The Well of Tears: Book Two of The Crowthistle Chronicles

"The beautiful maiden Jewel is the center of her parent's joy. She is the embodiment of their true love, and she has grown up surrounded by peace and love in abundance." "Jewel's world cruelly shatters when her parents are suddenly killed, and she and her uncle Eoin are forced to flee. Leaving the only home she has ever known, Jewel learns that her parents, caught in a tangle of a tragic prophecy, had hidden in the marshland for years to protect the secret knowledge that Jewel is the last of the line of the Janus Jaravhor, the dreaded sorcerer of Strang. That she might be the one person in the world who could unlock the mysterious Dome that is told to hold all of Janus's secrets. And that King Maolmordha now knows of her existence and will stop at nothing to find her." Her world shattered by the untimely deaths of her parents, Jewel learns that she is the last surviving member of a family line containing a mystical power sought by the evil King Uabhar.