Fiction
OTHERWORLD: THE WHITE RAVEN
Upper MG Fantasy • 75,000 words
Guided to a mysterious amulet by a quirky white raven, 13-year-old Eleanor is suddenly haunted by visions of her twin sister, Hannah. Eleanor has three problems with this: Hannah is dead; Eleanor can’t remember how she died; and she believes in science, not magic. On Halloween, Eleanor chases an apparition of Hannah, weirdly dressed as an ancient warrioress, hoping to discover the truth about her sister’s death. Instead, she falls into a mythical world where puritanical rivers flow and trees grow secrets.
Eleanor’s arrival in Pryderi sets a prophecy in motion that binds her to the amulet’s owner, Branwen, Daughter of Llŷr. Eleanor must return the amulet and help Branwen destroy the vengeful demigod, Balor who has very recently captured Balor. He seeks the amulet because, as one of the Gifts of Life, it can restore his immortality. But Eleanor has zero interest in saving Branwen—until she discovers that they could be twins.
Believing Branwen to be an incarnation of Hannah, Eleanor races to rescue her. Together, they must solve an impossible prophecy and find the elemental Gifts of Life before Balor get his talons on them (how does one catch a falling star in the moonlit sky?). If they fail time will stop forever, Pryderi will fall, and Eleanor will never get 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:
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis) • A Royal Guide to Monster Slaying (Kelley Armstrong) • The Last Windwitch (Jennifer Adam) • The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone (Jaclyn Moriarty) • A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'Engle) • Doctor Who