Commonworld Chronicles

NO ONE KNOWS EVERYTHING FOREVEREmma Mathews never believed she was like everyone else, but neither did she think herself crazy. Meeting Joe Castlellaw, Henry Dearborn High's newest student, was like waking on a cold rock in a strange place, the world bathed in liquid moonlight. Everything is different now…and fraught. Visions of a dark forest, a screaming woman and blood haunt Emma's dreams, and not only at night. But Joe's lonely beauty makes her float on air, and she would follow him anywhere: out of high school and through the great tree, to a world of poetry and political savagery, of magic and murder, to a life that is entirely theirs and yet unlike anything they have ever known. In a fantastical world where everything is possible, some are more equal than others.

A WORLD UNSEENOn the other side of our trees is a place of magic and energy. And love. Everyone there has a defining power, but the Soulmate bond is universal-and unassailable. Or so say the Ones in Power.They speak a lie. Like here on Earth, in the Commonworld there are those reviled and unwanted, like Thalia Salic, whose only crime is being Invisible. There are those persecuted for their parentage, like Sfodro Vatic. There are those who coveted for their knowledge, like nine-year-old Sandy Mathews. There are the Worthless and the Loveless, and there are those who oppose evil, like Emma. In no world can we help what we're born. We can't always understand who we love. We can only decide how we're going to live. In a fantastical world where everything is possible, some are more equal than others.