Young Adult New Releases November 10th 2026
Another big release week! Savor it now, because after this it will be very sparse for the rest of the year. Sometimes not even enough for a weekly post, but I usually do them through November, and then all of December in one post at the beginning of the month. BUT it is almost the holidays so if you are looking for books for specifically Holiday Reads I have compiled quite a list over the last few years! And if you plan on buying any books as gifts please consider using our affiliate partners – Bookshop.org for your physical & ebooks & Libro.fm for audiobooks – and you can buy gift credits for your friends and family too!
And If I Die Before I Wake: A Memoir
by George M. Johnsonon November 10, 2026
Genres: LGBTQIA+, Non-Fiction, Young Adult
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They may be the author of the #1 most banned book in America, but George M. Johnson isn't finished telling their story yet. Written with unflinching emotion and unapologetic boldness, And If I Die Before I Wake is nothing short of a testimony -- one the world desperately needs to hear.
George M. Johnson is no stranger to death. In this debut adult memoir, readers are invited to witness untrodden ground as George navigates an HIV diagnosis, alcoholism, tremendous loss, and nationwide book bans over the span of 15 years. Through the highs and lows of life in the spotlight, they have clung to family and community like never before -- finding their most authentic self along the way.
Drawing inspiration from Toni Morrison, Jesmyn Ward, and Ta-Nehisi Coates, And If I Die Before I Wake explores grief, trauma, sexuality, and the Black family through the lens of transformation, healing, and hope. Poetic, grounded, and bursting with signature humor, this is New York Times-bestselling author George M. Johnson more bold, more brave, and more daring than ever -- ready to share a new part of their journey with the world.
Girls Walking with Wolves
by Jenna BanerPublished by: Page Street YA
on November 10, 2026
Genres: Fantasy, LGBTQIA+, Mythology/Folklore, Young Adult
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Arden Hood, blind since birth, is not afraid of witches.
Every day Arden walks alone, deep into the woods, to care for her beloved, ailing grandmother, and she’s yet to come across a single witch.
Arden believes her life may be this small forever—quiet evenings with her father and days spent at her grandmother’s bedside—until two encounters alter the course of her life. One day at the market she chances upon the Queen’s hunter, who develops an interest in her yet won’t say what he’s hunting; and that same evening, she’s rescued from a wolf attack by a mysterious young woman named Myra, the last witch still living in the woods.
Myra is nothing like the witches in the villagers’ stories—she is good and kind and soon she becomes the best friend Arden has ever had. The girls hide their friendship, but they cannot hide forever. The hunter was sent to these woods for a reason, and he won’t leave until he’s captured a witch…
The Sign of the Raven
by Pippa DunnPublished by: Viking Books for Young Readers
on November 10, 2026
Genres: Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Young Adult
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Dreams may be more real than we think, as one intrepid dreamer discovers in this YA historical fantasy set in nineteenth century London—perfect for fans of Emily J. Taylor and V. E. Schwab.
LONDON, 1889.
Ashlyn Threadneedle leads a double life. By day she works as a government messenger. By night she escapes into vivid lucid dreams, navigating the Stream—a world in which the only boundary is her own imagination. But when her long-dead mother unexpectedly appears in a dream, Ashlyn is certain the Stream is hiding secrets, ones that contradict everything she knew about her past—and threaten to undo the future of everyone she loves.
In her quest for answers, she joins the Corvi Signum, a secret society of dreamers fighting to protect the Stream from an insidious enemy powerful enough to manipulate people’s thoughts and seize control of London. For Ashlyn to have any hope of preserving her own mind, she must first unravel the mysteries of both her family and the Stream. But a world of dreams is a treacherous place. Time slips backward and forward as easily as sand through an hourglass, and if Ashlyn and her fellow dreamers fail in their mission, then nowhere—neither waking nor sleeping—will be safe.
The Siren's Kiss
by Leslie VedderPublished by: Abrams / Amulet
on November 10, 2026
Genres: Fantasy, Historical Fiction, LGBTQIA+, Thriller, Young Adult
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Pirates of the Caribbean meets The Little Mermaid in this swashbuckling Sapphic fantasy!
