Solstice is a magically potent time. Anything can happen on the longest day of the year. Or the shortest. In The Solstice Cup twin sisters Breanne and Mackenzie are facing the winter solstice in Ireland and Mackenzie is terrified the Otherworld is reaching out for them again.

Five years earlier, during the summer solstice, Mackenzie knows for certain a long, thin arm came out of the shadows, her sister disappeared and when they found her, she was not the same girl. Breanne scoffs at the outlandish idea her limp, a leg that won't heal, is the work of a malevolent night-dwelling creature's dart.

But Breanne does blame her sister for the affliction and when once again the two girls cross into the Otherworld the festering resentment may well cost them their lives.

The Solstice Cup began brewing for Rachel Dunstan Muller a few years ago when she accompanied her husband on a teaching exchange to Northern Ireland and found inspiration in the mysterious glens. A mother of five, including twins, she lives in a small community on Vancouver Island.

978-1-55469-017-6

[BCBW 2009]