"Alice and five other apprentice Readers face the fight of their lives when they are sent into the magical library of a late rival Reader--a library that's still protected by a vicious guardian"--

In the lower wards of the port city of Kahnzoka, young ward boss Isoka comes to collect when there's money owing. When her ability to access the Well of Combat is discovered by the Empire, she's sent on an impossible mission: steal Soliton, a legendary ghost ship-- a ship from which no one has ever returned. If she fails, her sister's life is forfeit. When Isoka becomes part of the ship's brutal crew, facing off against unimaginable threats, nothing...

"Gyre finally sees a way to overthrow the all-powerful Twilight Order. But he'll have to gain the alliance of both the ghouls and the human rebels to the south in order to even stand have a chance. And uniting them won't be so simple. His sister Maya is still a soldier of the Order. But after clashing with her brother, she isn't so certain where her loyalties lie. Chasing the origins of a mysterious artifact to a long-lost library, she just might...

Isoka and her crew of mage-bloods return to Kahnzoka with the legendary ghost ship, and join the rebellion helmed by her sister, Tori.

Alice has learned a lot in the six months since her father disappeared and she was sent to live with her mysterious uncle Geryon. She knows she's a Reader, with the ability to read herself inside certain books, and that not all books are the safe worlds she's always imagined. She's fought a dragon and a tree-sprite, and discovered how to take on the shape of magical creatures and use their powers. Now it's time for Alice to venture outside Geryon's...