The Pearl Blossom Heart

<p><strong><em>Inspired by the Scottish High King Selbach mac Fherchair Fota a girl must brave a war that has torn her family apart.</em></strong></p><p>Thirteen-year-old Maura lives in the remote mountainside where she spends her days with goats and admiring the sky. But her two older sisters are sick and their illness worsens when a stranger crosses the mountains that she thought were unclimbable. </p><p>Maura is thrust into an outside world engulfed by war. Guided by a mother she has never met a kind boy with a dire wolf pup and her sisters' story of the pearl blossom heart Maura must find her long-lost father to end the war before it reaches her mountain home.</p><p>However the journey has its own risks and Maura will have to decide whether to fulfill her destiny or give up on her sisters.</p>