Ash to Ashes - Chronicles of Ash, #0

An introduction to a nine-book series, the fantasy is a steampunk-inspired series of stories of Ashleigh Peters, a young woman from Brooklyn that finds herself sucked into the world of Eleusis. It begins with Ashleigh's last days on Earth and we meet her family, learn of her life in Brooklyn, and what she leaves behind as she is transported to this new world.