Simon & Schuster BFYR
The Revenant meets True Grit with a magical twist in this thrilling and atmospheric debut fantasy. Where two teens must brave a frozen wasteland and the foes within it to save their loved ones and uncover a deadly secret hidden in the ice. A world where what lurks in the cold embrace of the wild Ice Flats might just be as deadly as the stories they tell the dark.
The Girl From Shadow Springs
What People Are Saying…
Kirkus
"The well-crafted settings use a variety of frozen landscapes, providing dangers and keeping the story grounded while giving it a strong sense of forward motion and progress. Jorie’s first-person voice is distinctive without being distracting and well utilized in showing her emotional arc...inventive worldbuilding and a distinctive protagonist make for a solid debut.”
— Kirkus Reviews
NPR
“Visceral enough to make you reach for an extra blanket, The Girl from Shadow Springs really shines as it lingers on the little details of polar survival and travel through a winter wilderness. It captures the precarious feeling of setting out across the ice with almost nothing between the traveller and death, and is very good at that survival narrative trick where I found myself counting every scrap and bullet in hope that it would be enough.”
Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
“Cypher builds her world with vivid descriptions of the snowswept Flats, frozen lakes with entire villages beneath them, and howling winds, with imagery so crystal-clear readers would be unsurprised to see frost curling the book’s pages…the pacing is exceptional, capturing the brutal slog through unforgiving terrain to moments of pure, harrowing terror.”