The Lady of Shadows

Mika is finally meeting her mother. It should be a cause for celebration. Instead, it’s one of caution as she is drawn into a dark and twisted mystery.

Now thirteen, Mika has left behind her Stockholm orphanage for a treacherous journey with Detective Hoff to finally meet her mother, Annie Moonwind, a maid at the imposing Roseboon estate. Upon their arrival, and to their surprise, Valdemar is mistaken for the local constable, and Mika his errand girl, summoned to arrest Annie for mysterious crimes.

But are dark forces at work at Roseboon? After all, doors are kept bolted. Windows are nailed shut. And screams pierce the dark. Maybe something wicked has been unleashed. Everything points to a creature that only comes at night. So why is Annie in the crosshairs?

Now Mika and Valdemar must maintain their bluff long enough to uncover the mysteries of Roseboon and free Mika’s mother from captivity before accusations against her become inescapable. Mika and Detective Hoff are back in this spine-tingling new installment of the Moonwind Mysteries series!

Johan Rundberg lives in Stockholm and is the award-winning author of The Night Raven, The Queen of Thieves, and The Lost Ones in the Moonwind Mysteries series. He was awarded Sweden’s most prestigious literary prize, the August Prize, in the children’s and YA category for The Night Raven, which was a Kirkus Best Book of the Year and was short-listed for the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative Translated YA Book Prize. He is also the author of Biggest Fake in the Universe, a contemporary humorous novel for middle-grade readers, which The Horn Book called a “charming story of love and being true to yourself.”

A. A. Prime is an award-winning translator of Swedish literature. She translated The Night Raven, by Johan Rundberg, which was short-listed for the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative Translated YA Book Prize and was named a Kirkus Best Book of the Year and a USBBY Outstanding International Book, among other accolades. Recently, she translated The Secrets Below, book one in the Whispering Sea Mysteries, written by Camilla Sten and Viveca Sten. She was born in London and now lives in the English coastal town of Hastings. She has published more than thirty books in the UK and US. For more information, visit www.primetranslatrix.com.