B.R.A.G. Medallion HonoreeScholomance snark meets Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. secrecy in this YA urban science fantasy set in Australia.Gabby is in her final year of high school and facing the Question: what does she want to do with her life? A shame ‘wizarding’ isn’t on the list of university courses.Just as Gabby despairs that she’ll never find the answer, lightning strikes – literally. She uncovers a conspiracy, meets a myst...

Memories. Donovan is drowning in them. Keraun is running from them. And Gabby wishes she could find them, because without past life memories, magic doesn't work.Finally, Gabby gets what she's always wanted: proof that not only is magic real, it's her destiny. But there's something deeply wrong with the world, and before she can explore her newfound talents, she has to fix it.Donovan is certain the Netica Project is part of the problem with Earth's magic. Wi...

A storm gathers over Darkhaven.Gabby has made her choice. Now she must face the consequences. With her family in disarray and Darkhaven still reeling from the attack, that would be hard enough, but the Netica Project is more sinister than anyone thought.Worse, Liam, Gabby's only real friend at Darkhaven, isn't recovering from the attack. The Taskforce are still conducting their grisly experiments, Luci has vanished, and with a host of new Eventers ...

Expelled from university after an accident stripped her of magic, Ursa Torpalfab returns home gutted. The spectacular career she'd envisioned flying among the stars is over – unless her father, a powerful magician, can help her get her magic back. But when she goes to meet him, he's missing, and her family can't – or won't – tell her where he is.Disavowed spy Del Fevre is hiding from his former agency, painting illusions to pay the bills. But the charmed art that keeps food on his ...

Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver meets V.E. Schwab's Shades of Magic (but short)Noah Fiori can stop the war – if he can rescue a prince trapped in a tower, and it's not just any tower: it's the Discontented Tower, a cursed fey site full of traps and dangerous magic. He assembles the Rebels to help, and together they retrieve the lost Prince Victoire.But Prince Victoire doesn't want to leave. Desperate, Noah lies to win Victoire's cooperation,...

You only get one Year 12 School Ball. For Gabby, that's a blessing; for Zenna, it's a waste; and for Jairo, an ageless god who's forgotten who he is, it's a chance to save the world. How do you fix a world without magic? Jairo has a plan, but he can't do it alone. When a mysterious client contracts his performance troupe to put on a show for a school ball, he takes the job with apprehension, worried that it will stall his efforts to repair the plane between worlds....

16 stories. 16 Australian authors. One theme. Beginnings.Esmeralda is trapped in a nightmare, unable to wake and escape from the darkness.A simple bus trip turns into a fight for survival.Alone in a strange place with no memories of who she is or how she got there, Alora's world changes forever.These are just some of the stories that you will find in this thrilling collection of speculative tales.