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Eighteen years old. Homeless. Alone on her birthday. Annie Harper thinks things can’t get much worse.

She’s wrong.

Sitting among the gravestones of Glasgow Necropolis with a candle stuck into a day-old muffin, Annie is interrupted by a security guard. She runs, reaches for a gravestone to steady herself—

—and falls into another world.

Now there are two suns in the sky, enormous beasts roaming the landscape and elves who have very good reasons not to trust humans.

Unfortunately, Annie has never been particularly good at trusting anyone either.

Stranded in a realm she doesn’t understand, Annie must rely on the very people she would normally keep at arm’s length. But as reluctant alliances begin turning into friendship, belonging—and an unexpected romance—she discovers something even more unsettling.

The strange, unruly power she has spent her life hiding may be connected to this world.

And this world is dying.

What began as Annie’s desperate search for a way home becomes something far bigger: a journey through ancient secrets, dangerous magic, bitter rivalries and a conflict capable of destroying entire realms.

Soon Annie must decide not only who she can trust, but how much she is prepared to sacrifice for the people who have finally given her somewhere to belong.

Perfect for readers who loved Vin’s journey from mistrust to found family in Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn: The Final Empire and the dangerous elven world, human outsider and shifting loyalties of Holly Black’s The Cruel Prince.

The Dying Realms is the first book in the Golden Fleck Series, a character-driven epic portal fantasy filled with magic, adventure, found family, romance, dangerous enemies and escalating stakes.

A most dubious claim to fame - Hil almost killed Stephen Hawking while she furiously pedalled to a uni lecture for which she was woefully late!Hil was born in Preston, Lancashire (Nick Park/Wallace and Gromit's part of the world), not quite "when God were a lad." She surprises herself, and amuses her husband, with her intense identification with her northern roots, as a Lancashire Lass.The seeds of the Golden Fleck Series unexpectedly took root during her long road to recovery from a herniated disc in her spine. While pretty incapacitated, Hil took her mind on a virtual daily run of her spaniels through the woodland close to her home - one has to preserve one's sanity somehow! The visceral shift from home to the woodland, is what gave Hil the idea of portals. While the boys were chasing after pheasants and hares, Hil's mind was chasing after Annie's story. She was curious as to why Annie was an 18 year who was homeless by choice, and explored this while fleshing out the female protagonist's character.When not immersed in writing or running her dogs (no longer virtually), you can find Hil practicing Yoga, reading, having coffee with friends, trying to teach herself classical guitar, or putting her favourite songs list on shuffle and dancing like nobody's watching.