This is the original, unedited version of Light as a Feather, Book #1. This book was the inspiration for the Hulu Original Series. The revised version is now available in bookstores throughout the USA & Canada from Simon Pulse. McKenna Brady thinks her junior year of high school is going to be the best ever when she's welcomed into the elite group of popular girls at Weeping Willow High School led by blonde, gorgeous Olivia Richmond. Prior to junior year, McKenna was known in her small town as the girl whose twin sister died in a tragic house fire, and she's overjoyed at the prospect of redefining her identity. She has a date to the Homecoming dance with Olivia's handsome older brother, and a good chance of being elected to student council. For the first time since McKenna's parents divorced, things are looking up. But everything changes the night of Olivia's Sweet Sixteen sleepover birthday party. Violet, the shy, mysterious new girl in town, suggests that the girls play a scary game called Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board, during which Violet makes up elaborate stories about the future ways in which beautiful Olivia, brassy Candace, and athletic Mischa will die. The game unsettles McKenna because she's already escaped death once in her life, but she doesn't want to ruin her friends' fun. It's only a game, she reminds herself.

❝under their armor is a shining beacon of hope❞ A realm still suffering the aftermath of the original demon invasion. A world splintered from the core. A people frightened of the monsters that would one day rule their lands. A life ostracized from society. A gift that may save the world. A prodigy killer, a black market dealer, a ruthless thief, an imprisoned criminal, and a traumatized civilian all have a vengeance against the soulless demons that stormed their world years ago. The five magic-wielders still feel the consequences of the fight against survival and oppression, a fight that left them all with a determination to kill the beasts. Disgraced, disowned, and abandoned, they have no one but themselves to care for against the returning threat of another demon invasion, but this time, the Demon Queen leads the fight and aims to destroy the entire Iaecaean government and the realm of Myiraz. While the government is violently trying to cover up the signs of the monsters crossing through the worlds, the misfits travel between the three Sister Cities and try to staunch the growing threat. But their bravery aside, they are still criminals at heart. And yet there is no one else to trust. And when you have no one to trust, you turn to the most unlikely of people. But people don't look to murderers and thieves to save them.