Bil Franks

Caylith and her friends are on the run after arriving home to find her ancestral villa burned and her mother captured or killed. Now the sixteen-year-old must escape the forces of the Duke of Deva with her armsman Fletcher and her best friend Brindl to a most unlikely place—the land of Faerie, which she had thought existed only in fanciful tales.
Caylith starts a regimen of combat training with Brindl and the marine forces and soon discovers she has a certain power over the plants. Using her new-found skills, Caylith and the friends she meets in Faerie go back to Britannia on a life-altering mission. Through magic like Walking Between Worlds and Owl Sight, she and her friends must confront those who have brought sorrow and destruction to her world.
At last, with only a two-foot stick as her defense, can a young girl use her wits to conquer an evil force that even magic has not been able to end?