“Town of Shadows kept me on my toes and up way too late. This engrossing historical fantasy brings a great twist on forbidden magic, has characters that are deliciously complicated, and a hard charging plot with plenty of twists. One of the best new series I’ve read in a very long time! Fans of Charlie N. Holmberg and Luanne G. Smith will want to hop on board this Victorian train.” — Jeff Wheeler, Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Invisible College seriesIn Victorian London, magic earns you a noose.Eighteen-year-old Dorothy St. James can’t control her magic. To avoid arrest, she locks herself at home and buries her nose in her experiments. But a kidnapper called the Rook is on the loose, and his victims keep turning up insane. When Dorothy’s father is taken, she must exchange her beakers for bravery and find the Rook’s trail—the problem is, only one person ever has: a mysterious masked hero.Ashley Gardner unabashedly casts illusions, using his charm to flit between the upper ton and the magical underbelly below. When Dorothy accuses him of knowing the masked hero’s identity, he flatly denies it. Until the clever beauty intercepts a communique he desperately needs.They strike a bargain: she’ll give him the message in exchange for three clues to point her in the right direction. But Ashley won’t make them easy. In fact, he’ll make them impossible, because he has his own dangerous reasons for keeping Dorothy away—and Ashley always gets what he wants.Through dazzling ballets, wild carnivals, and death-defying train rides, Dorothy must use her wits and magic to solve Ashley’s riddles and unravel her budding feelings for the illusionist mastermind behind them. The masked hero isn’t who she believes, and the Rook is closer than she suspects. While the game was always rigged against her, returning her father—mind intact—might just cheat her out of a heart too.

Fairy tales are fun…until your life becomes one. It’s 1987, and fifteen-year-old Frances Fye might be a little too obsessed with fairy tales. But when grief and the loneliness of small-town life threaten to overwhelm her, stories carry her off to magical adventures.Then a new boy shows up at school—mysterious, magnetic, and shockingly similar to Fran’s favorite fictional hero. And when a wrong-number phone call leads to friendship with Trowbridge, an exiled bridge troll with sinister intentions, Fran’s world cracks wide open.Suddenly, the fairy tales she’s always loved aren’t just stories anymore. They’re real—and dangerous.Entangled in the deadly schemes of fae royalty, she has little choice but to depend on the most unlikely allies: her middle-aged English teacher who’s more than he seems, the secretly sensitive school rebel, and her less-than-charming ex.To escape the mythical lands she once longed for, Fran must face the truth she’s spent years avoiding: real courage isn’t found in books.It’s found in her.Carrie Anne Noble delivers a heartfelt, imaginative YA fantasy full of 1980s nostalgia, magical twists, and the bittersweetness of finding your courage. Trowbridge and Fye is a charming, clever adventure perfect for anyone who ever wished their favorite fairy tales could come to life.

A sixteen-year-old shifter who is the last of her kind. A school for magical creatures on the brink of catastrophe. Learn who to trust fast or it’s extinction, baby.All my life, I dreamed of studying at Moon Shifter Academy. Now I can finally ditch the drug that keeps me in boring human form and unleash my inner wolf. But my dream became a nightmare. The school wants to keep us drugged and docile, my parents have been murdered, and I just found out I'm the last female in the wolf-shifter line.The blood mage who killed my family is now hunting me. My plan is simple: hunt him first.But nothing is ever easy. I’m caught between two dangerously magnetic brothers: my heartbreaking ex, Eddie, who’s hiding secrets of his own, and the infuriatingly handsome Artemon, who seems to hate me as much as he wants me. The deadliest secret of all? They’re the grandsons of the man I’ve sworn to kill.To avenge my family, I have to become a predator. But to survive, I might have to trust the enemy.

Tarkosi Terelta is a nobody. A nobody who will save his world from demons and the hellfire they bring.The third-born of a shamed family, Tarkosi's lot in life is to spend his days as a worker, feeding temperamental lancewings under a harsh master. His days in the bloodwood city of Shal Gara are full of drudgery, tedium, and pain, his own ambitions cast aside in the name of order.That is until demons from a broken world invade the forest realm of The Swathe, and an accident born of violence and dark magic intertwines Tarkosi’s fate with the greatest among them.Forced onto the frontlines of a war forgotten by history, Tarkosi must balance battling the royal demon bound to him with the rapid progression of the magical abilities its presence has bestowed. Risking everything, he will need to tread a thin line between hero and heretic to keep Shal Gara from falling into ruin and chaos.Avatar: The Last Airbender meets Venom in this epic progression fantasy perfect for fans of Iron Prince, Cradle, and Kingfall.

A DARK ARMY RISES,A NEW SHIP SAILS THE SEAS,AND OLD ONES, LONG SILENT,ARE SUMMONED FORTH TO LEAD.Whereas only a few months earlier he would not have believed any of it, Salem Swan now finds himself faced with sinister enemies and, equally surreal, surrounded by close friends. He has gained powers as a mythlinguist, and with it a responsibility to reunite the world of humans with the world of myth, known as the Fringe.With his uncle Ulysses and Captain Fern taken prisoner by a growing Regulat force, it's up to Salem and the crew to seek help in old allies. This takes them to the heart of the Amazonian rainforest, where a city concealed in waterfalls tests the measure of their resolve.Meanwhile Regulat forces conspire to eliminate fringers of the World Beneath and bear down on a sacred space with a terrible force that knows no mercy.The world is changing faster than anyone realizes, and salvaging its best parts now rests in the hands of three teenagers and a mythical crew who cannot stand to see it lost.

Can a man born a slave change his destiny with one secret mission?Born of the Shinree, an enslaved fallen race, Ian Troy is magically bound to protect the kingdom of Rella. Since childhood, he trained to be their champion in a seemingly never-ending war. Called to the battlefield a brash young man of seventeen, Troy is anxious to show off his prowess with both magic and blade. He believes his role is vital to the realms of Mirra’kelan finally knowing peace.Only, war is nothing like he thought.After a year of being mistrusted and shunned simply for the blood in his veins—his magic restrained by an authoritarian queen—Troy has grudgingly learned his place. He follows orders and suffers their abuse in silence because the cost of insolence is a chain around his neck.When Queen Aylagar handpicks him for a mission deep inside enemy territory, he thinks his time has come. Fate willing, he will prove to them all: Ian Troy is more than the “witch” they believe.Discover the birth of an anti-hero in this prequel fantasy adventure set fifteen years before The Crown of Stones Trilogy. This dark, epic tale sets a young magic-wielding soldier on a path to becoming far more notorious and powerful than any of his kind.