Dance of the Snow Dragon is an engrossing tale of spiritual develpment and magical wonder set in the Buddhist enclaves of the Himalayas.

&quotKernaghan unwinds this tale with powerful force and tight control.&quot Quill & Quire.

Eileen Kernaghan lives in New Westminster, British Columbia. Sophie, in Shadow is Kernaghan’s ninth book in the fantasy genre. Eileen’s first young adult fantasy, Dance of the Snow Dragon, was set in 18th century Bhutan. It was followed by The Snow Queen, which won an Aurora Award for Canadian science fiction and fantasy, and was shortlisted by the Canadian Library Association for Best Children’s Book of the Year. The Alchemist’s Daughter, set in Elizabethan England, was shortlisted for the Sheila Egoff Prize for Children’s Literature and the Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award. Winter on the Plain of Ghosts, which also appeared in 2004, is an adult historical fantasy set in the ancient Indus Valley civilization. Wild Talent: a Novel of the Supernatural, a novel of spiritualism in Victorian England and fin de siècle Paris, appeared in 2008, and was shortlisted for a Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic.

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