"The highly anticipated sequel to Melissa Albert's beloved, New York Times bestselling debut The Hazel Wood! In The Night Country, Alice Proserpine dives back into a menacing, mesmerizing world of dark fairy tales and hidden doors. Follow her and Ellery Finch as they learn The Hazel Wood was just the beginning, and that worlds die not with a whimper, but a bang. With Finch's help, Alice escaped the Hinterland and her reclusive grandmother's dark legacy....

A girl is transformed, through instruction in life at court, determination, and magic, from sullen, graceless Ben into Crown Princess Benevolence, a fit ruler of the kindgom of Montagne as it faces war with neighboring Drachensbett.

Delilah reads a fairy tale she found in the school library multiple times and feels as though it is more than words on a page. One day she finds out that the handsome prince, castle and evil villain are real, but from a different world, and she wonders how this meeting of fantasy and reality can work.

This year, best friends Sophie and Agatha are about to discover where all the lost children go: the fabled School for Good & Evil, where ordinary boys and girls are trained to be fairy tale heroes and villains. As the most beautiful girl in Gavaldon, Sophie has dreamed of being kidnapped into an enchanted world her whole life. With her pink dresses, glass slippers, and devotion to good deeds, she knows she'll earn top marks at the School for Good...

In the third book of the chronicles of Prydain, Princess Eilonwy is sent to the Isle of Mona for training where she is bewitched by the evil enchantress Achren, so Taran and other friends must try to rescue her.