Hi friends,

I have the best news to share with you today.

The Northern Star is officially here.

When Maggie Mooney discovered magic in The Singing Lighthouse, I honestly had no idea how many of you would fall in love with her!  And with Diego, Felicia, and the magical little town of Bayfield on Lake Superior that I’ve loved writing so much. Your messages have meant everything to me, and I’m so glad the adventure is continuing.

Book 2 picks up just a few weeks after the lighthouse mystery closed. Felicia’s dad spots a ghost ship glowing in the morning fog. It’s the Northern Star, which vanished over a hundred years ago carrying a water organ built to heal an entire community. But ghost ships don’t appear without a reason. And this time, Maggie isn’t just solving a mystery. She’s helping finish a promise that’s been waiting over a century to be kept.

New friends join the adventure, and not all of them are entirely human.

The magic of Bayfield runs deeper than the kids ever imagined, and the stakes are higher than ever.

📖 The Northern Star is available now on Amazon

If you’ve already finished it — I’d love to hear what you thought! And if you haven’t started yet, there’s no better time to dive in. (Pun fully intended.)

Thank you for being part of Maggie’s world. And for being part of mine!

Lots of Love,

Arden Wren-Shade

P.S. — Book 3: The Bayfield Echo and Book 4: The Shadow Keeper’s Oath will be coming out really soon. One of the benefits of writing them all before I started releasing.