I’ve been rotting in prison my entire life…the life I can remember anyway, which began a year ago in fire and pain. It’s as if the gods themselves tossed me aside and forgot me, leaving me to burn.

Then a vision sent from Poseidon himself steps out from the surf and into my world with maddeningly cool hands and gentle words that light up my soul in a whole new way.

Beneath the city of Toronto lies a secret, magical kingdom called Fairhaven—one Princess Esme finds dreadfully dull. She spends her days pulling pranks and ruining parties, much to her father, King Tedros’s dismay. When she sabotages the anniversary ball, he finally takes the advice of the other families and kicks her out of Fairhaven to teach her a lesson.

It started with a box for collecting heart wishes…

Among the constants in Taylor Mulvaney’s life are the heart-shaped box made by her father, the mysterious hearts she sometimes sees, and her longtime crush on Luke Montgomery. The valentine box has a way of connecting her and Luke time and again – and even after Luke breaks her heart before leaving their hometown of Sweetwater, Kentucky for good, she never gets completely over him.

"Once upon a time, there lived three witches."

All her life, Amarrah’s grandmother told her stories of three women, members of a Babylonian king’s harem, who practiced forbidden magic.

On her deathbed, her gidaty confessed that the tales were not just stories. They were the oral records of a timeless curse and a terrible wrong that must be made right. She leaves Amarrah an antique box she calls the witches’ chest. She says it has been kept safe through generations of her family for the eventual day when the three return to claim it.

Hot-tempered and a warrior to the bone, Shannon is the most daring of "Merlin Mauraders." Her assignment: stop the fiendishly cruel assassin who is targeting a top British ballistics expert's family. Marshalling her intelligence, fighting skills, and weapons is easy. Being forced to work with the rakishly handsome Russian spy she loathes is something else.