Vicki Fletcher

The god of Creation has died, shards of his essence raining down on one small world. A girl, born the night of the meteor shower, is bonded to one of these shards and gains a small fragment of the dead god's power. But there are others out there seeking the shards, and they will not rest until they are united for their own purposes. Attacked one day by one of these others, the young girl will have to leave everything she has ever known and embark on a journey to learn who she really is and what the shards can do. Accompanied by a grumpy but well-meaning companion, Estelle will truly find out what it means to wield a shard of Creation.

Trolls and pookas, wild woodlands and fairy meadows. A dollhouse with secrets within its rooms. A holiday cottage comes with a ghostly guest, and walkers awake an ancient myth. Then a child finds an unusual excuse for missing homework, before an artwork unravels, and a wild garden cultivates a few surprises ... Full of the mysterious and the gothic, myths and memoir, this is a captivating and intriguing anthology of short stories and poetry inspired by the magic within a landscape the author knows well. An original collection by: Diana Alexander, Patrick Booth, Amaris Chase, Stephen Connolly, Toby Crabbe, Myles Cutler, Daphne Denley, J.J. Drover, Jenny Finch, Vicki Fletcher, Nikolina Hua, Rose Leicester, Olive Malcolm, Rebecca McDowall, Rosalind Newton, Margaret Royall, Stuart Samuel, Derek Skinner, Julie Wiltshire and Ceri Vyner, with illustrations by Lorna Gray