As Shannon continues her evocative, smart, and exciting paranormal-futuristic Bone Season series (The Bone Season, 2013; The Mime Order, 2015), Paige Mahoney, a mere 19 years old, has won a battle royal and become the Underqueen of the Unnaturals, clairvoyants cruelly persecuted by the Scion empire. Still recovering from her combat wounds, Paige struggles to establish her rule while grappling with unnerving doubts about the loyalty of Warden, the rebel immortal Rephaite she relies on and, at great risk, loves. But there is no time for healing or reflection. Scion has created a new diabolical sensor technology that instantly identifies clairvoyants, now designated enemies of the state. This is all-out war, and capturing Paige is top priority for Scion Grand Commander Hildred Vance. As Scion declares martial law, Paige, reckless, courageous, and heartbroken, sacrifices everything to search for the source of the sensor's mysterious power. As before, Shannon vividly and purposefully realizes each meticulously detailed setting, from London's underground to outposts in Scotland, while infusing her imaginative, passionate, and gripping saga with profound insights into humankind's long, bloody history of tyranny and the radiant ones who zealously fight for freedom and justice. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Shannon has a following, who will be marshaled by a mammoth global marketing campaign.

The third installment of this fantasy series (The Bone Season, 2013; The Mime Order, 2015) expands the reaches of the fight against Scion far beyond London.Paige Mahoney, though only 19, serves as the Underqueen of the Mime Order. She's the leader of the Unnatural community in London, a city serving under the ever more militaristic Scion, whose government is based on ridding the streets of "enemy" clairvoyants. But Paige knows the truth about Scion's roots—that an Unnatural and immortal race called the Rephaim, who come from the Netherworld, forced Scion into existence to gain control over the growing human clairvoyant community. Scion's hatred of clairvoyants now runs so deep that Paige is forced to consider moving her entire syndicate into hiding while she aims to stop Scion's next attack: there are rumors that Senshield, a scanner able to detect certain levels of clairvoyance, is going portable. Which means no Unnatural citizen is safe—their safe houses, their back-alley routes, are all at risk of detection. Paige's main enemy this time around is Hildred Vance, mastermind of Scion's military branch, ScionIDE. Vance creates terror by anticipating her opponent's next moves, so with each step that Paige and her team take to dismantle Senshield, Vance is hovering nearby to toy with Paige's will. Luckily, Paige is never separated for long from her Rephaite ally, Warden, as his presence is grounding. But their growing relationship, strengthened by their connection to the spirit world, takes a back seat to the constant, fast-paced action. The mesmerizing qualities of this series—insight into the different orders of clairvoyance as well as the intricately imagined details of Paige's "dreamwalking" gift, with which she is able to enter others' minds—fade to the background as this seven-part series climbs to its highest point of tension. Shannon's world begins to feel more generically dystopian, but as Paige fights to locate and understand the spiritual energy powering Senshield, it is never less than captivating. A tantalizing, otherworldy adventure with imagination that burns like fire.