Life can change in the space between one breath and the next. Sometimes you don't even know it has happened.
It’s Skye’s seventeenth birthday. Her parents are missing, and everyone is in a terrible hurry to declare her an orphan. When Skye starts asking questions about what really happened to her parents, all the carefully constructed lies that held her life together begin to fall apart. She finds herself thrust into a mythical world, peopled by changelings and gods, where stories shape reality and memories are so tangible you can literally step into them.
Join Skye as she embarks on a quest to discover the truth about her parents, her destiny, and the power of stories.
At the heart of The Storyteller’s Daughter lies the legend of the seannachie (pronounced "shawn-aw-key"), the traditional storytellers and myth-keepers of the Scottish clans. Combining realism and fantasy, readers are drawn into a world at once familiar and unsettling. Gods and mythical creatures walk in this world, brought there by Skye’s mother, a seannachie who has become spellbound by a story that allows her to escape from a tragedy she cannot face. Skye and her two best friends set out on a quest to rescue her—even if she no longer wants to be saved.
It’s Skye’s seventeenth birthday. Her parents are missing, and everyone is in a terrible hurry to declare her an orphan. When Skye starts asking questions about what really happened to her parents, all the carefully constructed lies that held her life together begin to fall apart. She finds herself thrust into a mythical world, peopled by changelings and gods, where stories shape reality and memories are so tangible you can literally step into them.
Join Skye as she embarks on a quest to discover the truth about her parents, her destiny, and the power of stories.
At the heart of The Storyteller’s Daughter lies the legend of the seannachie (pronounced "shawn-aw-key"), the traditional storytellers and myth-keepers of the Scottish clans. Combining realism and fantasy, readers are drawn into a world at once familiar and unsettling. Gods and mythical creatures walk in this world, brought there by Skye’s mother, a seannachie who has become spellbound by a story that allows her to escape from a tragedy she cannot face. Skye and her two best friends set out on a quest to rescue her—even if she no longer wants to be saved.
Bertram was designed and illustrated by John Plantus, originally from Windsor Ontario. He attended the Vancouver film school, and has an MA in film studies from York University. He currently teaches at Fanshawe College in London. He is an incredible professor and an artist extraordinaire.
