The Brueggen Stones

Lynn is a self-assured teenager who doesn't feel like a child anymore. After all, she has a real job in a department store. But she can't identify with the adult world either. She's an 'in-between.' Then one day, after bumping her head on a Chicago sidewalk, she falls into the world of Tarth.and is plunged into the midst of a war between the kindly Stallis and the sorcerer, Gefcla. A new world has new viruses, and Lynn catches them all as she learns the Stalli language well enough to fulfill a prophetic rhyme given to Tarth by Keshua, the Healer. Although Gefcla does his best to intimidate or trick Lynn, she stubbornly obeys the instructions in the rhyme, infuriating the evil sorcerer. To what lengths will Gefcla go to wreak his vengeance on Lynn? And will Chell, the Stalli warrior, be able to stop him? Book One in the Tarth series