The book also received the title of B.R.A.G. Lumière, the first novel in her Illumination Paradox series, won the prestigious 2013 LYRA award for Best Young Adult Novel and an Indie B.R.A.G. A teacher in her former life, she’s now an author of the very books she loves to read: young adult, new adult, and women’s fiction. Garlick loves strong heroines, despises whiny sidekicks, and adores good stories about triumphant underdogs. These scenes are an intended nod to Carroll's original works (now in the public domain) which I dearly love, continue to be for me, unyielding source of inspiration. NOTE: This book contains an homage to Lewis Carroll and his infamous characters, especially Alice, who visited me from Wonderland as a child and spurred me on. A swashbuckling, nail-biting, romantic adventure, filled with mechanical beings and puzzling happenings, with a shocking, otherworldly conclusion. Soleil is the third and final installment of the long-awaited Illumination Paradox Series. Could the Vapours really be what they appear to be? Along the way, the pair unearth a sinister truth. In a race against time, they embark on a harrowing journey through the hellfires of Embers, where they meet up with the resurrected form of a familiar enemy-now the leader of the Dark World. Together, Eyelet and Urlick brave the toxic woods to battle an Infirmed Flossie for the stolen necklace. She must drink her father’s antidote, or perish. He whisks him off to the Academy where it becomes clear Eyelet is running out of time. The townspeople immediately label him a sorcerer and call for his death, but Urlick trusts the stranger. Out of the mist appears an unusual man, claiming to possess the power to heal Eyelet.

With Eyelet gasping in his arms and a toxic storm threatening to annihilate the Commonwealth, Urlick must find a way to save his beloved, and fast. Losing her would send him spiraling into darkness. Revised edition: This edition of Soleil includes editorial revisions.

Lumiere by Jacqueline Garlick