Raghi the Shadow

When desperate courage is rewarded with a magical chance

The master of Eterna's assassins' guild rules with sadistic cruelty over his enslaved apprentices. Only Raghi has never submitted to him-and paid a terrible price. His latest provocation forces him to flee.

Raghi sneaks down the Stairs of Eternity into the past and finds refuge with a mysterious clan of travelers, an ancient magic people whose positive philosophy clashes painfully with his suicidal recklessness. They introduce him to the joys of life and friendship, not realizing that Raghi carries deathly hidden dangers.

Unscrupulous powers, however, take immediate notice. Raghi has to face up to his destiny at once. Otherwise, he damns his new family and the entire multiverse to eternal darkness-and forfeits every chance of an extraordinary love right from the legends of time immemorial.

In Isa Day's touching time travel fantasy series The Stairs of Eternity seemingly lost (adult) protagonists are given a second chance. To do so, they have to travel to long gone times and forgotten worlds and overcome great danger. Their courage is rewarded with love and a community that takes them in.

The suspenseful yet heart-warming stories invite you to dream. They offer intelligent, fairytale-like and magical high fantasy for adults with multi-faceted protagonists and carefully crafted worlds. Other ingredients include time travel, a mysterious guild of murderers with a sinister master, romance, humor and -- as always in Isa Day's books -- lovable (magical) animals.

All books of the series The Stairs of Eternity are self-contained in one or two volumes, have different protagonists and can be read on their own. Readers who remain faithful to the series will discover larger contexts over the course of the books and meet beloved characters again.

'Raghi the Shadow' is the first volume of a dilogy. It tells of the search for the meaning of life and the courage to accept an extraordinary fate.

From her early teens, Isa Day burnt the midnight oil to write her stories, first after classes, then after long working hours in the corporate world. These days, she is writing full-time. Together with her husband, Isa tries to keep life interesting and unconventional, for instance, by living in a tiny white-and-purple gypsy wagon for six months-but that is another story to tell.