The Shadow Bridge Trilogy

The Shadow Bridge is a trilogy – so far only published in Icelandic – which takes place in the far future. The Earth is but a dark waste, stars go out in the sky, and a new species of hominids—stareyeds—struggles for existence in the Arctic. But even though humanity has vanished, it has left traces in the ice and the shadow bridge, its greatest achievement, encloses the Earth like a death trap. The first book, The Shadow Bridge (Skuggabrúin 2022), opens a cold and dark world to readers; the second volume, False Light (Svikabirta 2023), is a story of murder straddling fantasy and science fiction; the third book, Clear Darkness (Heiðmyrkur, planned for 2025) will draw the story to a close in both past and future. The fate of the stareyds Dimmbrá and Hnikar is threaded throughout all three books.

The Shadow Bridge

Part one - Published in Icelandic by Storytel 2022 & Sögur útgáfa 2023

“Dimmbrá cast unhuman eyes to the star which twinkled, desolate, in the dark expanse.”

In the far future, all the stars have vanished from sky save one. When the last star goes out, Dimmbrá and Hnikar, two outcast juveniles, are separated and forced to flee across the Arctic. What happened to the last star, what is the shadow bridge — can a total eclipse be averted?

The Shadow Bridge is the first part in a trilogy of the same title, a story of hybris and betrayal; light and darkness; winter and warmth.

Cover: Margrét Helga Weisshappel

False Light

Part two - Published in Icelandic by Storytel & Sögur útgáfa 2023

“In the icy waste above the village, there lurked a shadow …”

A few years after the sky opened, grim murders are committed the Arctic. The only one who can stop the killer is a witch who is imprisoned in a faraway country. Agni, a young troublemaker in the subterranean city of Neðra, flees after being sentenced to death. Soon he finds himself in the midst of frightful events which impel him to journey across the ice sheet in the hope of buying the witch’s freedom and putting an end to the killings—but the shadow is always a step ahead. The fate of the stareyeds Dimmbrá, Hnikar and the raven Owl, whom readers left at the end of the Shadow Bridge, is intertwined with Agni’s story in an unexpected way.

In False Light, readers are drawn further into the frozen world of the Shadow Bridge, which was well received by readers and critics alike. A tale of murder on the crossroads of fantasy and science fiction, False Light is a story of life and death; light and darkness; faith, hope, and revenge.

Cover: Margrét Helga Weisshappel