Critically acclaimed author of The Ashes Trilogy, Ilsa J. Bick takes her new Dark Passages series to an alternative Victorian London where Emma Lindsay continues to wade through blurred realities now that she has lost everything: her way, her reality, her friends. In this London, Emma will find alternative versions of her friends from the White Space and even Arthur Conan Doyle. Emma Lindsay has nowhere to go. Her friends are dead. Eric and Casey are lost to the Dark Passages. Emma commands the cynosure, a device that allows for safe passage between the Many Worlds, to put her where she might find her friends again. But Emma wakes up in the body of Little Lizzie, all grown up. And in this alternative Victorian London, Elizabeth McDermott is mad. Elizabeth's physician, Dr. Kramer, has drugged her to allow Emma—who's blinked to this London before—to emerge as the dominant personality. Elizabeth is dying, and if Emma can't find a way out, everyone as they exist in this London will die with her.

In the tradition of Memento and Inception comes a thrilling and scary young adult novel about blurred reality where characters in a story find that a deadly and horrifying world exists in the space between the written lines. Emma Lindsay has problems: no parents, a crazy guardian, and all those times when she blinks away, dropping into other lives so surreal it's as if the story of her life bleeds into theirs. But one thing Emma has never doubted is that she's real. Then she writes "White Space," which turns out to be a dead ringer for part of an unfinished novel by a long-dead writer. In the novel, characters travel between different stories. When Emma blinks, she might be doing the same. Before long, she's dropped into the very story she thought she'd written. Emma meets other kids like her. They discover that they may be nothing more than characters written into being for a very specific purpose. What they must uncover is why they've been brought to this place, before someone pens their end.

As a terrible storm rages, ten-year-old Dinah and her brother and sister listen to their cousin Gage's tale of a newly-hatched, orphaned, skibberee, or tooth fairy, called What-the-Dickens, who hopes to find a home among the skibbereen tribe, if only he can stay out of trouble.

Sixteen-year-old Penny Sparks needed a job and a knight in shining armor. She didn't expect to get both of them quite so literally. Now working the summer at Dragon's Brackens renaissance festival and enjoying a flirtation with one of the dazzlingly handsome show jousters, she thought her life had become exciting enough. She's about to walk in on her boss, a humble mirror artist, doing something not quite normal. Not quite human, even. Because as it turns out, the owner of Morgan's Mirrors is a Fay... Morgan le Fay. And with her cover blown, she's now demanding Penny's help hiding from an evil wizard and a secret order of knights that have hunted her through the ages. She's willing to compensate Penny for her time with magic. Even so, what she's asking is way above Penny's pay grade. Keywords: teen teenage ya young adult paranormal mystery family secrets coming of age fantasy supernatural adventure strong female lead girl power book novel story urban contemporary colorado metaphysical visionary rivalry arthurian legend morgan le fay merlin rennaissance festival renaissance summer job magic sorcery witch wizard enchantment curse fae fairy fairies romance love camelot excalibur lancelot