Journey to Everland Bay – Official Book Trailer

Publication Date: April 25, 2024!

Jemma Avalon, an unconventional mage-in-training, longs to return to Everland Bay, her ancestral homeland, and find a way to join the renowned magical research institute there, like the women in her family before her.

When an ordinary day at the museum takes an
extraordinary turn, Jemma is rocketed to an Everland Bay Institute under violent siege, where dark-arts mages threaten everything important to her. Once there, she joins forces with her companions and works feverishly to save Everland Bay from crumbling under enemy attack. In so doing, she finds a path to her own strength and mastery, and her heart’s true home.

The book is available!. 

Praise for Journey to Everland Bay

The prologue sets the reader up for a smooth ride into a new world where fae, elf, human, dragons, and magic dwell. So realistic I could relate immediately. As the story moves deeper, the blend of real world and magic is both exciting and comfortable. Magic appears, weaving in and out of characters and settings with astonishing ease, taking readers along for the ride.
Mary Ann Noe author of Water the Color of Slate
For those of us forced to accept that our Hogwarts letter is sadly never going to arrive, Lynne Shaner’s new book, Journey to Everland Bay, is an opportunity to find magic in the everyday world again. And what magic it is! From knitting bags that transform into a wearable bracelet, to tiny pocket fairies, to a dragon that can scale her size down smaller than a teacup or up as large as a house. I want to sit and enjoy a cup of tea with so many of these characters. I’m just going to have to move to Everland Bay!
Carrie Newberry author of Pick Your Teeth with my Bones
and Wolf is a Four-Letter Word
I want a pocket faerie!  And a scrying stone, and a grove of flutewood trees, and all the other tools and abilities that the mages here have at their command in Journey to Everland Bay. What a wonderful—and credible—world Lynne Shaner has created. She makes magic seem the norm in this classic tale of good versus evil while weaving in parallels to the very real world we humans inhabit. I shuddered at the politics and strife that so sadly reflect our society and delighted in the science she so deftly incorporates. A job well done, with the happy promise of more to come in this new series.
Patricia Skalka Author, the Dave Cubiak Door County Mysteries
A magical journey full of whimsy, discovery, family drama, betrayal, and redemption. If you loved the magical world of Harry Potter and long for a new, enchanting place to call home, you should give Journey to Everland Bay a try.
Ross Hightowerauthor of Spirit Sight
Jouney to Everland Bay weaves the contemporary world into a magical world with originality and urgency. It is like a battle between fast-moving steel and slowly falling rose petals, never forgetting the cost of progress or what true destruction looks like. It is iridescent at its core, a shimmering and ethereal reminder that sometimes, the old ways are best.
Del Blackwaterauthor of Dead Egyptians

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