Three years ago, Dead Shot Rayleigh laid hands on the legendary ruby the Siren’s Kiss and suffered the wrath of the sea god, Red-Handed Roger.
Now bound as captain of his cursed ship, The Revenant, eighteen-year-old Rayleigh hatches a plan to win her freedom. Everyone knows that Red-Handed Roger’s heart was stolen by the Sea Witch. If she can get it back, she can barter her release.But Rayleigh isn’t the only one with a score to settle. Fiery mermaid Maren lost her brother to the Sea Witch, and she’s come to the surface to get him back and save the last remaining mermaids at all costs.
When Maren runs afoul of the infuriating cursed pirate Rayleigh, sparks fly, and all her plans go up in flames. Now the only chance they have is each other.
Swashbuckling, sea monsters, pirate kings, siren songs, and stolen hearts!
Red-Handed Roger and the Sea Witch were once friends, before they both fell for the same mermaid and almost destroyed the world. Will Rayleigh and Maren’s love set things right, or just finish what the old gods started?Some hearts are meant to be stolen...
Embers of Magic
by Catherine BakewellPublished by: HarperCollins
on November 10, 2026
Genres: Fantasy, Mythology/Folklore, Retellings, Romance, Young Adult
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"A frost-laced fairytale and a spark of warmth in a cold world. I was swept away.” — Allison Saft, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wings of Starlight
From the bestselling author of Flowerheart, Catherine Bakewell, comes a cozy, romantic, and enchanting reimagining of The Snow Queen perfect for fans of Rachel Griffin and Sarah Beth Durst.
Fiamma has never trusted her fire magic. It's volatile, unpredictable—destructive. All she wants now is to leave her past and her magic behind her, and search for the parents who vanished long ago.
Yet when she seeks aid from the king, he issues a chilling demand: she must first assist his son, Prince Joseph, in ending the magical frost creeping across the kingdom... by killing the witch responsible.
Joseph is sweet, thoughtful--if mercurial. He seems entirely unlike his father; gentle in ways that Fiamma doesn't expect. As the two work together, Fiamma finds herself drawn to him, something beginning to spark between them.
But their newfound closeness uncovers a terrible truth: this unnatural winter isn’t just consuming the land. It’s consuming Joseph, too, freezing his heart into something cold and unrecognizable.
To save him, Fiamma must confront the past she's so desperate to forget, and the true, devastating nature of her fire—even if doing so might unravel everything she’s begun to hope for.
A Destiny So Cruel (A Fate So Cold, 2)
by Amanda Foody, C. L. HermanPublished by: Tor Teen
on November 10, 2026
Genres: Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Young Adult
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A Destiny So Cruel is the heartwrenching epic finale to the blockbuster fantasy duology that started in A Fate So Cold, from the New York Times bestselling authors of All of Us Villains.
“You could be the end of me a thousand times over, and I’ll still crawl back to you.”
For a millennium, Alderland had enjoyed a long, languid Summer, interrupted by six weeks of brutal Winter, only survivable thanks to the protection of the Living Wands, magical instruments of Summer, and their chosen wielders. Winter was the enemy, the villain of every story, its magic and storm and monsters universally reviled.
Until now.
For the first time in known history, many long months of glittering snow and the gentle kiss of prevailing Winter have reigned over Alderland. And just as the people are beginning to feel at home in the cold, a new and terrible Summer season arrives in a shock of blazing heat, the sun a hot coal in the sky.
A new generation of Living Wands take up the daunting task of rebuilding Aldrish society in the wake of the cataclysm that changed their world irrevocably, a world that is still reeling from the loss of their beloved Chosen Domenic Barrow and Ellery Caldwell.
But Destiny is the bedrock of Aldrish society and it isn’t done with its Chosen yet.
Though this time, they are done with Destiny. No more monsters. No more cataclysms. No more Chosen Ones. Forever.
