Nicola Barber

Features homes in rural areas, poor areas, on hilltops, and even in caves.

Vega Jane lives in the imaginary Wormwood. Everyone who lives there is told there is no way out, but Vega's mentor Quentin Herms disappears and sends her a secret message that he has found a way out.

It has the power to destroy with a single touch. Four heroes and their spirit animals race underground and around the world to battle an awakening evil from which there is no escape.

The New York Times bestselling authors of The Glass Ocean and The Forgotten Room return with a glorious historical adventure that moves from the dark days of two World Wars to the turbulent years of the 1960s, in which three women with bruised hearts find refuge at Paris' legendary Ritz hotel. The heiress . . . The Resistance fighter . . . The widow . . . Three women whose fates are joined by one splendid hotel France, 1914. As war breaks...

In the title tale, an aspiring Charter mage signs up to work on a nearly century-long bridge construction project plagued by everything from Free Magic sorcerers to nomad raiders. Eighteen additional short stories feature several new twists on the paranormal, science fiction, mystery, adventure, and contemporary genres in a collection featuring an Old Kingdom novella. 416pp.

Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan--once heroes of Erdas--are now wanted fugitives. Framed for a crime they didn't commit, they've been hunted across the globe by the ruthless mercenaries, the Oathbound.

When authorities threaten to take Sophie, twelve, from Charles who has been her guardian since she was one and both survived a shipwreck, the pair goes to Paris to try to find Sophie's mother, and they are aided by Matteo and his band of "rooftoppers."

"Alice TodHunter Moon, PathFinder and apprentice to the ExtraOrdinary Wizard Septimus Heap, must find another Oem Egg before all the lapis lazuli in the world-the source of all Magyk--crumbles"-- "In the third and final book in the TodHunter Moon series, Tod must find a replacement Egg of the Orm before the Castle--and all its Magyk--disappears forever. Perfect for fans of Angie Sage's original Septimus Heap series and Brandon Mull's Fablehaven series....