Welcome to Darmid, where magic is a sin, fairy tales are contraband, and the people live in fear of the Sorcerers on the other side of the mountains. Rowan Greenwood has everything she's supposed to want from life-a good family, a bright future, and a proposal from a handsome and wealthy magic hunter. She knows she should be content with what she has. If only she could banish the idea that there's more to life than marriage and children, or let go of the fascination with magic she's been forced to suppress since childhood. When Rowan unknowingly saves the life of one of her people's most...

When Hazel Walsh discovers a strange key in the attic of the Old Brook Inn, she doesn't imagine the door it unlocks will lead anywhere special. Though superstitious, she's never bought into the local stories of fairies, ghosts, and demons. But when she opens the door, she discovers just how wrong she was. Hazel is dropped into a world in the midst of a revoloution, where monsters have overthrown the humans who once enslaved them. All of the humans, that is, except for Verelle, the cruel sorceress who vanished at the moment of Hazel's arrival. If Hazel wants any chance of surviving and making...

Not every fairy tale ends with "happily ever after." The plan was simple: Find Ulric, the lost king of Tyrea, then return him to Luid to reclaim his throne from the tyrant who stole it. But though Aren, Rowan, and Nox accomplished the first part of their task, the rest is proving to be more complicated than any of them imagined. Severn won't give up his throne without a fight. Worse, it seems Ulric did not fare as well during his years in captivity as he's led everyone to believe-and Rowan may not have escaped unscathed, either. If Nox doesn't find a cure for the king's mysterious ailment,...