Nightcurse
by Emma HindsPublished by: Wednesday Books
on November 10, 2026
Genres: LGBTQIA+, Paranormal, Romance, Young Adult
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Cursed with eternity, haunted by love–discover the truth about living forever in this achingly atmospheric dark academia fantasy.
Emrys Swift is so dead. One hundred and fifty seven years worth of dead, to be exact. He’s a Revenant, nightcursed, destined to be stuck being seventeen forever. Hidden away, he spends his infinite days as an undead librarian of witchlore at the NeverEnd library–until a new Revenant arrives and magical artifacts start going missing, jeopardizing his beloved home.
Emrys’s mortal enemy and annoyingly attractive shapeshifter Aubrey Vale is determined to solve the mystery–with Emrys’s help. Suddenly Emrys and Aubrey are magically bonded together on a quest into the dark and frost-bitten world of night-kin. But as Emrys and Aubrey interrogate ghosts and face drowning by mermaids, deathly creatures aren’t the only spectres haunting them. With the ghoulish Night Hunt chasing them down, can they outrun the secrets of Emrys’ death and Aubrey’s life? And if they can save NeverEnd’s future, can they have a future together?
Hauntingly gorgeous and tender, Emma Hinds’ Nightcurse is both a Gothic mystery and an enemies-to-lovers romance about navigating life and love in the face of death.
Blood of Silver (Gilded Moon, #1)
by Allie NguyenPublished by: Margaret K. McElderry Books
on November 10, 2026
Genres: Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult
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Seeking answers about her mother’s past leads a teen to a magical realm where she must learn to wield a rare magic to keep ravenous monsters at bay in this whimsically imagined young adult fantasy perfect for fans of Tahereh Mafi and A. B. Poranek.
The day of her mother’s funeral, Linh is visited by a strange boy who seems vaguely familiar and claims to know secrets about her mother’s past. Feeling alone in her grief and desperate to hold onto what’s left of her mom, Linh follows the boy, Elior, and is transported into another world.
Ebrirene is a realm governed by six ancient magics—light, fire, earth, water, nature, and space—and populated by talking flowers and powerful mages. Its beauty and power make it the perfect target for the greedy, vicious demons at its border. Linh’s mother used her space magic to seal the demons’ portal back when she was a princess of Ebrirene, and now Elior, the crown prince, has brought Linh here in the hope that she can strengthen her mother’s weakening protection.
Linh does her best to adapt to her fantastical new surroundings and master powers she didn’t even know she had, but not everyone wants her to succeed at her task. Someone enters her into the annual tournament at the mages’ academy, which promises to be deadlier than ever before. Now, caught in a web of court intrigue and unsettled by her dangerous attraction to the prince, Linh must fight for survival against enemies that may be closer to her than she fears.
Isle of Teeth
by Tessa BarbosaPublished by: Simon & Schuster
on November 10, 2026
Genres: Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Horror, Young Adult
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For fans of FRANKENSTEIN and THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS, Tessa Barbosa's ISLE OF TEETH is a poignant dark fantasy that centers on two remarkable individuals, each labelled a monster in their own right—their destinies divided by empire, their fates intertwined by Lady Death.
Lady Death always comes to collect.Matiu Frankel joined the imperial military to escape his childhood: his father’s wretched creations, his witch-mother’s loyalty to Lady Death, and the haunting voice in his own head. With no choice in assignment, however, he returns home to Song—and to a waiting nightmare. A revenant attack waylays his mission and Matiu, being part-Songi, is accused of working with native insurgents. To remove the bounty on his head, Matiu must prove his loyalty to the Lyssian Empire by infiltrating the resistance and capturing the monster they’ve weaponized.
But Calyx is not a monster. A revenant pieced together from animals and dead Songi, yes. Abandoned by her makers to rot on the Isle of Teeth, yes. But not a monster. At least, not yet. Without medicine, Calyx and her siblings risk losing their humanity to Lady Death’s whispers.
Calyx has three weeks to find a cure. Matiu has even less time to clear his name. In their desperation to survive, they turn to each other, becoming entangled in each other’s stories—and in the larger story of empire and resistance. Amidst growing tensions and the echoing calls of the goddess of death, Matiu and Calyx’s relationship transforms into a dark fable about those who have spent their lives with a boot on their neck—and what they would sacrifice to stand tall once more.
