The portal was closing fast. Her brother was on the other side.
Ana is seventeen, a foster child, and one of the best monster hunters her school has ever quietly produced. The shadows that crawl through dimensional portals don't scare her. A desk job does.
When a creature from a parallel world crashes her school's sports match, kills her mentor, and steals her four-year-old brother, Ana does the only thing that makes sense. She dives through a closing portal after them.
On the other side is Distira: a world of beautiful Mirrors. Violent people with pointed teeth and extraordinary powers, locked in an endless war for survival against an escalating monster plague. A world where Ana and her reluctant companion Tashi are called "Shades” and seen as half-lives, incomplete without their dangerous counterparts.
Except something has gone wrong with that theory. Because in Distira, Ana and Tashi can fly!
Ana will battle anything to get Coby back. Sea monsters. Rebel armies. A scheming Mirror champion who planned her ascendance years in advance. But the hardest part isn't the fighting. It's working out who she can trust to fight beside her.
Chasing Shadows is book 1 of the Shades & Mirrors Quartet: a fast-paced YA portal fantasy full of monster battles, uneasy alliances, strong sibling bonds, and the kind of found family built when the world is trying to kill you. Light on romance, heavy on action, with a slow-burn series arc for readers who like to settle in.
