The Shadow World

by Erica Henderson

She promised to stay away from the other world The first book of the Shadow World series introduces the last Maiga witch and her struggle to survive despite the odds against her. Otherworld beings and humans have always lived together, but humans are not aware. The otherworld are among them, as children in Kindergartens, through to high school, until they fledge into their true nature, and join Drachenburg School. For the last wailer witch, the otherworld is a dangerous place. Orphaned at a young age, the most powerful witch in the world hides from a secret society that hunted her family to extinction. However, all fledgelings must join Drachenburg, or risk death. She chooses to risk life at the school, despite her ancestors' wishes. There she meets ethereally beautiful faeries and frighteningly violent werecats. But most terrifying of all is her Avalon friend, whose mild countenance masks true savagery.

350 pages, Paperback

Published February 13, 2023

About the author

Erica Henderson is an illustrator and animator hailing from the Big Apple.
She is graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design and has since moved north to the cold shores of Boston.