The Islands of Chaldea

The Bronze Key: Magisterium

Wizardology: The Book of the Secrets of Merlin

The Threads of Magic

The Amulet of Samarkand: The Bartimaeus Trilogy

The Throne of Fire

Crystal Keepers: Five Kingdoms

Shadow Forest

Echoes and Empires

A snarky seventeen-year-old must team up with an enigmatic criminal to cure herself of dangerous forbidden magic in the first book of a new fantasy duology from Morgan Rhodes, the New York Times bestselling author of the Falling Kingdoms series.

Josslyn Drake knows only three things about magic: it’s rare, illegal, and always deadly. So when she’s caught up in a robbery gone wrong at the Queen’s Gala and infected by a dangerous piece of magic—one that allows her to step into the memories of an infamously evil warlock—she finds herself living her worst nightmare. Joss needs the magic removed before it corrupts her soul and kills her. But in Ironport, the cost of doing magic is death, and seeking help might mean scheduling her own execution. There’s nobody she can trust.

Nobody, that is, except wanted criminal Jericho Nox, who offers her a deal: his help extracting the magic in exchange for the magic itself. And though she’s not thrilled to be working with a thief, especially one as infuriating (and infuriatingly handsome) as Jericho, Joss is desperate enough to accept.

But Jericho is nothing like Joss expects. The closer she grows with Jericho and the more she sees of the world outside her pampered life in the city, the more Joss begins to question the beliefs she’s always taken for granted—beliefs about right and wrong, about power and magic, and even about herself.

In an empire built on lies, the truth may be her greatest weapon.

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The Bronze Key: Magisterium

Holly Black, Cassandra Clare, 2016

Wizardology: The Book of the Secrets of Merlin

Dugald A. Steer, Master Merlin, 2005

The Threads of Magic

Alison Croggon, 2020

The Amulet of Samarkand: The Bartimaeus Trilogy

Jonathan Stroud, Andrew Donkin, Lee Sullivan, 2010

The Throne of Fire

Rick Riordan, 2011

Crystal Keepers: Five Kingdoms

Brandon Mull, 2015

Shadow Forest

Matt Haig, 2007