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Alexandra Crowley enrols at the academy of a secret society in Wellington, New Zealand, searching for answers to her father's murder. What she doesn't expect is to meet a vivacious manticore named Sephy, or to be pulled into a global war. (Urban Fantasy, Young Adult.)

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How it started... and how it's going

  • I'm Sam Blood. I grew up in Auckland, New Zealand. When I was nine, I started telling bedtime stories to my godsister. These stories were about mysterious creatures from another world called Shadows.

  • Fast-forward to now and—boom—those bedtime stories turned into the Shadows Universe, comprising two series and ten books total of magical mayhem. I’ve run book launches where people draw their own Shadows—because if you can’t emotionally bond with your interdimensional alter-ego at a literary event, why even go?

    Basically: I tell stories. And I help people find their monsters—and maybe love them a little.

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Shadows Series

When Griffin Cameron, an Auckland gamer, is sucked into the Shadow world, everything he knows is turned upside down. With an irrascible dragon-parrot named Cirrus, he must escape an Empress who views the bond between counterparts as a dangerous sickness. (Portal Fantasy, Young Adult.)