Our very own Lynne Shaner’s first novel will be published this April, and we’re doing the book launch here at the Woman’s Club!
Journey to Everland Bay is the first in a series. It tells the story of Jemma Avalon, an unconventional mage-in-training, who longs to return to Everland Bay, her ancestral homeland, and find a way to join the renowned magical research institute there, like the women in her family before her.
Jemma is the daughter of a gentle part elf-fae mother and a father with fiery dragon blood, an unusual combination even in the magical world. Ten years after her mother’s sudden death, 25-year-old Jemma is working at a major museum in DC, where magic is all but outlawed. Her father wants her to live without magic, but Jemma is determined to fully embrace her heritage.
"Journey to Everland Bay weaves the contemporary world into a magical world with originality and urgency. It is like a battle between fast-moving steel and slowly falling rose petals, never forgetting the cost of progress or what true destruction looks like. It is iridescent at its core, a shimmering and ethereal reminder that sometimes, the old ways are best.” - Del Blackwater, author of Dead Egyptians
When an ordinary day at the museum takes an extraordinary turn, Jemma is rocketed to an Everland Bay under violent siege, where dark-arts mages threaten everything important to her. Once there, she joins forces with her companions and works feverishly, in hopes of saving Everland Bay. In so doing, she finds a path to her own strength and mastery, and her heart’s true home. Focusing on second chances, unconventional paths, found family, feisty women 25-125, and the importance of friends and family, Journey to Everland Bay is a story for us all.
First Course
Seared Skin On Chicken Breast
100 Acre Salad Blend
Dragon Fruit, Roasted Red Pepper, Pickled Pea Shoots,
Snap Peas, Passion Fruit Vinaigrette,
Toasted Macadamia Nuts
Warm Rolls and Butter
Second Course
Annalyn's Magical Chocolate Ginger Cake
Coffee and Tea Service
