist running through the woods and knights with odd symbols carved into their armor, Sarah wonders who these phantoms could be. And why would they reveal themselves to her? While Lyrica calls to her, Sarah's family is suddenly struck by tragedy and she finds herself having to decide between two worlds: Does she remain on earth to help her family or does she return to Lyrica to end a war?