Ash Fitzsimmons Libri

Where there's smoke, there may be fire... Cici Connolly knows all about magic. How delicate spells were constructed. How enchantment, applied properly, could move worlds. How magic was lost forever twenty-five years ago. Born into a compound of refugees from Faerie and the Arcanum, Cici grew up under far too many watchful eyes in the Alaskan wilderness. Now, she longs for her freedom-at least a few years in the wider world. She wants to explore distant lands and play on tropical beaches with her friends by her side. And whether their overprotective parents approve or not, she and her longtime boyfriend, Gawain, want to make their relationship official. But then the strange smoke-like mist arrives one morning-whisps of dark magic drifting from the forest beyond the compound's wall. Perhaps Conota wasn't destroyed after all when Faerie fell. Perhaps some spark of Faerie may yet exist. Cici doesn't know what the hints of dark magic foretell, but she'll need to fight to save what she holds dearest in her rapidly changing world.

Ruling Faerie is hard. Sharing Faerie is harder...One year after killing his rival king, Oberon, Coileán wakes from his long sleep to find that matters aren't quite as he left them in Faerie. His teenage brother, Aiden, has kept his throne warm, but Aiden's brief reign hasn't been without consequence. After months of searching, Aiden has yet to locate Oberon's heir, the one faerie powerful enough to control his unruly court-a faerie, it so happens, who wants nothing to do with the mess Oberon left behind.Then there's the matter of Aiden's wizard sister, Helen Carver, the heir apparent to the Arcanum, who's about to marry Joey Bolin. For some of the Council magi, it's abhorrent that their future leader is tying herself to a mundane, but it's almost treasonous that her groom still lives in Coileán's backyard.Making matters worse, Coileán receives tidings from the Dark Company, the mortal realm's mercenary spymasters. His daughter, Moyna, who carries a murderous grudge, now leads the remnants of Mab's shattered court, and she has new friends who will stop at nothing to reshape the magical world.War is brewing both within Faerie and beyond its borders, and keeping the peace will take new alliances and teamwork. But even that might not be enough to stop the enemy in the shadows.