Shadowbridge

"One of fantasy's most challenging thinkers, who also knows how to tell a top-notch story." Karen Traviss, New York Times bestselling author of City of Pearl Sprung from a timeless dream, Shadowbridge is a world of linked spans arching high above glittering seas. It is a world of parading ghosts, inscrutable gods, and dangerous magic. Most of all, it is a world of stories. No one knows those stories better than Leodora, a young shadow-puppeteer who travels Shadowbridge collecting the intertwining tales and myths of each place she passes through, then retells them in performances whose genius has begun to attract fame . . . and less welcome attention. For Leodora is fleeing a violent past, as are her two companions: her manager, Soter, an elderly drunkard who also served Ledora's father, the legendary puppeteer Bardsham; and Diverus, her musical accompanist, a young man who has been blessed, and perhaps cursed, by the touch of a nameless god. Now, as the strands of a destiny she did not choose begin to tighten around her, Leodora is about to cross the most perilous bridge of allthe one leading from the past to the future. Shadowbridge is the first novel in a two-book adventure. Praise for Gregory Frost "Frost demonstrates his mastery of the short story form in what will surely rank as one of the best fantasy collections of the year." Publishers Weekly (starred review), on Attack of the Jazz Giants and Other Stories "Suspenseful . . . hard to put down . . . will stay with the reader for a long time." BookPage, on Fitcher's Brides

Gregory Frost is currently the Fiction Writing Workshop director at Swarthmore College.