Lane didn't know what she thought the afterlife would be, but she certainly hadn't expected to be a student of the elite Magistrate Academy, performing death magic, chasing down ghosts, and protecting After Life against witches. All for a second chance at life.Shepherd may be an unwitch, but she's not going to sit idly by while her sister, Addie, is missing. Witch or not, she's still one of the most notorious dealers at the Night Market, and she's going to use every resource at her...

Major Macconnach has tried to leave the mistakes of his past behind, to make a new life. Greatest of all, he wishes to do no harm, to preserve life.His powers allow him to spare those whose time is not yet come, to do battle with unspeakable evils, and yet he knows he cannot protect the one person who has become of utmost importance.Isabel Alderton only knows that he has withdrawn, and will not see her. With wounded heart and pride, she sets off for Mumbai to greet her uncle,...

Augustus Purce knows that nothing is ever what it seems. He's a pretty fair of example of that old saw, but now he has to take the village constable into his confidence. They have a rather nasty crime to unravel, and though it means Augustus will be dodging in and out of character, he's happy for the mental stimulation.Meanwhile, the rest of the villagers have their own secrets to tend to.

Maeve is fighting for her very self, for control over her mind and body, while still reeling from a revelation that could tear the world she knows apart. Her friends are scattered far and wide. With one of them hovering on the edge of life and death, the rest are merely struggling to find their way in a future they do not fully understand.But, as they set off to war for a world they had no hand in creating, they begin to see that some things never change.

Constable Wright and Augustus are engaged in the delicate dance of interviewing witnesses, with only the most minor of distractions besetting them. Foremost among these is Prudence Whitegate herself, who seems to see herself as a basilisk in the hallway, with her own purposes firmly in hand.Meanwhile, Doctor Poole is having a long, hard think about his motivations where Mary is concerned when Augustus springs a little surprise on him. And Mary is trying to sort out how to slip away ...

While Macconnach races against dwindling hope to reach Isabel, Colonel Arpan and Sir Robert find themselves faced with an enemy they cannot hope to defeat back at the fort.Isabel is caught still in a demon's web, and must find her way out, while Macconnach makes his way to her. Along the way, they both realize how far astray they have been led from the truth of their feelings, and what it is that each of them desires above all else.And as each party in separate battles pit th...

Augustus and Bill Wright set about searching for clues, all of which point to Charlotte having been a rather shady character. Ian tells his recollection of events to a wary Julia, who isn't sure what to make of him. Celia takes in a lodger at an unexpected moment, made worse by her distraction at having found the girls are gone.And behind the strangeness of the day's events, a question must be asked: do we know our neighbors as well as we ought?

Things are coming to a head in the village of Dunverton. Ian has been stashed away with a mysterious woman and Mary has determined never to return home. The mysterious little man had determined he's stumbled into the right place, but he has not yet crossed paths again with Julia, who is attending an autopsy with Doctor Poole, Augustus, and her father. And Otto has come to a decision about his own future.

We come to the end of the first mystery in the tiny, hidden village of Dunverton. The question that dogs Augustus is whether he has done enough.

Augustus Purce is a man who has hidden behind a construct for so long, he's no longer sure who he is. But events in his little village of Dunverton, Massachusetts soon make it impossible for him to hid any longer. The year is 1876, and in New England, everyone is looking forward to the coming Centennial celebrations. Everyone except Mary Whitegate's visiting cousins, whose forebears fled back to England during the early days of the Revolution.Soon, her cousin's opinion doesn't matte...

Kate Gray takes an unblinking look at bullying in her debut novel, Carry the Sky. It’s 1983 at an elite Delaware boarding school. Taylor Alta, the new rowing coach, arrives reeling from the death of the woman she loved. Physics teacher Jack Song, the only Asian American on campus, struggles with his personal code of honor when he gets too close to a student. These two young, lonely teachers narrate the story of a strange and brilliant thirteen-year-old boy who draws atomic mushroo...

Major Gordon Macconnach comes to India at the behest of General Lord Hugh Abington, to be his second-in-command, as well as to put his peculiar talents at the general's disposal. The major is from an old family in the Highlands, which has always had its ties with the Fair Folk. Every generation has borne several Macconnachs with unusual abilities. For Macconnach, it means insight to the realm of death, and the sometimes strange machinations of the supernatural world. For the British Crown,...