"Imagine an America very similar to our own. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice cream. There are some differences. This America has been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples, those Indigenous and those not. Some of these forces are charmingly everyday, like the ability to make an orb of light appear or travel across the world through rings of fungi. But other forces are less charming and...

Will the Lands survive yet another face-off with the man who's been hunting them since the moment they ignited? Stranded on a boat on the Mediterranean sea, Adam and Elakshi were hoping to experience some kind of downtime. But Agent Hardman from MI6 has found them again, and this time, he's in a position to wipe them out for good. He soon learns he's not the only one on Adam and Elakshi's tail...there's another agent in the picture, and his involvement...

Told from more than a dozen alternating viewpoints, this spellbinding collection of stories follows eighteen students at the Galileo Academy for the Extraordinary as they each try to solve the murder of a professor, discovering that magic doesn't always play by the rules.