Hallow Fable

Some bloodlines open doors. Hers is the key they've been building
for a century.

Pumpkin Oaksgourd arrives at Windgates Academy with three things: a deck
of silver-inked cards, a pair of eyes that see through the world's lies, and
a bloodline nobody will discuss in front of her.

The eyes are her father's gift. Her father is sealed somewhere underneath
a century of silence. Something that used to be him is still reaching.

When a piece of the Hollow Flame surfaces and practitioners start dying for
it, Pumpkin finds herself at the center of a war that everyone agreed was
finished in 1899. The Ember Concord disagrees. They have been tending their
fire for over a hundred years, and they have decided that what Pumpkin is -
the right blood, the right Sight, the right key - makes her the most useful
person in Hallowmore.

She has three allies who chose her when they didn't have to, a mother who
disappeared and was never buried, and a truth about herself she isn't sure
she wants.

The most dangerous thing about her eyes isn't what they see.

It's what the dark says back.

Hallow Fable is Book One of The Sorcière Chronicles -
dark fantasy for readers who want magic that costs something, villains who
mean every word, and a girl who refuses to be anyone's instrument.

For fans of Ninth House, A Deadly Education, and Neverwhere.