Susan Dennard

"Winnie Wednesday, an outcast from the Luminaries, is determined to restore her family's good name by taking the deadly hunter trials on her sixteenth birthday, but when she turns to her former best friend Jay Friday for help, they discover a danger lurking in the forest no one in Hemlock Falls is prepared for."-- Provided by publisher.

After passing the hunter trials and gaining local celebrity status, Winnie Wednesday struggles to prove the innocence of a wrongly accused werewolf and the existence of a sinister force called the Whisperer, while she unravels the mysteries surrounding her family's magic which leads her to question her loyalties and Luminary heritage.

On a continent ruled by three empires, some are born with a "witchery", a magical skill that sets them apart from others. In the Witchlands, there are almost as many types of magic as there are ways to get in trouble -- as two desperate young women know all too well. Safiya is a Truthwitch, able to discern truth from lie. It's a powerful magic that many would kill to have on their side, especially amongst the nobility to which Safi was born. So Safi...

"In an alternate nineteenth-century Philadelphia, Eleanor Fitt sets out to rescue her brother, who seems to have been captured by an evil necromancer in control of an army of Undead"-- Provided by publisher.

After Iseult's reunion with her heartstister Safi she flees Cartorra to summon dangerous magic while the Bloodwitch Aeduan is beset by forces he cannot understand and villains from legend reawaken across the Witchlands. Iseult has found her Threadsister Safi at last, but their reunion is brief. For Iseult to stay alive, she must flee Cartorra while Safi remains. Though Iseult has plans to save her friend, they will require her to summon magic more...

Sightwitch Sister Ryber Fortiza embarks on a mission deep underground to rescue her fellow Sisters, where she meets Kullen Ikray, a captain with no memory of his identity, who joins her in the search of answers that will alter the Witchlands's fate.

After an explosion ruins his ship, Prince Merik tries to expose his sister's treachery while fighting for the weak on the streets of the royal capital. Meanwhile, Aeduan, a Bloodwitch, and Iseult, a Threadwitch, form an unlikely alliance and travel together looking for Safiya, who has been shipwrecked with the Empress of Marstok in a land of pirates and is living every moment balanced on a knife's edge, trying to keep the pirates from unleashing war...