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Join us for a magical afternoon reading & signing event with Wisconsin author Lynne Shaner, sharing her debut cozy fantasy novel, Journey to Everland Bay. Lynne Shaner has been captivated by fantasy, myth, and fairytales since childhood, when her mother first read Charlotte’s Web and The Wind in the Willows to her. She lives in a village in Wisconsin close enough to Lake Michigan to walk to the shoreline every day. Shelves overflowing with books line her home, and there is always a knitting project on her needles. She lives with her husband and Merlin, her small, adorable pup. When not writing, she can be found reading and knitting in her garden, where she grows herbs and flowers and story ideas. Her prior poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous literary magazines. She holds a master’s degree in creative writing, fiction, from Johns Hopkins. This is her first novel.
About Journey to Everland Bay
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.
Daughter of a gentle part elf-fae mother and a father with fiery dragon blood, an unusual combination even in the magical world, ten years after her mother’s sudden death, she is working at a major museum in DC, where magic is all but outlawed. Her father wants her to assimilate and live without magic, but Jemma is determined to fully embrace her heritage.
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.
A Heroine’s Journey for our times.
“A beautifully engaging fantasy teeming with dragons, fae, magic, and the importance of family and friendship. A joy to read from beginning to end.”
– Julie Boglisch, author of The Elifer Chronicles
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Lion's Mouth Bookstore, 211 N. Washington Street,Green Bay,WI,United States
