"A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret. Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages. When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he's given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel...

Fatima lives in the city of Noor, on the Silk Road, which is currently protected by the Ifrit, djinn of order and reason, from attacks by the violent and ruthless Shayateen djinn--but Fatima was infused with the fire of the Ifrit who died saving her when she was four years old, and when one of the most important Ifrit dies she finds herself drawn into the intrigues of the court, the affairs of the djinn, and the very real dangers of a magical battlefield....

"Pirouette Leiter, the puppetmaster's apprentice, is given the most important and dangerous job of her life: to build a wooden assassin for the tyrant of Tavia. The Margrave of Tavia hasn't emerged from Wolfspire Hall in over a decade. His palace has been a silent citadel on the hill overlooking the village, until a peculiar commission reaches the puppetmaster and his daughter--they must make one hundred wooden soldiers for him as quickly as possible,...

Seeking revenge against the wily crook who betrayed him, Jem Barbary becomes an apprentice to Alfred the bogler before becoming embroiled in an underground war in a city where orphans have been disappearing.