So he isn’t surprised when his absentee parents send him to live with a grandmother he’s only met three times. Jack’s bags are barely unpacked before she confines him to the property surrounding her spooky rooming house. Trapped—with the silent Ms. Mopat, the mysterious Mr. Ryan, and a surly girl named Ivy—Jack begins his last summer before high school. He has no idea how that summer, and the other boarders at Glastonbury Manor, will alter the course of his life. Jack will discover that he’s already part of a world he never imagined existed and that things he believed were nothing more than fairy tales… are all too real.

    Six years later, in order to win his freedom and return home, Ahiram enters the elite Games of the Mines. Pursued relentlessly by his enemies and driven to the limit of his endurance, Ahiram unwittingly awakens a dormant fury within him, and its resonance is caught by a hidden malice that turns the Games into a living nightmare. Refusing to submit to a cruel tyranny, Ahiram must face a harrowing death in the bowels of the earth. Still, a glimmer of hope remains. For deep within the mines, between stone and gold, a power–unlike anything the world has seen–quietly calls his name.

    Widely regarding her morphing ability as a curse, Skye's aim is to keep it a secret at all costs. But one day she meets the intriguing and affluent, Raphael Renzo, who soon proves to have a secret of his own, one that could heal the downtrodden city and affect Skye in ways she never thought possible . . . This debut novel from author, Sarah Brownlee, is a compelling and gripping read, taking the reader into a world where both the heart of a city and the heart of a girl are simultaneously pierced by one man.