Twelve-year-old Archie Wiggins is intrigued when a new family moves into the big, spooky house next door. The young girl and her parents seem to be strange and secretive and able to do things which shouldn’t be possible. Archie witnesses the girl, dressed all in black, performing a magic trick in her garden. Except that he doesn’t believe that it’s a trick; he convinces himself that what she is doing is real magic – and that she must be a...

Twelve journeys to new lands and embarks on even more perilous adventures in this sequel to Fireborn, which B.B. Alston praised as the best kind of children's fantasy story. Twelve is now a full-fledged hunter, with a new name worthy of her fiery powers: Phoenix. But with her new powers come new responsibilities. When a plea for help arrives from the long-lost witch clan, it's clear Phoenix's newfound fire is their only hope. Phoenix and her friends...

"A steamy, riotous second-chance romance about a magical florist's unexpected reunion with her high school sweetheart . . . while she fake dates his soon-to-be stepbrother"--

It's summer, and the Weird Sisters are convinced that the residents of Covenly aren't coming to their pet emporium--and newly opened detective agency--because the sisters are too strange. So they decide to let nine-year-old Jessica Nibley teach them how to play on the swing to fit in.They soon discover the town's beloved tire swing lying on the ground with its rope severed. Who would do such a thing? And why? Jessica and the sisters are determined...

Angelique Clairvoux lives in St. Martinsville, Louisiana, free of the slavery in other parts of the south. Living together with her grandmother, she practices voodoo and makes her living telling fortunes and selling charms and remedies. When the slave catchers arrive, Angelique is captured and assaulted, but manages to escape to the wilds of the bayou with her meager belongings, only to be never heard from again. Soon after, several men in the area...

"IWhether morning, noon, or night, at home or away from the atelier, witches Qifrey and Olruggio never fail to bring delicious, healthy meals to the table. Then again, sometimes an indulgent snack is just the thing to get four young apprentices through a magic lesson. Baked Glittersweet? Chasenut pancakes? These sweet delights have oh-so-sweet ends!"--

In a country divided between humans and witchers, Venus Stoneheart hustles as a brewer making illegal love potions to support her family. Love potions is a dangerous business. Brewing has painful, debilitating side effects, and getting caught means death or a prison sentence. But what Venus is most afraid of is the dark, sentient magic within her. Then an enemy's iron bullet kills her mother, Venus's life implodes. Keeping her reckless little sister...