The necklace arrived on Amelia Moon's thirteenth birthday. So did the nightmares.
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Campfire stories don’t stay in the dark forever…
…and now that the Shadow stirs…
…an echo pulses within Amelia.
Every morning, she reads the letter her mother left behind. Every morning, she puts on the necklace her mother wore before her. Every night, something in the dark gets a little closer.
Thirteen-year-old Amelia has grown up in Sundance, Wyoming — a town where parents still warn their children about the Sundance Shadow, and nobody stays out after dark. All her mother left her was a letter and a necklace. No family. No explanations. Just a pendant that's recently started to feel warm against her skin — like it knows something she doesn't.
Then a faded photograph surfaces — one that connects her mother's necklace to a history Amelia was never told existed. And her best friend Veyla — who has never once in her life let a mystery stay unsolved — refuses to let Amelia look away.
The necklace wasn't just an heirloom. It was a key.
The Sundance Shadow is real. And it knows her name.
For readers who grew up with Percy Jackson and Harry Potter — and always wondered what magic looked like in the American West.
Book 1 of the Amelia Moon series.
Amelia Moon just wanted to track wolves with her Forest Ranger dad and win an astrophotography contest with her best friend Veyla.
She wasn't looking for answers about her mother.
She wasn't ready for what she found.
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Behind the Amelia Moon Magic
Amelia Moon and the Sundance Shadow is the first story in the Adventures of Amelia Moon series by author R.J. Roark.
Writing from the mountains of New Hampshire, Roark homesteads with his wife, daughter, and two German Short-Haired Pointers. When not reading or writing or thinking about lost civilizations, he can be found outside, tending to the fruit trees and plants. Or filling in the holes around the yard that the dogs insist on digging. Or trying to keep the backyard black bear out of the blueberry bushes. And away from the bee hives. Basically, anything other than building the bed frame that his wife’s been requesting for years.
Why Sundance?
Because there is magic in the west.
The mysterious Devils Tower stands thirty miles away.
The Bear Lodge Mountains hold secrets.
And the world of Amelia Moon is alive amidst this landscape.