Jake Burnett

A cosmic adventure about the boundless power of a young woman's potential. When Madarena first meets the old rogue Apophax, she assumes she's dreaming. After all, he wears a coat made of hedgehog quills, changes size at will, and treats the laws of physics as merely suggested guidelines. Very quickly, she learns she's stepped into a world where dreams and reality intersect. Dangerously. Now, she's an accomplice in the wily thief's master plan to rescue a Muse from one of the most powerful beings in existence. The unlikely duo schemes their way from a town made of moonbeams to the fog-shrouded land of the dead. They fence with nightmares and bargain with witches amid the asteroid remains of a shattered planet. Along the way, Madarena learns that potential is more than a word. Rescuing the Muse-and Madarena's own survival-depend on harnessing all the women she can be. Fans of Heidi Heilig's The Girl from Everywhere and Matt Haig's The Midnight Library will enjoy this dazzling, imaginative adventure from the author of The Chaos Court.

The Dream and the Muse

The prison-city of Osylum floats in the midst of an endless abyss. The reclusive Lady rules it; distant, inscrutable, and never seen. Her will is imposed by the Wardens, eldritch creatures who tend to the convicts’ needs but also ruthlessly purge anyone who tries to escape.

Osylum’s newest inmate, the witch Oneirotheria, has no memory of who she is, where she came from, or why she is imprisoned. Instead, her mind is a mess of spells and lore and other people’s voices. The city mirrors her internal confusion; a jumble of broken buildings covered in hundreds of snippets of graffiti.

As Oneirotheria re-assembles her own shattered past (aided by a few inmates of dubious intent), she learns she may hold not just the key to escape, but the intertwined secrets of the city’s origin and a lost love that transcends countless lives.

For readers of Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi and Madeline Miller’s Circe, The Witch & The City introduces a lyrical and baroque fantasy world, where an ocean lurks behind every mirror, puppets pull the strings of the living, and even the skulls have secrets to tell... if a witch knows how to listen.

The Witch & The City

Jacob Burnett

A classic children's fantasy adventure about fighting the weirdest fairies you've never heard. Strange things are afoot in Whosebourne. An invisible offaltosser throws trash everywhere. 12-year-old Patience Fell gets blamed. Cobblemaulers dig up the streets at night. Patience Fell gets blamed. Gabledancers stomp through the roof... Patience is done taking the blame. She digs into the mystery, with the doubtful help of a very old book, the crazy crow-lady in the attic, and a wheezy boy named Linus--who just might be a wizard. What Patience finds unleashes an ancient enemy called the Chaos Court and catapults her into a world of magic and danger beyond her wildest imagination. It'll take all her courage (and a few goods whacks with a kitchen broom) to save herself, her friends, and the whole town from certain doom. The Chaos Court blends the whimsy of classic children's fantasy like Alice in Wonderland with the modern imagination of Catherynne M. Valente's Fairyland Series.

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