Shutterbox Series by Rosearik Rikki Simons, Tavisha Wolfgarth-Simons

When Megan Amano dreams, she journeys to a place called Merridiah University, one of the afterlife's premier educational institutes. There she studies as an exchange student, learning the skills necessary to become a living muse. Traditionally, only spirits attend the University, where they are educated before being reborn into the world of the living. However, Megan is still alive. She attends college in Santa Monica, California by day and Merridiah University at night... moreWhen Megan Amano dreams, she journeys to a place called Merridiah University, one of the afterlife's premier educational institutes. There she studies as an exchange student, learning the skills necessary to become a living muse. Traditionally, only spirits attend the University, where they are educated before being reborn into the world of the living. However, Megan is still alive. She attends college in Santa Monica, California by day and Merridiah University at night. One day, she finds mysterious pictures from the dream world in her digital camera. They reveal a mystery so deep that Megan is compelled to question her very existence and set forth on a quest to find the answers. less

[View Chapter 1 at URL] Megan awakens from a dream to find that she's back in Merridiah University and now attending the afterlife school as a full-time, living exchange student.But she'd better be careful... there are certain rules here that must never be broken. When Megan starts her first-quarter classes to become a living muse, she soon discovers that Dane is out to get her expelled-- and in the afterlife, expulsion carries a frightfully high price.

While AJ works to distract Dane's minions, and keep them from erasing Megan's soul, Megan has fallen into a trance, writing journal after journal, and becoming more and more absorbed with the idea of becoming a living muse. This would be fine under normal circumstances, but Megan is delaying her vital mission. She must remove the Banshee from Lewis Carroll's Author Urn, or she will be doomed... moreWhile AJ works to distract Dane's minions, and keep them from erasing Megan's soul, Megan has fallen into a trance, writing journal after journal, and becoming more and more absorbed with the idea of becoming a living muse. This would be fine under normal circumstances, but Megan is delaying her vital mission. She must remove the Banshee from Lewis Carroll's Author Urn, or she will be doomed.Thomas, the University's Disembodied President, takes the initiative and opens the urn, taking Megan down into a literal Wonderland. There they face the Banshee and fight to reclaim Megan's rightful place as the ShutterBox Exchange Student, the only living Muse at the University of the afterlife. less

While Megan and AJ wax and wane through memories of their past lives, a meeting has been called by the higher beings of Merridiah. What must they do about Megan Amano? This Human girl was only meant to be a living ShutterBox Exchange Student at their University of the afterlife. But now she has merged her soul with that of the long lost Goddess, the Muse to the Muse, Laahli, the Castle Wrecker, and if Laahli were to come into full power, it would mean the end of Merridiah University... moreWhile Megan and AJ wax and wane through memories of their past lives, a meeting has been called by the higher beings of Merridiah. What must they do about Megan Amano? This Human girl was only meant to be a living ShutterBox Exchange Student at their University of the afterlife. But now she has merged her soul with that of the long lost Goddess, the Muse to the Muse, Laahli, the Castle Wrecker, and if Laahli were to come into full power, it would mean the end of Merridiah University.Yet, Megan and AJ care little for the politics of aeons. They only want to be with each other, and to travel the expanses of Merridiah in each others' arms. That is, unless AJ's murderous brother Dane cannot stop them. less