Under a Green Sky

By Jessi Hammond

Becca has come to Iceland to visit her cousin Jon and see the Aurora Borealis.

Unfortunately the weather isn't being too co-operative.

Until tonight.

But there's something else on the beach beneath the Northern Lights besides them.

Something huge. Something dangerous. Something legendary…

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kincaid Publishing
• Release date: Jun 3, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224433414

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Becca has come to Iceland to visit her cousin Jon and see the Aurora Borealis.

Unfortunately the weather isn’t being too co-operative.

Until tonight.

But there’s something else out on the beach beneath the Northern Lights besides them.

Something huge. Something dangerous. Something legendary…

Under a Green Sky

One

Becca stood on the black sand of the beach and stared up at the night sky. Out here, away from any light pollution, the stars were bright pinpricks of white and yellow and red and blue and even green in the darkness, far brighter than she’d ever seen them back home in the Sunshine Coast of Australia. The Milky Way cut a streamer of denser stars across the dark, looking like a skein of twisted white and grey silk bisecting the south-western sky.

Her cousin Jon said the Icelanders called it Vetrarbrautin, the Winter Way, because it was only visible in winter.

It was beautiful, and she’d got some brilliant photos with Jon’s camera, but it wasn’t the green streamers of the Aurora Borealis that she’d hoped to see.

She glanced across at Jon. He wasn’t looking up; he was looking out to sea, rugged up in thick pants and parka against the biting late-September wind. He was two years older than Becca but the two of them looked so similar, with thick sandy hair and tall lanky builds, that people had always mistaken them for siblings whenever they were together. Their fathers were brothers, but while Becca’s father had met and married her mother in Australia, Jon’s father had fallen in love with an Iceland ranger on his gap year trip around Europe and had moved from Australia to Iceland to be with