Discover the Magic of The Shadow Atlas: A Complete Fantasy Series!
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The Shadow Atlas Series by Jenny Sandiford
The Shadow Atlas trilogy is a must-read urban fantasy set at a secret magic academy at the Tower of London.
Embark on a spellbinding journey filled with dangerous secrets, entwined lives, and forbidden magic. Perfect for those seeking a darker, university aged Harry Potter.
Step into a hidden world of dark magic today . . .
For Lovers of
🌙 Secret magic academies
📖 Slow-burn romance
✨ Forbidden magic
🌙 Lovable cat companions
📖 Magical sentient books
✨ Brooding mages
🌙 Necromancy
📖 Fantastic world-building
✨ Hidden magical communities
🌙 Elemental magic
📖 Iconic Tower of London setting
✨ Shadow Magic
🌙 Self-centered gods
📖 Forbidden romance
The Shadow Atlas Trilogy
Book #1- Initiate
Welcome to the Tower of London, where dark magic always comes with a price. . .
Uncontrollable Shadow Magic, pleas from her dead father, a mysterious enchanted book, and enemies at her door.
Eighteen-year-old Azalea Sharp thinks life can’t get any worse until she is driven into hiding at a secret magic school in the Tower of London. Struggling to hide her dark secrets, Azalea quickly learns that not all magic is equal.
Then she meets the enigmatic Torin Dumont, a notorious shadow mage with secrets of his own. With more than her own life at stake, will his help be enough?
Or will the darkness she brought forth unleash itself on London?
Initiate is a spellbinding new adult urban fantasy and the first book in the Shadow Atlas series.
Perfect for those seeking a darker, university aged Harry Potter.
Book #2- Apprentice
A bond that could change the fate of the world…
Azalea Sharp just wishes her life would go back to normal. But what’s normal when you’re being hunted by the House of Ravens and spirits are using you as a doorway to another world?
Forced to apprentice to a Shadow Mage she wants nothing to do with, Azalea must put aside the past and join his hunt for a set of powerful relics to prevent a dangerous gateway opening to the Echo Dimension.
But fate has other ideas, and Azalea grows closer to the man she desperately wants to hate. To save the world from an onslaught of destructive magic, she is forced to make a choice: let him sacrifice himself or watch the world burn.
Apprentice is the gripping sequel to Initiate in this new adult urban fantasy series.
Book #3- Captive
Beyond the Mortal Realm, Fate Awaits
As the world descends into chaos, Azalea and Torin's lives depend on keeping their bond and newfound abilities under wraps. But being trapped at Blackbourne Manor with powerful mages and inquisitive friends and family isn’t helping.
Desperate to restore the balance of magic, their only hope lies in the mysterious Echo Dimension and its ancient gods. Or so they think.
When Azalea uncovers the long-lost Shadow Dimension gateway, she must make a choice. Follow Torin and Fabian on their quest for divine aid or take the darker path to strike a deal with the devil herself.
As magic's fate hangs in balance, can they trust these dangerous gods and make it back alive?
Immerse yourself once again in the enthralling urban fantasy world of the Shadow Atlas series, with the third installment, Captive!
The Shadow Atlas Prequel
Prequel #0.5- House of Ravens
Something dark awoke inside him…
Sixteen-year-old Torin will be a shadow mage; it’s his destiny. But when he discovers his father’s legacy is built on lies and innocent blood, Torin’s eyes are opened to a dark new reality. And he wants no part of it.
But, in a cruel twist of fate, Torin manifests a rare Shadow Magic power—killing with the touch of his hand—and becomes a pawn for his father’s vengeance.
With blood on his hands and a future paved with death, Torin must make a choice—betray his father and do what is right, or take on his dark legacy and become the monster he’s been running from. . .
House of Ravens is a dark, coming of age, urban fantasy, and the captivating prequel to The Shadow Atlas series.
The Shadow Atlas Boxed Set
The Shadow Atlas Trilogy is a must-read urban fantasy filled with dangerous secrets, entwined lives, and forbidden magic. Perfect for those seeking a darker, university aged Harry Potter.
