"In 'The Land of the Blue Jasmine' is an extraordinary first novel that brings back the old-worldly charm of story telling as it conjures characters out of thin air and creates a world of magic and mystery. It is an adventure story woven around the eternal theme of the struggle of good over evil. It is about the joy of music and of love, of death and of letting go.

A little girl has to avenge the death of her parents. She must travel to the neither-here-nor-there secret place hidden in shadows and whispers. There, in the Land of the Blue Jasmine, she must find and destroy the Serpent. Armed only with a flute, she sets out on a journey to put aside the ghosts of the past that haunt her. The voyage turns out to be more than she bargained for as the final battle draws her into the mystery and the dangers of self-discovery."