Lights Over Emerald Creek

Lucy Wright, sixteen and a paraplegic after a recent car accident that took her mother's life, lives in Queensland on a 10,000 acre farm with her father. When Lucy investigates the strange lights she sees over the creek at the bottom of the property, she discovers a mystery that links the lights and the shapes to Scotland’s ancient Rosslyn Chapel.

Conversing by internet with Jonathan Barkley, a Scottish music student, Lucy discovers that beyond the Chapel is an even larger mystery. One that links the music the Chapel contains to Norway’s baffling Hessdalen lights, and a mysterious hexagonal storm on Saturn.

But her investigations have dangerous consequences, and when she disappears Jonathan travels to Australia, to find that Lucy’s discoveries have catapulted her into a parallel universe connected to our own by means of resonance and sound. A universe where a newly emerging world trembles on the edge of disaster.

As realities divide, Lucy’s mission in this new world is revealed and with it the powers that will allow her to transcend the physical laws that bind her form on Earth. In time she finds herself part of a love story that will span the galaxy.

About the Author:

Shelley is a well-established, award-winning author with 36 published novels, many in the genre of children's and young adult fiction.

Ursula K Le Guin wrote of her novel Spirit of the Mountain in 2010: 'A fine strong delicate story of a girl in mortal danger who brings herself to ask for help from powers she does not understand. Funny and agonisingly true.'

Shelley’s career took off in 1991 in South Africa when her young adult novel Freefalling won the Maskew Miller Longman Award. In 2003 In the Shadow of Inyangani was a nominee for the Macmillan African Writer’s Prize run by Picador/Macmillan/BBC World.

Shelley was born in South Africa, has lived on five continents and now lives in Queensland, Australia where she teaches high school English by day to support her writing habit by night.