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Freya isn't your average suburban school kid–she's a demigoddess. But even a demigoddess can't hold back the sea. After a violent storm, Freya and her family are set adrift in a world where the weather comes with attitude, and rising sea levels are as much about personality clashes as climate change.

Meet Tammy, a demigoddess gifted with a water affinity. Her only problem? She resides in perpetually soggy England, where her unfortunate rain allergy complicates life. One fateful day on her way home, she stumbles upon a flash flood and a teenage werewolf, sparking a chain of events that will alter her destiny forever.

At The Thorn’s Gift inn, Mirren juggles pancakes (much desired by her cheeky squirellurra companion), and simmering batches of thornberry syrup—just another autumn day in Thornberry Vale. With her mother ill and the harvest in full swing, Mirren and her sister Annalira are stretched thin, trying to keep the inn running. A visit from a courier caravan throws new ingredients into the mix, with unexpected results.

When Sibyl unexpectedly acquires a magical bookshop, she is torn between exhilaration and panic. She's landed on her feet on her first venture away from home, as the bookshop comes complete with an apartment above it.

Metamorphosis isn't all it's cracked up to be. But when a private investigator with dryad ancestry has to find her ex's killer, she might have to embrace it. Ngaire is desperate for a case to pay the bills. She needs to feed herself and her teenage daughter, not to mention paying the rent. But the case she gets turns out to be more challenging than she was prepared for when it turns out to be a murder investigation. As a part-dryad, she's able to use some non-standard investigative procedures.

Sibyl’s family are descended from the same bloodlines that provided the oracles in Greece. She’s even inherited the name to go with the talent. But she's just failed her prophecy exams. Worse than that, her dog has disappeared and none of her far-seeing family can find him. When her aunt prophecies that her dog has gone where he's needed most, Sibyl decides she's had enough of the seer lifestyle.

Cleo has her paws full making sure that her witch Elodie's do-it-yourself charms are worth the boxes they're packaged in. Her witch isn't always the best flier, either. Elodie just needs to get her next batch of charms made in time for Witch Week. If only Cleo didn't keep getting in the way, upsetting pumpkins, and getting her claws into everything. But when Cleo and Elodie find a hunter and his hellhounds risking wildfire in the forest one Halloween morning, the cat and her witch will have to work at their best to make sure the Wild Hunt doesn't bring terror to the nearby town.

Despite taking her cat with her when she moved for university, Freya is lonely. Her need for friendship leads her to join a group on a night out. But can her new acquaintances be trusted? An out-of-season snowstorm descends on the city. The night streets are haunted by terrifying black barghests. There's a freak accident in the climbing gym. And not all of her new friends are what they seem. When a descendant of Apollo attacks the group with crows and arrows, Freya is horrified. But when it turns out he's on a vendetta to get rid of weres, Freya isn't sure what to think.

When divination fails, will disaster automatically follow? To take her place as a seer, Sibyl first has to pass an exam proving her ability. But not all exams end well. When Sibyl fails her seers exam, she escapes to a family farm to come to terms with her failure. Her stay doesn't bring the relief she expected; instead, she's reminded all over again how much hard work there is to do on a farm in rural Aotearoa New Zealand—and what dangers there are, too.