Luck of the Draw
by Christine Suggson November 10, 2026
Genres: Graphic Novel, LGBTQIA+, Young Adult
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From the creator of
¡Ay, Mija!
, a budding cartoonist attends an elite pre-college art program, where the only limit to their potential is ... their budget.
Luck of the Draw
raises the how do you paint your future with bargain store brushes?It's the summer before senior year, and Mar Ortega is holding a ticket out of an acceptance letter to a prestigious pre-college program at an elite art school in Baltimore. Suddenly, Mar’s deepest desires are within studying illustration, making a real friend group ... and maybe even using new pronouns?
At the Baltimore Institute of Art, everything feels perfect. Mar is thrilled by the artsy community and incredible, engaging instructors, but when the time comes to buy painting supplies, the hefty price tags feel like a slap in the face. In fact, everything about this college is expensive, and there aren’t many students that look like Mar. As the days go by, Mar begins to wonder if they truly belong at art school ... but it’s also the only place they’ve ever felt truly at home?
Inspired by creator Christine Suggs’s own experience attending a pre-college art program, Luck of the Draw illustrates what can happen when reality becomes part of your dream.
Ghosted: An entirely unhinged and spooky story about getting ghosted and getting revenge
by Talia TuckerPublished by: Feiwel and Friends
on November 10, 2026
Genres: Humor, LGBTQIA+, Paranormal, Young Adult
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What if you got ghosted and had the chance to do the funniest thing by haunting him right back? What if it consumed your every waking thought like a girl possessed, fighting for brain space with your sleep paralysis demon and your first serious girl crush?
What then???
Keziah is very familiar with ghosts—after all, a sleep paralysis demon has been her closest companion for the last few years, and she's constantly getting ghosted. Which isn't really helping her get a date for the Homecoming dance. And then she meets a guy who just transferred to the all-boys school nearby. He's charming, cute, and—unlike with her other dates—she actually sees potential with him.
Too bad he ghosts her, too.
This time, though, she isn't going to take it so easily. Not when Guy and his friends mess with her real true love, Mr. Kim's food truck, and especially not when she finds out the real reason Guy transferred in the first place. If he wants to ghost, she'll haunt him right back to where he came from.
Enacting revenge while her sleep paralysis demon keeps bugging her certainly won’t be easy but, with help from a cute girl, let the real (and well-deserved) ghosting begin!
Lavender & Hemlock
by Lili WilkinsonPublished by: Delacorte Press
on November 10, 2026
Genres: Fantasy, LGBTQIA+, Romance, Young Adult
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A housemaid's quiet life is disrupted when the arrival of a mysterious visitor causes her to question the nature of her seemingly-charming cottage home in this sweet, cozy romantasy with a dark heart.
Step into the Oubliette and forget your troubles....
Housemaid Tansy’s days are all the same. Her only duties are to tend to her charge, old Lady Aster, and take care of their quaint cottage home. The seaside house is charming, peaceful, and above all, isolated. Tansy can't remember the last time she left...or when she arrived.
Merit is a Carrion Knight. A servant of the dark entity the Unmaker, she has been raised to be a monster. But when she's wounded during a routine raid, she stumbles through a mysterious door… and finds herself tumbling into the Oubliette.
When the two meet, an instant connection forms, and a crack appears in Oubliette's perfect façade. As the bond between Merit and Tansy grows and powerful feelings rise to the surface, Tansy must question not only what she wants, but who she is. Because the origins of this charming world are darker than she could imagine—and the key to uncovering them might lie with Tansy herself.
Dream Girl Disaster
by Balazs LorincziPublished by: Top Shelf Productions
on November 10, 2026
Genres: Contemporary, Graphic Novel, LGBTQIA+, Young Adult
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Two rivals put aside their differences to help their friend make a student film. Easy, right? In your dreams!
