The "Winter Dream" Has Ended, Now Time To Wake Up In "The Lost Kingdom!"

While others were watching the Baltimore Ravens journey to a Super Bowl victory over the San Francisco 49ers, I was busy taking a journey through Richard Paul Evans' heartwarming novel, "A Winter Dream"! After accepting his father's Navy flight jacket, Joseph Jacobson is blackmailed by his older brothers into leaving the family to save his baby brother from embezzlement charges. Forced to leave behind the jacket, his family, and losing his fiancee Ashley (who won't leave town with him), Joseph--or J.J.--struggles to make a new life in a new city. Sadly, his eagerness to share his dreams is his undoing! As a matter of fact, sharing a dream with his father is what ultimately resulted in J.J.'s being forced out of the family by his jealous brothers. Sharing his dreams also gives J.J. an enemy in his new life--Peter Potts, his boss. Peter's fiancee got drunk and seduced J.J., who resisted, but was caught in a compromising position and exiled to an office where he worked with the other company "Outkasts." Eventually, he was put in a position where he was able to find love again and ultimately reunited with his brothers and parents! There's so much more to the story, but to say more would be a criminal act!As for what book I'm going to sojourn through next, "The Lost Kingdom" by Nikki Bennett sounds like a fairy tale come true! "The Lost Kingdom" tells the story of 4 misfit kids lured into another dimension by a mysterious rat named Mickey. The children find themselves in a faraway land full of danger and excitement. Their mission: defeat an evil sorcerer, hunt for a secret treasure, and help a brave knight return his kingdom to its former glory. During their incredible journey, they find courage and strength they never realized they possessed. "The Lost Kingdom" is the first book in the "Firedrake Guild" series. As a personal friend of the Bennetts, I am eager to start my "journey" to and through "The Lost Kingdom!"