Author: Emily Bain Murphy

Publisher: Penguin Random House
Published: 03/03/2026
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9780593601457

About the Author
Emily Bain Murphy is the author of two young adult fantasies: The Disappearances, which was a Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year, an ALAN Pick, and was shortlisted for the Waterstones’ Children’s Book Prize; and Splinters of Scarlet, which received multiple starred reviews and was nominated for the Mark Twain Readers Award. She is also the author of two historical mysteries for adults, Enchanted Hill and The Ivory City. A Kingdom of Shadows is Emily’s middle grade debut.