Jo and Susie are best friends. Helen and Susie are also best friends. Helen and Jo, however... well, let's just say things can quickly get out of hand when the two are in the same room... or the same set, shooting Susie's action-movie project for film school.
As the lead actress, Helen is nailing it, while Jo is struggling to come up with music for the film. But when Jo’s nights fill with eerily vivid dreams that transport her into the story alongside Helen's gruff heroine, she wakes up full of tunes. Is there something more than just hatred between Jo and Helen? What will Susie think about all this? Will they be able to finish the film before the tension on set becomes explosive? Or are these three dream girls headed for disaster?
Straight to the Source
by K-Ming ChangPublished by: Holiday House
on November 10, 2026
Genres: Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, LGBTQIA+, Romance, Young Adult
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I Kissed Shara Wheeler meets Last Night at the Telegraph Club in this stylish sapphic YA romance from the award-winning author of Bestiary.
Taiwanese American teen and aspiring journalist Wendy Lin wants nothing more than to witness the downfall of her personal nemesis, the annoyingly perfect high achiever Helen Ouyang.
Yep, Helen Ouyang. As in, Wendy's childhood best friend. Now most-decidedly-ex-best-friend. Perhaps, maybe, still her unrequited-crush-friend. After a falling out that may or may not have involved some simmering romantic feelings, the two haven't spoken in years, and Wendy has had to witness Helen’s meteoric rise to high school success from the sidelines.
But not for long.Chasing up a lead for the school paper, Wendy soon turns up a major story with Helen at its center—one involving a mysterious fire that destroyed a building and tore apart an immigrant community a decade earlier. Wendy investigates, certain she finally has the dirt she needs to bring Helen down. But when the girls reconnect, old feelings come rushing to the surface…and with them, long-buried skeletons in both girls' family closets.
The Revolution of Olivia Witherson
by S. IsabellePublished by: Harlequin Teen
on November 10, 2026
Genres: Historical Fiction, Romance, Young Adult
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In this engrossing companion to The Great Misfortune of Stella Sedgwick set in 1860s Paris, prim and proper Olivia Witherson is poised to become the wife of a wealthy businessman, until she's shown a side of the city she's never seen--and considers a potential future she never imagined. Perfect for fans of Bridgerton and The Davenports.
Olivia Witherson has it all figured out. Once she's married to Samuel Desir, a handsome (and rich) businessman in the making, she'll be able to step into the life of upper-class comfort she's always known she's destined for. Getting kidnapped by a gang of ruffians and being held for ransom in their grubby headquarters on the outskirts of Paris... was not part of the plan.
Olivia is sure that Jac Santil, head of the Saints Tristes gang, is the most loathsome, infuriating person she's ever met. But the longer she spends with the Saints, the more good she sees them doing--distributing food and medicine to the poor, taking in orphaned children, and organizing the exploited laborers of Paris, the same workers who staff Samuel's factories. Soon, Olivia must acknowledge that there may be more to the Saints, and to Jac, than meets the eye, and that the life of luxury she'd always dreamed of may never come to fruition.
Trove: A Graphic Novel
by Danie StirlingPublished by: HarperAlley
on November 10, 2026
Genres: Contemporary, Graphic Novel, Young Adult
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From the author of Crumbs, comes a heartfelt, funny, and unmissable graphic novel about fandom, friendship, and the adventure of chasing what matters most, perfect for fans of The Girl from the Sea and Pumpkinheads.
Jules and Ness have always had Trove. The blockbuster fantasy book series brought them together, fueled their epic sleepovers, and made them inseparable. But everything changes when Jules reveals she’s moving away, and the Trove Sleepover Club will officially be over.
As if that weren’t devastating enough, the girls learn that the series’ author is retiring without finishing the long-awaited seventh and final book. Jules is ready to let go, but Ness refuses to give up hope. When a mysterious message hints at the existence of the missing manuscript, Ness convinces Jules to join her on one last adventure: a trip to FabuCon, the ultimate Trove fan convention.
