To Mom and Dad For opening the door to this magical faraway place that’s always nearby and for giving us the freedom to truly explore with much love and gratitude j
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Chapter 1 ANywHERE buT HERE o Adelaide awoke with a start and looked around her shadowy bedroom trying to get oriented It was the middle of the night and she’d had a nightmare again but not the usual kind There were no monsters trying to get her no cliffs she was falling from It was quite the opposite It was that her father was still alive and they were plan ning to go on a hike and an adventure together just the two of them But that couldn’t be she thought as she lay back on her pillow staring into the blackness Her father had died almost a year 3
