The Umbra Tales

Keeper of the Lost Cities meets Pokémon in this riveting first book in a middle grade series about a girl who embarks on a treacherous journey with her mystical animal companions to save her family—and the entire kingdom. Twelve-year-old Mia McKenna has grown up in the darkness. It’s all...

Nubis has been plunged into the Darkness by the shadowy Reaper King—a figure children know only through their nightmares. When his minions capture her parents and take over the city, Mia, her friends and her little brother must travel across the Nightmare Plains to reach Stella, the City of Light. But getting there isn't going to be easy. Mia must learn to harness her umbra taming abilities if she stands any chance of confronting the king and rescuing her parents. If she can't, she'll lose her family—and her soul—to the Darkness forever.

The Elite are imprisoned, the Reaper King is once again banished from the world, and the city of Nubis is trying to return to normal. So is Mia, but it’s not so easy. Coming to terms with new powers and being the tamer of two umbra, she’s also plagued by nightmares. Is the fear all in her imagination? Or are the agents of darkness somehow planning another assault? Once again, Mia’s skills and resilience will be tested to their limits.

Mia grapples with the responsibility of her new powers and uncovers even more of Nubis’s secrets in this “fantastically creepy…engaging” (Kirkus Reviews) second book in the Umbra Tales middle grade series that’s Keeper of the Lost Cities meets The Golden Compass. The Reaper King’s...

Mia and her umbra go on the offensive to restore light to her moonlit kingdom in this “thrilling” (Kirkus Reviews) third and final book in the Umbra Tales middle grade series that’s Keeper of the Lost Cities meets The Golden Compass. Having grown up in the moonlit city of Nubis, Mia...