Boxed Set Includes the Complete Shadow Atlas Trilogy
Initiate (The Shadow Atlas #1)
Apprentice (The Shadow Atlas #2)
Captive (The Shadow Atlas #3)
Step into a hidden world of dark magic and binge read the complete series today!
Houses of Magic
Thousands of years ago, gods walked amongst the mortals of this world.
Two types of magic divided them:
Echo Magic- light magic sourced from the Echo Dimension.
Shadow Magic- dark magic sourced from the Shadow Dimension.
When it came time for humanity to stand on its own, the gods and goddesses, now known by many names, returned to their dimensions, but not without leaving their mark on the world.
The deities bestowed gifts of unique powers on chosen families around the globe, and so the Houses of Magic were created.
But over time, many of these gifts were lost. Humans, weakened by their need for power and dominance, destroyed all but eight of the great Houses.
Four Shadow Magic Houses and four Echo Magic Houses are all that remain.
Today, their legacies live on . . .
— Initiate, The Shadow Atlas #1
Houses of Magic Inspiration
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Mythology
Before…
Thousands of years ago, the gods abandoned the mortal world and left behind two gateways: one to the Shadow Dimension, whose location remains unknown, and another to the Echo Dimension, whose secret was entrusted to the keepers of twelve jade animal relics.
As the deities departed, they entrusted a warrior from each House of magic with the protection of one relic.
The Echo Dimension gate was sealed, never to be opened unless all Houses came together in peace and with great need. The warriors dispersed throughout the world, while the Shadow Dimension deities vanished without a word in the darkness of night.
Over time, the memory of the gods and relics faded into myth. The truth was lost to ancient history.
Until now…
— Apprentice Prologue, The Shadow Atlas #2
Inanna’s Descent to the Underworld
A Sumerian Myth
Thousands of years ago there were two sisters, Inanna, goddess of love, sex, and war, Queen of the Echo Dimension, and Ereshkigal, goddess of death and the dead, Queen of the Shadow Dimension.
Ereshkigal mourned the death of her husband, Gugalanna, and invited her sister Inanna to her realm to witness the funeral rites.
Inanna agreed to make the journey and flew on her white dragon to the entrance in a hidden cave, but her motives were not pure. As she passed through the seven gates of the underworld, she shed her lapis lazuli rod, her glorious crown, her white and gold robes, her beads, and her precious gold bangles. She left all that she owned until she arrived naked at the banks of the inky Eridan River.
At the water’s edge, her sister waved from the other side, dressed in black mourning garments with an obsidian crown and eyes lined in kohl.
But Ereshkigal knew of Inanna’s plot to steal her throne. Ereshkigal watched her sister cross the churning river in the Maglium Boat. But when Inanna stepped to the shore, Ereshkigal killed her with Shadow Magic—the hand of death—and hung her corpse on a hook by the Eridan for all to see.
Inanna was mourned by mortals and gods alike, though not by her husband, Dumuzi. The god Enki summoned two strong gallu to retrieve Inanna’s body, and they revived her with mystical waters.
Ereshkigal cursed and raged, but she could not defy Enki’s wish. She made a deal that Inanna could leave, but to maintain balance, one must take her place.
Inanna offered up her husband, Dumuzi, the shepherd god, as he clearly had no love for his wife. Returning to her position as Queen of the Echo Dimension, Inanna left Dumuzi to spend half the year in the Underworld. The other six months, his sister, Geshtinanna, the goddess of agriculture, took his place. It was her absence and return that created the cycle of changing seasons within the mortal world.
Inanna and Ereshkigal remained manipulative and untrusting rivals for thousands of years. But a shift in the dimensions heralded great change…
— Captive Prologue, The Shadow Atlas #3
Settings
Inspiration
Maps of the Tower of London
The Shadow Atlas Riddles
The Shadow Atlas Glossary
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Jenny grew up in small town New Zealand on a steady diet of fairytales and fantasy books. She lived in Mongolia for nine years with her husband where they spent the unfrozen months of the year living on the edge of the Gobi Desert mining gold.
When she isn’t writing, Jenny enjoys hiking, meeting new animals, and loves to curl up in a sunny corner with a cup of tea, a cat, and a book.
She lives in Darwin, Australia, with her husband and their two street cats from Mongolia.
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