A dead girl walks the quiet streets of Applegate, killing child murderers. But when a boy with strange tattoos moves into the neighborhood, so, she realizes, does something else.

When Tea accidentally resurrects her brother from the dead, she learns she is different from the other witches in her family. Her gift for necromancy means that she’s a bone witch, a title that makes her feared and ostracized by her community.

Once upon a time, a kingdom called Avalon controlled most of the world’s magic until the Snow Queen encased it in impenetrable ice. Living in the Royal States of America, Tala Warnock has little use for magic – as a descendant of Maria Makiling, she negates spells, often by accident. But her family’s ties to Avalon soon finds them guarding its last prince from those who would use his kingdom’s magic for insidious ends. And with the rise of dangerous spelltech in America, the re-emergence of the Snow Queen – and the appearance of the firebird, Avalon’s most powerful weapon, at her doorstep – Tala’s life is about to get even more complicated….

Twin goddesses Haidee and Odessa know three things: that their home, Aeon, has always been split into night and day; that monsters spawn from the Breaking, the great cataclysm that tore their world asunder; and that the other is dead.