The Savior and the Shadow Queen is a modern-day epic poetry collection that dances between fanciful, tragic, and modern. McAfee deftly weaves multiple stories, leaving us and her characters to question all of the assumptions and biases brought to the reading. A story of forgiveness, grief, and harm that we inflict upon those around us, and especially upon ourselves, this is a collection of sequential poems that, like waking from a nightmare, will leave you relieved yet still trying to catch your breath.