Julie Abe

Eva must travel to a seaside town to complete her training and earn the rank of Novice Witch before her thirteenth birthday, or be banned from using magic forever.

On a trip to visit her grandparents in Japan, Tessa Miyata inadvertently releases the spirit of an evil samurai god who wants to destroy Tokyo, and stumbles upon a hidden part of the city where gods and mythological creatures walk among humans.

Alliana spends her days tending to her stepfamily's inn at the edge of the abyss, but when she rescues an orphaned nightdragon and later helps an apprentice witch, she seizes her chance to escape her stepmother's tyranny and find her own happily ever after.

Aliana rano ostalas' bez roditeley. Ona zhivet v gostinice, kotoraya kogda-to prinadlezhala ee otcu, a teper' v ney zapravlyaet machekha. I esli inogda vstrechayutsya dobrye machekhi, to v etoy istorii, uvy, vse inache. Tak chto devochke, kak i odnoy - ochen' izvestnoy! - skazochnoy geroine, prihoditsya celymi dnyami vypolnyat' skuchnuyu domashnyuyu rabotu i vyslushivat' nezasluzhennye upreki. Poetomu Aliana s grust'yu smotrit na dorogu, dorogu k...