Deep in the Dark Forest a tiny fairy is losing her battle to fly through a massive storm. Exhausted, she can barely move her wings as wind-blown branches and sheets of drenching water drive her ever closer to the flooded forest floor. Certain she is about to drown, she tenses her muscles and shuts her eyes. But instead of rushing water, she feels long, thorn-covered vines wrap around her and pull her back. She opens her eyes to discover she is held by a huge thorn bush. Only the bush isn't there to save her. It is there to deliver her to her deadliest enemy. 

Deep in the Dark Forest a tiny fairy is losing her battle as she flies through a massive storm. Exhausted, she can barely move her wings while wind-blown branches and sheets of drenching water drive her ever closer to the flooded forest floor. Certain she is about to drown, she tenses her muscles and shuts her eyes. But instead of rushing water, she feels long thorn-covered vines wrap around her and pull her back. Only the thorn bush isn't there to save her. It is there to deliver her to her deadliest enemy.

Thus begins the quest of Autumn Primrose, a quest in which the youthful future queen of the Fairy Realm is forced to confront her family’s greatest enemy, the same enemy that killed her parents. But can Autumn truly transform from gentle healer to fierce warrior? 

Cheryl Braginsky has always been a story teller, first as a journalist, and then as a classroom teacher. Today she brings together the skills she learned in both professions to write books for children. The natural environments of the California coast and Pacific Northwest inspire and inhabit the worlds she creates. Cheryl and her husband live in Portland, Oregon.