Winterbloom

Children of the Shaman #4

by Jessica Rydill

Sophie Vasilyevich is a teenager growing up in Anglond, the child of exiles. Sometimes grass springs up where she walks, and her future holds an unusual fate: she is going to be kidnapped when she is sixteen, and no one can stop it.
Taken between worlds to the city of Bath in 1920’s England, Sophie meets a young man called James Carnwallis, once a pilot in the Great War. But even as she falls in love, she learns more about the forces at work – and her fate in their plans.
As an alliance of shamans, ghosts and gods assembles in a desperate attempt to recover Sophie and prevent the destruction of their worlds, they find that their only hope may lie in Sophie’s gift, and in the Greenwood: a power older than time itself.

319 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 25, 2019

About the author

Jessica Rydill is a British fantasy author from Bath. Born in 1959, she studied English at King's College, Cambridge before qualifying as a solicitor. She travelled a lot in her twenties. Orbit Books published her first novel, Children of the Shaman, in 2001, and Locus magazine short-listed it for best first novel. Sequel The Glass Mountain appeared in October 2002.
From 2017-2021, small press Grimbold Books reissued both books, with sequels Malarat and Winterbloom.
Jessica's most recent book, The Girl from the Sea, came out in 2019.
Jessica lives near Bath with her husband and her crew of Ball-jointed dolls or BJD, which aren't creepy. Though they can be badly behaved...
Visit Jessica's web-site at www.shamansland.com to learn about the shamanworld.