Welcome to our Saturday Spotlight feature where we at Read Indie Fantasy will be hosting a new spotlight every Saturday to showcase the incredible talent of self-published fantasy authors!
Please welcome N.P. Thompson and River of Crows, a witty and action-packed upper middle grade fantasy for fans of Percy Jackson, Keeper of the Lost Cities, and Wings of Fire.
A cryptic prophecy. A dangerous quest. An explosive family secret. And a crow with a white feather who is more than he appears…
Mortal peril is twelve-year-old Ty Baxter’s new normal when he teams up with the weird girl from school to help an injured bird and suddenly finds himself trapped in a strange, magical world.
Now the target of a brutal tyrant with unfathomable power, Ty grapples with a life-altering revelation about his past and the implications of an ancient prophecy. As he struggles to control his own emerging magical Talent, Ty embroils himself in a desperate gamble to help his new friends save their missing family before the emperor uses his dark sorcery to transform them into birds, enslaving them forever as soldiers in his enchanted avian army.
And if he survives all of that, he’s probably still going to get grounded—if he ever finds a way to get back home.
River of Crows by N.P. Thompson is the first in The Arcanum series of middle grade fantasy and is a Wishing Shelf Book Awards silver medal winner, a Canadian Book Club Awards finalist, and was also shortlisted for a Rubery Book Award. The fourth book will be releasing on November 4th.
About the Author
N.P. Thompson lives in Ottawa, Canada, with her two awesome kids and a very lazy cat. When she’s not building web things you can either find her wrangling plot bunnies or binge-watching episodes of Doctor Who and Babylon 5. She enjoys talking to the neighbourhood crows (most days), but wishes they would stop nagging her about not having finished their stories yet.
- Website: nptwrites.com
- Bluesky: @nptwrites.bsky.social
