B.R.A.G. Medallion HonoreeScholomance snark meets Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. secrecy in this YA urban science fantasy set in Australia.Gabby is in her final year of high school and facing the Question: what does she want to do with her life? A shame ‘wizarding’ isn’t on the list of university courses.Just as Gabby despairs that she’ll never find the answer, lightning strikes – literally. She uncovers a conspiracy, meets a myst...

Prince Eliott has only ever wanted freedom. Freedom from royal marriage obligations, freedom from the war his queen and mother is waging.When he refuses to lead the Queen’s army, Eliott is imprisoned with five other rogue and rebel princes as part of a treaty to preserve the realm’s alliances. By day, the princes sit in their tower. By night, they sneak out to dance. The Queen sends spies after them, but none discover the princes’ secret – until one follows them all the way to the ...

16 stories. 16 Australian authors. One theme. Beginnings.Esmeralda is trapped in a nightmare, unable to wake and escape from the darkness.A simple bus trip turns into a fight for survival.Alone in a strange place with no memories of who she is or how she got there, Alora's world changes forever.These are just some of the stories that you will find in this thrilling collection of speculative tales.

Born with a shard of ice for a heart, supernatural circus performer Tryxan is doomed to a loveless, unfeeling life. They tour Australia with their troupe, resigned to their cold existence, until an opportunity arises: participate in a magic show that will either cure their shard – or kill them.But the show does neither. Instead of plunging to death or salvation, Tryxan is dragged through a portal to another world, where they meet a prince who longs to dance but is cursed to never s...

Expelled from university after an accident stripped her of magic, Ursa Torpalfab returns home gutted. The spectacular career she'd envisioned flying among the stars is over – unless her father, a powerful magician, can help her get her magic back. But when she goes to meet him, he's missing, and her family can't – or won't – tell her where he is.Disavowed spy Del Fevre is hiding from his former agency, painting illusions to pay the bills. But the charmed art that keeps food on his ...

You only get one Year 12 School Ball. For Gabby, that's a blessing; for Zenna, it's a waste; and for Jairo, an ageless god who's forgotten who he is, it's a chance to save the world. How do you fix a world without magic? Jairo has a plan, but he can't do it alone. When a mysterious client contracts his performance troupe to put on a show for a school ball, he takes the job with apprehension, worried that it will stall his efforts to repair the plane between worlds....

A storm gathers over Darkhaven.Gabby has made her choice. Now she must face the consequences. With her family in disarray and Darkhaven still reeling from the attack, that would be hard enough, but the Netica Project is more sinister than anyone thought.Worse, Liam, Gabby's only real friend at Darkhaven, isn't recovering from the attack. The Taskforce are still conducting their grisly experiments, Luci has vanished, and with a host of new Eventers ...

Prince Gabriel is a fallen hero. Once the darling of Peony Realm, a surgeon-general and an accomplished dancer, he spends his days hiding from the court, drinking too much wine and avoiding the scorn of his people.Fed up, the King gives Gabriel an ultimatum: return to the army or marry. The King doesn’t understand. Gabriel can’t do either. He is plagued by nightmares of killing a man, and he can’t share intimacies with another person any more than he can pick up a sword or a scalpe...

Memories. Donovan is drowning in them. Keraun is running from them. And Gabby wishes she could find them, because without past life memories, magic doesn't work.Finally, Gabby gets what she's always wanted: proof that not only is magic real, it's her destiny. But there's something deeply wrong with the world, and before she can explore her newfound talents, she has to fix it.Donovan is certain the Netica Project is part of the problem with Earth's magic. Wi...

Sworn off love, Marguerite Baccata was set to be Calya’s first female business leader – until her father decides to marry her off to a provincial Floral Realms royal instead. The worst part is he’s right; the trade partnerships such a marriage will provide are worth much more than fighting her way up the corporate ladder alone. Reluctantly, Marguerite agrees.But instead of courting a handful of eligible royals, she meets the scarred and exiled Jules. Ousted from his war-torn land, ...

Mirabelle has only ever wanted her obscure magical specialisation – curse-adjusting – to mean something. When she approaches the infamous Blacklily Castle, surely hiding all sorts of secret curses, she hopes she can prove herself to the Witches’ Guild.Before she sets foot on the front step, a vicious wolf attack leaves her bedridden and in the care of Raphael, lord of Blacklily: taciturn, mysterious – and cursed. Raphael begs Mirabelle to leave, but she can’t even walk down the sta...

A prince sentenced to death takes on the Gauntlet, a contest that's impossible to win, alongside his sworn enemy.