There, among cosplayers, panel lines, and screaming superfans, the girls must prove themselves true fans. Along the way, Jules and Ness discover that the real challenge isn’t just saving their favorite series, it’s figuring out whether their friendship can survive the changes ahead.
With humor, heart, and an irresistible love of fandom, Danie Stirling’s Trove is a story about holding on, letting go, and the stories that bring us together.
Until the Last Light Goes Out
by Courtney GouldPublished by: Wednesday Books
on November 10, 2026
Genres: Horror, LGBTQIA+, Romance, Young Adult
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Flickering neon lights and hot Miami nights turn deadly in this gothic horror about a daughter investigating her best friend’s disappearance at an abandoned island resort.
You may not escape, but the truth will.
Twenty-five years ago, the Ripley Memorial High School senior class entered the luxurious Kaleidoscope Key resort deep in the remote Florida Keys. Despite international intrigue and years of investigation, no one truly knows how the 183 students died. And they never will, since the five survivors of the massacre have never spoken a word about what happened to them that night.
Paige Keller, daughter of one of the Kaleidoscope Key Massacre’s infamous survivors, has grown up determined to steer her life away from the resort and the unsolved mysteries her ex-best friend, KJ, can’t leave alone. Paige has moved to a fancy new college and it seems that, finally, she’s banished the shadows of Kaleidoscope Key completely. But when she’s called home on the 25th anniversary of the massacre, she finds that KJ has gone missing.
Paige knows there’s only one place KJ could be: her obsession, the now-abandoned resort. When Paige and the remaining Survivors’ Kids go in after her, they’re forced to confront their―and their parents―pasts once and for all.
Kaleidoscope Key is waiting, and it's starving. Once they find their way inside, there may not be a way out. And one way or another, the truth of the massacre will come to light.
Captivating and chilling, Courtney Gould’s Until The Last Light Goes Out is a horror story, a love story, and an ode to the pain passed between generations that you won’t soon forget.
Our Aimless Nights, Volume 2
by KoumoriPublished by: Ink Pop
on November 10, 2026
Genres: Graphic Novel, Romance, Young Adult
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Golden retriever girl meets black cat boy! Two teen opposites fall for each other during quiet nights at a convenience store in this popular digital manga — now in print for the first time in English. A sweet romance perfect for fans of Skip and Loafer.
Peppy high school girl Chika and quiet boy Waya seem like they have nothing in common. However, they share a secret. They meet every week outside the convenience store where Waya works. Slowly, the two start learning more about each other. Before either of them knows it, something begins to bloom between them in the moonlight.
Let the Sky Fall Trilogy (Boxed Set): Let the Sky Fall; Let the Storm Break; Let the Wind Rise
by Shannon MessengerPublished by: Simon Pulse
on November 10, 2026
Genres: Paranormal, Romance, Young Adult
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Now with a brand-new look! All three books are now available together in one paperback boxed set—with a bonus epilogue in book three!
For the first printings only! Each paperback features sprayed edges while the special edition supply lasts.
From Shannon Messenger, the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of the Keeper of the Lost Cities series, comes the Sky Fall paranormal romance trilogy about two teens with wind powers caught up in a war.
Seventeen-year-old Vane Weston has no idea how he survived the category five tornado that killed his parents. And he has no idea if the beautiful, dark-haired girl who’s swept through his dreams every night since the storm is real. But he hopes she is.
Seventeen-year-old Audra is a sylph, an air elemental. She walks on the wind, can translate its alluring songs, and can even coax it into a weapon with a simple string of commands. She’s also Vane’s guardian and has sworn an oath to protect him at all costs—even if it means sacrificing her own life.
When a hasty mistake reveals their location to the enemy who murdered both their families, Audra’s forced to help Vane remember who he is. He has a power to claim—the secret language of the West Wind, which only he can understand. But unlocking his heritage will also unlock the memory Audra needs him to forget. And as the storm bears down on them, she starts to realize the greatest danger might not be the warriors coming to destroy them—but the forbidden romance that’s grown between them.
This action-packed and searingly romantic boxed set includes:
Let the Sky Fall
Let the Storm Break
Let the Wind Rise
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