The Bridge to Magic

Just when Magic seems all that's wrong with the world, Elika learns they've been lied to....

In Alex Thornbury’s debut YA fantasy novel, The Bridge to Magic (February 21, 2023, Shadow Lore Publishing), magic and its guardians have been banished to the deadlands and the Blight threatens mankind's survival. Terren, the last remaining city, stands alone against its relentless advance. Ever closer draws the choice they all must make: face the deadly Blight or cross the Bridge to Magic.

Elika, an orphan on Terren’s streets, hates and fears the Bridge to Magic. Like everyone else, she clings to the hope that purging every lingering echo of magic from the world can stop the Blight. Then she discovers that magic is hiding within her, and through her it seeks to enact the will of its own. Everything Elika knew about her past shatters as long-buried secrets about her true birth emerge. Accused of being a mage, many doubt her loyalties. Elika must soon decide if she will destroy the magic inside her or cross the bridge to her own uncertain end. But what awaits them in the Deadlands where the magic roams wild?

The Bridge to Magic is a dark and intriguing story of a life between two deaths and an impossible choice to make.