The Name and the Key by Kristina Elyse Butke is about Lily Bellamy, a teenage girl whose world slowly falls apart after her mother vanishes and is later found drowned in the marshlands near their home. Lily has grown up in the shadow of her...

Kristina Elyse Butke’s The Step and the Walk, book two in The Darkening Gate series, follows Andresh Zatavier, a magician studying literature at the University of Evandra, where an alchemical text offers a path to defeating death. Determined to pursue the Magnum Opus, a ritual...