Wallace, Kali

Twelve-year-old Octavia, who grew up believing her town was the only one left after a magical war, meets a girl from outside her town and tries to uncover the truth about her world.

"A lethal virus is awoken on an abandoned spaceship in this incredibly fast-paced, claustrophobic thriller. They thought the ship would be their salvation. Zahra knew every detail of the plan. House of Wisdom, a massive exploration vessel, had been abandoned by the government of Earth a decade earlier, when a deadly virus broke out and killed everyone on board in a matter of hours. But now it could belong to her people if they were bold enough to take it. All they needed to do was kidnap Jaswinder Bhattacharya--the sole survivor of the tragedy, and the last person whose genetic signature would allow entry to the spaceship. But what Zahra and her crew could not know was what waited for them on the ship--a terrifying secret buried by the government. A threat to all of humanity that lay sleeping alongside the orbiting dead. And then they woke it up "--Provided by publisher.

In the archipelago known as the City of Islands, magic floats through the air as songs. Mara has grown up fascinated by the spell-songs and has longed to become a great song mage. However, after her mentor Bindy, the bone-mage, is killed by a rival, Mara must go work for the powerful Lady of the Tides, from whom she earns her keep by diving into the ocean searching for magic treasures. One day she finds a trove of skeletons of fantastic creatures--winged lizards and horned horses--and in the bones is a powerful spell-song humming. Instead of teaching her the magic, however, the Lady of the Tides forces Mara to go to the island fortress of Winter Blade to find where the song came from.

After waking in a shallow grave, Breezy, a high school senior, crosses the country seeking answers about her death and resurrection, discovering along the way a host of supernatural creatures, as well as a human cult determined to "free" them at any cost.

When Sorrow's sister, Patience, is tragically killed, she is sent to live with her father, but when memories of her sister's death grow hazy, she returns to her childhood and to the strange and powerful ways we are shaped by places we call home.

After waking in a shallow grave, Breezy, a high school senior, crosses the country seeking answers about her death and resurrection, discovering along the way a host of supernatural creatures, as well as a human cult determined to "free" them at any cost.