Maria James

Twelve worlds, healed once. Twelve new generations finding out what a happy ending actually has to carry. Hearts of Fate and Magic: Second Enchantments is the eagerly awaited sequel collection to Hearts of Wild Magic, returning to all twelve worlds a decade - sometimes four - after their original rescues, to ask the question every happily-ever-after leaves unanswered: what happens to a world after it's saved? From a moon-magic keeper's daughter racing a rival astronomer to decode constellations that record rather than predict, to a Fae queen's granddaughter uncovering sixty years of buried wrong inside the crystal flowers her court has learned to revere.
From a tide-reader's daughter following a current the deep sea itself sent looking for her, to an Ashkeeper's son who watches his family's phoenix cross into territory no record has ever charted. Every story is a direct sequel. Every story stands completely on its own. Book one is available on Amazon These are not stories about characters rescuing a world for the first time. They are stories about what it costs to inherit one - a curse-reader's son, a Voicebinder's apprentice, a wolf-clan ambassador, a cartographer chosen by a unicorn she didn't know was looking for her - each of them discovering that legacy and love ask the same uncomfortable question: are you willing to be changed by something larger than the safety you've built? Featuring:.         Academic rivals forced into a nine-day race against reality itself.         A wolf-clan enemies-to-lovers romance built on a fragile, ageing compact.         A road-trip romance that uncovers the true source of all magic.         Mystery-thriller energy inside a Festival of forbidden dream-masks.         A connecting thread that reveals the entire world's magic is waking up Perfect for fans of Sarah J.
Maas, Juliet Marillier, Naomi Novik, and T. Kingfisher. Hearts of Fate and Magic: Second Enchantments - because the promise was never a place. It was always a choice, renewed.