OTHERWORLD: THE WHITE RAVEN
Upper MG Fantasy • 70,000 words
When thirteen-year-old Eleanor Gwynn sees a ghost of her missing twin sister, Hannah, she thinks she’s out of her scientific mind. Then she finds a strange silver amulet and is stalked by a mysterious white raven. On Halloween night, the ghostly vision of Hannah appears. But when Eleanor pursues the ghost, she finds no answers—only more questions.
Eleanor follows the apparition into a parallel world called Pryderi where trees hoard secrets, stones scream, and magic is real. The ghost of her sister is actually Branwen, Daughter of Llŷr, the rightful owner of the amulet. The white raven was sent to summon Eleanor because someone else pursues the amulet. As one of the four Gifts of Life, it can restore vengeful demigod Balor’s powers—of which he’s been recently stripped.
Eleanor refuses the call to protect the amulet. Believing that Branwen is her long-lost sister, she plans to bring her home. But Eleanor’s arrival sets a prophecy in motion and binds her to Branwen. Together, they must solve an impossible string of prophetic challenges (how does one catch a falling star in the moonlit sky?) to locate the elemental Gifts of Life before Balor finds them and fuses their power for unchecked evil.
Only a sacred sisterhood—one part science and one part magic—can unlock the secrets Eleanor and Branwen need to succeed. If they fail time will stop forever, Pryderi will fall, and Eleanor will never return home.
Outlander for tweens…
OTHERWORLD: THE WHITE RAVEN is portal fantasy that combines the immersive world-building of The Girl Who Drank the Moon with the poignant science behind The Thing About Jellyfish.
Old mythology meets new tech: OTHERWORLD was inspired by the Celtic Welsh folklore of The Mabinogion and puts a modern twist of girls in STEM on some of the earliest stories ever written.
Other comp titles include:
Lark and the Wild Hunt (Jennifer Adam) • A Royal Guide to Monster Slaying (Kelley Armstrong) The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone (Jaclyn Moriarty) • A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'Engle) • Doctor Who • The Book of Three (Lloyd Alexander)