With his parents lying unconscious in a hospital, Sik will have no choice but to turn for help to Ishtar, the Goddess of Love and War. He’ll stop at nothing to get it, including unleashing a deadly sickness on Manhattan. It seems Sik’s brother brought something home with him from Iraq, and now the Plague God Nergal wants it. Things get worse, however – MUCH worse – when the ancient gods of Iraq focus their attention on the grief-stricken family. Still coping with the crushing grief of his brother’s death while visiting Iraq, it is just about all Sik can manage to help out at his parent’s deli and keep functioning normally at school. Can she unravel the tangled web of loyalties and motives to save her sister? In this fantasy novel, Korean mythology and culture take center stage.

However, the harder Riley works to fulfill her end of the bargain, the more it becomes clear that the clans, magic, and her family are all less straightforward than she thought. The Goddess proposes a deal: if Riley brings her the last fallen star, she will resurrect Hettie. That is until she finds out she is not a saram after all – she’s the orphan of banished witches from an outcast clan, and her willingness to cast an illegal spell has turned the elders against her.ĭesperate, Riley and Hettie appeal to the clan Goddess for help, but things go from bad to worse when the summoning spell sucks the life of Hettie. Scorned and mistrusted by other community members, Riley wants nothing more than to fit in and be accepted. Unfortunately for Riley, she’s adopted and has the bad luck of being the clan’s only saram (non-Witch). Riley Oh belongs to a clan of powerful healing witches. This fantasy novel is steeped in the magic and grandeur of Greek mythology – you won’t want to put it down. It turns out that finding out about her past will test her present family bonds to the limits.

Her inheritance is so much more than an old house: there is a locked garden crammed with poisonous plants, a magnificent apothecary, and strangers who are too keen for her to open the apothecary back up. Unsure of whether she will find a fresh new start for her family in the house and town she came from or the answers to the secret of her powers, Briseis makes the trip to Rheinbeck. Then, hope arrives in the form of an estate lawyer carrying the paperwork for an inheritance from Briseis’ birth mother’s family. Her friends have shied away from her, her powers terrify her, and financial difficulties are threatening the whole family on top of her secret magical concerns. Publisher: Bloomsbury | ISBN: 9781547603909īriseis loves her life with her moms, but her disturbing gift of controlling plants mars everything.

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