The Holder’s Dominion

After her father’s death on a mountain rescue mission, Kaylie Ames watched her family shatter. In The Holder’s Dominion, she fled Tacoma for college in faraway Austin, figuring that even the worst campus drama would be a relief. But when her old friend Elliott turns up on his knees in the grocery store aisle, raving about something called a morphis, Kaylie feels compelled to enter Elliott’s unfamiliar world.

Guided by Elliott and his friends, Kaylie signs on to the massively popular online game Edannair. There she discovers a world of beautiful vistas and magical creatures, where people from all over the globe step into the roles of warriors on fantastical quests. But a real-world evil threatens the players: the mysterious Holder, leader of the elite team known as Sarkmarr, is coercing his followers into traumatic offline dares known as “morphis assignments.” To save her friends, Kaylie must infiltrate Sarkmarr and survive the Holder’s tests.

Will she find the courage there to hold her real-world family together?

April Michelle Davis spent several weeks proofreading this manuscript. Proofreading is a review of egregious errors, such as basic grammar, punctuation, spelling, and inconsistencies, and any other errors that were inserted during the design process, and proofreading is usually performed on a manuscript that has already been through developmental or copyediting and has already been laid out by a designer into page proofs. April Michelle is a professional proofreader, and she provides a last review before the manuscript is published.