WARNING! This question is very long but your opinion on my story will help me GREATLY! Thank you! =)

I'm writing a fantasy series set in modern times about a boy named Ryan Sheppard who lived in Seattle with his grandmother since his parents were killed when he was ten, the year before. He'd attacked by a horrendous creature but saved by a tall man with dark hair who brings him to his Grandmother's house and explains to Ryan that his parents actually lived in a different world on the Olympic peninsula in Washington, but were forced to go into hiding after the Great War as they were accused of murdering the Antagonist of the series, Lord Elathan Blackwood. They did kill Blackwood, but few people at the time realized how evil Blackwood was, and that he and his army called the Dark Order were trying to raise the army of Syrens (more commonly spelled Sirens in our world) to take over. Of course, the Syrens weren't woken from their prison (which is a dark lake), but the Government had to blame someone for the destruction Blackwood had caused. They couldn't blame Blackwood as he'd worked in and had many contacts with the Olympic world's Government, so they blamed the small group of people (including Ryan's parents) who were trying to stop the Dark Order. The man also told Ryan that his Grandmother wasn't his Grandmother... just then, the old woman who Ryan had lived with flew into the room, screeching... she was the same type of monster that had tried to kill Ryan earlier that same day. Ryan flees with the man who'd called himself Scott. Scott took the half-councious Ryan to a forest in a park in Seattle, told Ryan to hold onto what looked like a large marble with swirling blue smoke in it, then pushed him through two intertwined trees. Ryan immediately appeared in a tavern alongside Scott, where they stopped to eat. Ryan (who was obviously quite shaken) demanded Scott tell him what was going on. Scott told him more about how the Olympic World was similar to our world, but instead of electricity, they had different types of energy that people themselves could harness. The type of energy (that was in the marble-like object that Scott had given him) was a sort of magic. The Olympic World began in Medieval Europe and part of Asia. It was a hidden world there as well, with magical creatures and objects, but after America was discovered, many of the people from the Olympic World fled to America after the witch burnings (which they were the victims of even though they weren't witches, although witches did live in the Olympic World.) The Olympic National Forest was actually sort of the capitol of the Olympic World, the Capitol building being the Emerald tower. Ryan was told of many other things about this world, and then Scott revealed that he was Ryann's father's brother and that he could live with Scott if he wanted to. Ryan agreed and then was told he'd go to a school there, the coming month.

The series is going to be about the next Eight years of Ryan's life.Over the next few years Ryan makes seven close friends and learns more about that 'world's past, especially about the war in which his parents had fought bravely, but then accused wrongly. In his first year there, Ryan meets the man that was behind the war and who his parents 'murdered' and who killed his parents in return, Blackwood. He had bathed in an evil pool of black water made by Sirens ensuring that he wouldn't die completely if killed. Although, he needed to complete the ritual so as to raise the army of Sirens and become immortal. (This is the main plot over the next few years, and then in the fourth book, Blackwood is able to become more than the weak soul he was, he gets a body, and begins the process of immortality, but was interrupted by Ryan, which resulted in Ryan becoming seriously injured, but seriously gifted. In the end, Elathan rises to full power, overthrowing the Government and killing many people, but there are still a few people who are rebelling, as he has yet to raise the Syrens. A great battle ensues and Ryan and Blackwood fight. One of Ryan's friends dies to save Ryan from Blackwood, who dies at Ryans hand.

Question Two (much shorter, I promise) is about the name of the Town where the school is located and most of the books takes place. I think a suitable name for the town is Sparkwood. Does that sound like a good name?