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Ravenfall

New York Times bestseller and BARNES & NOBLE’s October ‘23 young readers pick!

This delightful MG contemporary fantasy series is Practical Magic for the Scooby-Doo crowd, and full of quirky characters and a charming, immersive setting.

One magical inn, two kids with supernatural powers, and an ancient Celtic creature trying to destroy their world by Halloween night...

Thirteen-year-old Annabella Ballinkay has never been normal, even by her psychic family’s standards. Every generation uses their abilities to help run the Ravenfall Inn, a sprawling, magical B&B at the crossroads of the human world and the Otherworld. But it’s hard to contribute when your only power is foreseeing death.

So when fourteen-year-old Colin Pierce arrives at Ravenfall searching for his missing older brother and the supernatural creature who killed their parents, Anna jumps at the chance to help. But the mysteries tied to Colin go much deeper than either of them expects. . . .

As the two team up to find answers, they unearth Colin’s family’s secret past and discover that Colin has powers beyond his imagination. And now the supernatural creature, one with eerie origins in Celtic mythology, is coming after him. If Anna and Colin can’t stop the creature by Halloween night, the veil to the Otherworld could be ripped open—which would spell destruction for their world as they know it.

Magical traditions, creatures, and objects abound in this intriguing setting, offering possibilities for sequels...Largely spellbinding.
— Kirkus

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Kalyn Josephson

Kalyn Josephson is a fantasy writer living in the California Bay Area. She loves books, cats, books with cats, and making up other worlds to live in for a while. 

She is the author of the New York Times bestselling Ravenfall series, which was nominated as a Best MG Book of the Year in the 2022 Goodreads Choice Awards, and called “an engaging and eerie magical mystery” by Publishers Weekly.

Booklist praised her YA fantasy, THIS DARK DESCENT, as “an uncommonly arresting fantasy” in their starred review and also selected it as one of their 2023 Editors’ Choice picks. Her other books include THE STORM CROW and THE CROW RIDER.

Represented by Carrie Pestritto.