Sixteen-year-old Maya receives an invitation to a secret school for shadow-workers, where she discovers her late mother was the academy's most dangerous graduate.
Elena Sawyer, a sixteen-year-old orphan, wins a scholarship to Crucible Academy, the nation's only magic school. The world's mana is running out, and the students who "graduate" are harvested to power the capital. One girl refuses to look away.
Two rival astronomy-club presidents discover that the school's only telescope begins predicting constellations that mirror each other's deepest confessions. As they race to decode the impossible charts, they find themselves charting something neither expected — each other.
Seventeen-year-old Clary Vane draws maps that reveal locations that do not exist on any official chart. When one impossible coordinate marks the field where her sister vanished, Clary must unravel a century-old mystery of cartographers and hidden cities.
Teenage archivist Kael Voss discovers the generation ship Aethelgard has been flying in circles for a century — its destination destroyed, the Council lying to ten thousand sleeping colonists. When the truth surfaces, he must shatter their peace or let the lie continue.