Mira Kyler rules Virdei’s court from the shadows. After helping her half-brother Luc cheat his way into power, she uses her lie-based magic to gather secrets and blackmail the court into obedience. Everything fractures when Kaidren Vale arrives—a challenger with magic that can expose the truth of anyone’s power with a single touch. If he discovers Mira’s secret, her control will shatter. As Kaidren and Luc face off in three deadly Trials, Mira realizes she’s done serving unworthy men. She wants power for herself—even if it means betraying them both. But the one person who could destroy everything may be the one she can’t resist.

Every summer for the past twenty years, a child from Blackridge has vanished without a trace. After a tragic accident, Jo’s mother uproots the family to the eerie town for a fresh start. Instead, Jo finds flickering lights, shifting radio stations—and ghosts. One of them is Finn: sweet, mysterious, and just as obsessed with music as she is. As Jo and Finn grow closer, she begins to suspect the spirits are tied to Blackridge’s missing children. To save the one thing keeping her afloat, Jo must uncover the truth behind the disappearances before Finn fades away forever.

It’s been eighteen months since Sutter Heyward’s brother vanished from the secluded campus of Meddlehart Academy, and Sutter is the only one who hasn’t given up hope. When he discovers that his brother was searching for the school’s rumored buried treasure—and that a secret society called the Order of the Vipers is still hunting it—Sutter and his friends join the search. But the Vipers’ dangerous initiations soon reveal a deadly truth. As Sutter uncovers the secrets behind the treasure, he may finally learn what happened to his brother—or discover that some things are better left buried.

Kang Siying is a corpse-driving priestess who has never feared death—until her ailing father collapses and she realizes she can’t save him without money. Desperate, she accepts a dangerous job to retrieve a dead prince from a hostile state. But her reanimation talisman brings the prince back to life instead—and he won’t survive without absorbing qi from evil spirits. For a greater reward, Siying agrees to help him purify ghosts, only to uncover secrets about his death that could threaten her father and the entire kingdom.

In Wisteria, innovation is forbidden—every invention summons a demon. Aurelie still creates, keeping her work small enough to survive, but she longs for more. Destrier, a demon hunter who lost his parents to summoned beasts, has dedicated his life to stopping them—but it’s never enough. When Aurelie accepts an impossible commission for a magnificent invention, she unleashes forces that will reshape their world and bind her fate to Destrier’s forever.

Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera is a member of Buenos Aires’s nineteenth-century elite, surrounded by wealth—and forgotten old-world magic—but rarely by her globetrotting parents. When they die under mysterious circumstances, Inez inherits their fortune, a secretive guardian, and a golden ring tied to ancient magic. Seeking answers, Inez travels to Cairo, where the ring draws her into a dangerous web of lies about her parents’ disappearance. With her guardian’s infuriatingly handsome assistant obstructing her at every turn, Inez must embrace ancient magic to uncover the truth—or risk becoming a pawn in a deadly game.

Shani came home for a month-long paleoichthyology internship—not to almost commit vehicular manslaughter or run into her recent ex. But when a dog-walking gig puts her back in May’s path, old feelings resurface, and being snowed in together on Christmas Eve only complicates things. As the past threatens to catch up, Shani must decide whether she’s ready to risk her heart again—or keep this as just a winter fling.

America is different here—shaped by magic, monsters, and old legends. Some wonders are harmless. Others are deadly. Elatsoe lives in this stranger America, able to raise the ghosts of dead animals, a gift passed down through her Lipan Apache family. When her cousin is murdered in a town full of secrets, Elatsoe is determined to uncover the truth—and protect her family at any cost.