Shadows on the Silver Strings

Book 3 in the 7-book time-bending Folktellers: Excerpts from an Unknown Guidebook series.

A quest to close an interdimensional portal to the shadow people pushes a group of teens to the limit.

Out of the shadows, a leader will rise... It was inevitable. As more and more shadows infiltrate their world, Aaron, Wendy, Jake, and Eddie learn that what was once just silhouette and smoke has become something much more terrible, tangible, and horrifying. In Book II: Cave in the Rock, we saw the interdimensional portal torn open, releasing a flood of darkness upon the world. Now, our intrepid teens must find a way to close it again, before it's too late. Their job won't be easy either, as the Shadow People have found a way to manifest as creatures from myth and legend, wreaking havoc everywhere they go behind their new leader, Apscind. This may be the best time—or the worst—for Aaron to rise up as a full-fledged Folkteller. He'll need a lot of help from friends and strangers to stop the spreading evil and seal the portal that should never have been open in the first place. In Book III: Shadows on the Silver Strings, there's music in the air, and the sound our heroes hear may be the hopeful melody of a brand new day, or a death knell tolling—a harbinger of their impending doom.

Josef Bastian is a Midwestern storyteller whose sense of humor, depth of spirit, and reflective imagination resonate within his poetry and prose. Josef currently has more than a dozen books in print that focus on the power of storytelling for people of all ages. Patrick McEvoy is an award-winning illustrator, graphic designer, and art director, with a long history creating art for games, comics, book illustration, and advertising. In the illustration field, Patrick’s clients have been very diverse, including Marvel Entertainment, Blizzard, Hasbro, Wizards of the Coast, the Science Museum of Minnesota, Fantasy Flight games, Sony Online Entertainment, Onyx Path, the Jimi Hendrix Foundation, and many more. Some recent game work includes the popular Marvel Champions game, for which he’s done over 90 illustrations.