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Mosca Mye and Eponymous Clent are at it again. Escaping disaster by the skin of their teeth, they find refuge in Toll, a strange gateway town where visitors may neither enter nor leave without paying a price.

When fifteen-year-old Hark finds the heart of a deity, he uses it to save the life of his best friend, Jelt. But when the heart starts to transform Jelt into a monster, the loyalty between friends is strained.

Bone Criers are the last descendants of an ancient family charged with using the magic they draw from animal bones to shepherd the dead into the afterlife, lest they drain the light from the living. Ailesse has been prepared since birth to become their matriarch, but first she must complete her rite of passage: to kill the boy she's destined to love. Bastien's father was slain by a Bone Crier and he's been seeking revenge ever since, but his vengeance must wait.

Marin, a star student and editor of the school paper, is shocked when her charismatic English teacher comes on to her. When Marin works up the courage to report it to the administration, no one believes her. As things heat up at school and in her personal life, Marin must figure out how to use the school newspaper to take back her power and write her own rules.

When an accident forces Henriette to reveal her powerful gift for enchantments to Louis, he asks for her help. For she alone can defeat the dark magician threatening his authority.

As Enebish hunts a notorious criminal, she discovers the tides of war have shifted, and an even greater enemy is advancing, ready to bring the empire to its knees.

When Becca Hart is teased for not having a boyfriend, she impulsively pretends she's been secretly seeing someone. Overhearing the lie, Brett steps in. It's the perfect solution: until the line between real and pretend begins to blur.

When it comes to speaking to strangers, Jamie's a choke artist. There's no way he'd ever knock on doors to ask people for their votes, until he meets Maya. Maya Rehman's having the worst Ramadan ever. Why her mother thinks the solution to her problems is political canvassing, with some awkward dude she hardly knows, is beyond her. Going door to door isn't exactly glamorous, but the polls are getting closer, and so are Maya and Jamie. Mastering local activism is one thing. Navigating the cross-cultural crush of the century is another thing entirely.

In a land torn between magic and alchemy, Sepha is an exceptional alchemist, able to bend the rules in ways no one else can. But when a slip of the tongue lands her in prison with a mountain of straw, even she has to admit that she can't transmute straw into gold. With the threat of a death sentence hanging over her, she's forced to make a deal with a conniving magician.

Now more powerful and cunning than ever, Eugenides the thief is the linchpin of an uneasy truce on the Lesser Peninsula where he must navigate a perilous future amidst political machinations, divine intervention, dangerous journeys, battles lost and won, power, passion, and deception.