A quarter of a century ago, a great plague ravaged Saurellis, killing thousands of people and leaving hundreds upon hundreds of orphans.  Some have gone on to make lives for themselves; others… not so much. Kang Yoorae is one of the former.  A rising star in the capital city of the Saurellian archipelago in her role as magistrata, she is an accomplished sigil mage and a respected enforcer of the law.  But in the face of rising dark magic from across the seas, she has also joined The N

Im Yeonhee loves her country.  She really does.  But some people in it are kind of a waste of space, and there are problems and divisions in Taderra that run a bit too deep to fix. Part-time artist, full-time separationist republican, and current university student, Yeonhee has some solutions, and as a leading student activist, she has a very large following. National health care and welfare benefits cost billions every year.  Racial tensions between the largely working and mi

Yoo Minjeong is kidnapped in a case of mistaken identity.  The men who took her were after Yoo Minjeong, daughter of the Minister for Science (her father) and Lee Mira, PhD, a specialist in genetics.  Instead, they got Yoo Minjeong, Nobody Much and mute daughter of Nobody Important. Once the men realise the mistake, however, they aren't that keen on letting her go, even if she can't speak.  For one, she's seen their secret lair in the forest.  For two, she knows why they're there.  An

"No, seriously, though, what high school student who's just about to graduate films some blatantly dangerous guys beating somebody to death in a dark alleyway?" "Oh Semi, apparently."   Semi's graduation present was a death threat from the country's biggest mafia boss and a hasty eviction to the United States.  Nine months later, she's in hospital making a near miraculous recovery from an assassination attempt from

Park Jinsu is an aspiring scientist and daughter of the richest technological conglomerate owner in South Korea.  Her parents' company has spent years investing in building a time machine, even despite setbacks such as the Byun family claiming that they stole the patents for it, and now that she's nearly seventeen, Jinsu has been allowed to help work on small, unimportant bits of the nearly completed Attayear, due to be launched at the annual Physics for Young People student conference.  As t