When Lord Death comes to claim 16-year-old Keturah while she is lost in the King's Forest, she charms him with her story and is granted a twenty-four hour reprieve to seek her one true love.

Life becomes more interesting for Ananka Fishbein she discovers an underground room in the park across from her New York City apartment and meets a mysterious girl called Kiki Strike who claims that she, too, wants to explore the subterranean world. (Book one of a series).

On the day of an important music competition, talented but painfully introverted and nervous Deirdre Monaghan is helped to perform by the compelling and enigmatic Luke Dillon and finds herself inexorably drawn into the mysteries and dangers of the faerie world. (Book one of a series)

Vowing to bring down the omnipotent crime boss running the city, a "family" of orphans called the Gentlemen Bastards, led by the eccentric Locke Lamora, sets out to beat the Capa at his own criminal game. (Book one of a series)

The world is poised on the verge of disaster, and only one man, the rather inept Wizard Rincewind, can save the future. (Book one of the Discworld series)

When her evil aunt Redd kills her parents and seizes the throne, young Alyss Heart is forced to flee Wonderland through the Pool of Tears. She finds herself living in Victorian Oxford as Alice Liddell and struggles to keep memories of her kingdom intact until she can return and claim her rightful throne.

A hero named Kvothe, now living under an assumed name as the humble proprietor of an inn, recounts his transformation from a magically gifted young man into the most notorious wizard, musician, thief, and assassin in his world. (Book one of the Kingkiller Chronicle)

A manuscript from the lost civilization of Edil-Amarandah chronicles the experiences of sixteen-year-old Maerad, an orphan gifted in the magic and power of the Bards, as she escapes from slavery and begins to learn how to use her Gift to stave off the evil Darkness that threatens to consume her world. (First book of Pellinor)

Irish teenager J.J. Liddy discovers that time is leaking from his world into Tir na nOg, the land of the fairies, and when he attempts to stop the leak he finds out a lot about his family history, the music that he loves, and a crime his great-grandfather may or may not have committed.

After she is chosen to be Bearer-of-the-God, Mirany questions the established order and sets out, along with a musician and a scribe, to find the legitimate heir of the religious leader known as the Archon (Book 1 of The Oracle Prophecies).

Thirteen-year-old Jo suddenly finds her humdrum life turned upside down when Colonel Anatoly Korsakov shows up at her aunt's party and announces he has come to protect her.

When Poison leaves her home in the marshes of Gull to retrieve the infant sister who was snatched by the phairies, she and a group of unusual friends survive encounters with the inhabitants of various Realms, and Poison herself confronts a surprising destiny.