"A novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald's last years in Hollywood--a sympathetic and deeply personal portrait of a flawed man who never gave up in the end, even as his every wish and hope seemed thwarted"--

A wanderer and a cursed child. Spells and magic. And dragons, of course. Welcome back to the world of Alagaësia.

Twins Virginia and Tommy Matthews have been on their own since they were orphaned at the age of five. Twelve years later, a deadly contagion steadily wipes out entire populations and a devastating world war rages on for the cure. When Tommy is drafted for the war, Virginia and Tommy flee into the dark night. Armed with only a pistol and their fierce will to survive, the twins must navigate the dangers and wonders of this changed world as they try...

As New England swelters in the summer of 1914, Detective Isaac Bell is asked to investigate a cache of missing rifles, only to discover something much more sinister. Whoever broke into this Win.ter Factory wasn't looking to take weapons, they wanted to leave something in the shipping crates: a radio transmitter, set to summon a fleet of dreaded German U-boats. Someone is trying to keep American supplies from reaching British shores, and if Bell doesn't...

When a distraught Scottish veteran from Afghanistan is knocked unconscious, waking up to find his beloved ex-service dog missing, Corinna and her lover, Daniel, find themselves inextricably drawn into the machinations of a notorious underworld gang of drug runners. Corinna and Daniel need to pull together all the strings to find the connections between their wandering Scottish veteran, his kidnapped dog, a student dramatic society that's moved into...