V. E Schwab

Exiled by his father to the coastal garrison town of Verose, hot-headed, arrogant, and untested Crown Prince Maxim Maresh went on to prove his worth by defeating the pirate queen Arisa, with the help of a new-found ally Isra, a member of the Arnesian garrison and a gifted solider and fighter in her own right. Following his victory, Maxim ignored his father's subsequent invitation to return home and chose to remain in Verose, determined to prove to...

Welcome to the world of ExtraOrdinary. ELI EVER identified school student CHARLOTTE TILL as a target person with EXTRAORDINARY abilities and made her his next target. Haunted by visions of her death at the hands of Eli, Charlotte set out to kill him first. She tracked him down to the town of Merit, unaware that Eli and EON knew she was coming and had laid a trap for her. Luckily, Charlotte was rescued by two fellow EOs, FELIX and MARSHALL,...

#1 New York Times Bestseller * An Amazon Best Book of the Year

There's no such thing as safe in a city at war, a city overrun with monsters. In this dark urban fantasy from acclaimed author Victoria Schwab, a young woman and a young man must choose whether to become heroes or villains—and friends or enemies—with the future of their home at stake.

The first of two books, This Savage Song

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Londons fall and kingdoms rise while darkness sweeps the Maresh Empire, and the fraught balance of magic blossoms into dangerous territory while heroes struggle.

"Victor and Eli started out as college roommates-- brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in each other. In their senior year, a shared research interest in adrenaline, near-death experiences, and seemingly supernatural events reveals an intriguing possibility: that under the right conditions, someone could develop extraordinary abilities. But when their thesis moves from the academic to the experimental, things...

Making a Faustian bargain to live forever but never be remembered, a woman from early eighteenth-century France endures unacknowledged centuries before meeting a man who remembers her name.

"Cassidy Blake and her ghostly friend, Jacob, have survived the ghosts of Edinburgh and Paris, but New Orleans is a haunted city in a class by itself, and that is the current stop for her parents' TV show; but there is something a lot scarier than ghosts here: the Emissary of Death is after Cassidy, and to defeat it she will need the help of the Society of the Black Cat and she will also be faced with a terrible choice--lose one of her two friends,...

Now in Paris with her parents who are filming their TV show about the world's haunted cities, Cassidy Blake (who can see ghosts) and her friend Jacob (who is a ghost) are alert for trouble, especially when the filming takes them into the underground Catacombs, the empire of the dead, where Cassidy accidentally awakens a powerful poltergeist spirit--one whose mystery she must solve before his power in unleashed on the whole city.--