Romantic Fantasy

Now available in trade paperback and ebook
from ImaJinn Books! Read Excerpt

The book formerly known as The Rainbow Bridge has been extensively rewritten and features almost 30,000 words of new material, including new scenes with the dragon and other material fans have requested.

     Alsa is a young woman with a problem: her home town is about to be attacked by a coalition of unfriendly neighbors. The seeds of the solution lie within her, she believes, in the form of an untutored talent for wizardry. But she needs to learn how to use the talent, so she goes to the local wizard, who (of course) lives in a castle high on the side of a mountain, accessible only by a bridge that appears to be made solely of light, and guarded by a dragon.

     She crosses the bridge with trepidation but survives, only to encounter the guard dragon, a creature that turns out to be not at all what she expects. But then Alsa finds that a lot of things on the wizard's mountain are not as she anticipates, including the wizard himself. The bargain she has to make with him for the lessons is a shock to her, and the training itself bears no resemblence to what she anticipated. Alsa has a lot of adapting to do and not much time for it.

     It will take every bit of her intelligence, courage and compassion to master the magic, her home's enemies, the dragon and the wizard himself.
Read an excerpt from Wizard's Bridge

Reviews for The Rainbow Bridge

"Ms. McCullough creates a wonderful fantasy world full of imagery and original ideas.  I only
wish there had been more time to develop this wonderful story – there were things I wanted to
know more about!

I was particularly enraptured with the idea of “feeling” the carrot. Never a more humorously
serious lesson have I seen given than that!

Well done! I will be keeping an eye on Ms. McCullough for new books, for she has a truly
astounding way of writing and wrapping reality into her work to give it a new spin!"
-- Cimorene, Enchanting Reviews


     Karen McCullough has penned a charming tale filled with exquisite characters and a spell-binding setting. Querellin's dragon is a welcome bit of comedic relief and the trials and tribulations of the main characters is heartwarming. THE RAINBOW BRIDGE is an enchanting read.

 This is a heart-satisfying book, with an appealing heroine, a majestically wounded hero, a charming dragon, and a happy ending that will send you digging for the tissue box.

     Love, longing, and grief form patterns that shift throughout the tale as the Rainbow Bridge shifts under the feet of those who dare to cross it. I might even wax whimsical and say that this story has its head in the clouds and its feet on the ground. From the first breath-taking moments until the last exquisite sentence in which the most important rule of wizardry is revealed, THE RAINBOW BRIDGE is a familiar, strange, glorious, memorable experience.

..shows insight and depth in the depictions of the psychological aftermath of great trauma. Death is not easy, and guilt is a fiercer enemy than any invader. Only the power of love can turn one's focus from a destructive, backward-obsessing gaze to a hopeful vision of a better future. All in all, THE RAINBOW BRIDGE was a light and enjoyable read.