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The Dark EliteSeries
series3 books2009
About magic schools, set in our world.
“Lily's parents have sent her to a fancy boarding school in Chicago filled with the ultra-rich.”
from the catalogue
Start with Firespell →
The Curse WorkersSeries
series3 books2010
About family secrets and curses, set in our world.
“Holly Black's Curse Workers trilogy is set in an alternate America where 'curse work' — magic that harms or transforms through touch — is illegal, enforced through gloves and Prohibition-era-style crime families.”
from the catalogue
Start with White Cat →
The Morganville VampiresSeries
series40 books2006
completed
About vampires, set in small town.
“The novels feature Claire Danvers, a student at Texas Prairie University, and her housemates in the vampire-controlled city of Morganville, Texas.”
from the catalogue
Start with Glass Houses →
The Legendborn CycleSeries
series3 books2020
Urban fantasy, tense in tone, set in contemporary and north america.
“Tracy Deonn's Legendborn Cycle follows Bree Matthews, a Black teenager who enrolls in an early-college program and stumbles into a secret society descended from Arthurian legend operating alongside her North Carolina campus.”
from the catalogue
Start with Legendborn →
The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse
universe70 books2007
Urban fantasy and fantasy, set in contemporary.
“There is a world laid over your own like a second skin, and you have been trained since birth not to see it.”
from the catalogue
Start with City of Bones →
includes The Dark Artifices, The Last Hours, The Infernal Devices, Magnus Bane, The Eldest Curses, Ghosts of the Shadow Market, Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
After ObsessionNovel
Steven E. Wedel & Carrie Jonesstandalone novel2011
About psychic powers, set in small town.