Alexandre Jones

Stella Byrd and the Silver Shadow Alexandre Jones

While living with her tv-addled Aunt Joan, luckless Stella Byrd is amazed to find that she has a luminous and magical silver shadow. With the help of her funny, if enigmatic, school janitor, Stella quickly realizes that her magic shadow has everything to do with her father's imprisonment for a botched bank robbery and her mother's inexplicable disappearance. Secrets reveal deeper and deeper secrets. After two goofy mercenaries try to slice off her shadow with a counterfeit magic sword and a giant reaches up from a puddle to kidnap her best friend, Stella has no other choice than to embark on a perilous adventure to the magical land of Slaandia. There she develops a friendship with a Slaandian girl named Carolina Finder. Together they face hideous enemies and act upon the most difficult of decisions along a thrilling and dangerous odyssey of discovery. In Slaandia, Stella will not only find her true voice, but also the truth of who she is and what has become of her beloved family. Volume One of The Otherworldly Adventures of Stella Byrd and Carolina Finder