Malevolent forces threaten Earth's ancient protective energies. One young girl must unlock her powers... or the planet could fall to its doom.Queensland, Australia, 2017. Eyre Lightward is still drowning in grief when her life upends. Shocked to discover her late parents were Lightworkers appointed to protect the Earth, the fourteen-year-old orphan is stunned to learn they were killed in the line of duty. And now an attack by a powerful enemy means Eyre must harness her own power before her world falls to the darkness.Sent along with her new friend to a secret group based in Australia's Blue Mountains, Eyre struggles to control her unwieldy skills in the grueling Lightworker Trials. But if she fails to enter the prized Academy of Light, the determined teen may never get to avenge her parents' senseless deaths.Can Eyre rise to embrace her magical destiny before humankind is obliterated?The Lightworker Trials is the spellbinding first book in the epic Quest for the Aura contemporary YA fantasy series. If you like gutsy heroines with cool powers, hair-raising hurdles, and page-turning action, then you'll love R.S. O'Neal's riveting tale. Buy The Lightworker Trials to shine bright in a torturous test today!