Enchanter's Child Books in Order

Enchanter's Child takes place in the city of Luma and its surrounding wilds, in a kingdom where Enchantment has been outlawed. Anyone caught using magic is dragged away to the Vaults, lightless dungeons beneath the streets, and children suspected of having Enchanter parents grow up under a cloud of fear.

At the centre is Alex, a girl who treasures a set of Enchanted cards that once belonged to her unknown parents. When she brushes her fingers over them, they spring to life and show glimpses of the present and the future. Her foster family mostly wants to keep their heads down, but her sharp tongued foster sister Zerra betrays her, and Alex is forced to flee with only her little foster brother, Louie, for company.

Outside the city walls, escape is not simple either. The king has created supernatural Hauntings that roam the land at twilight, hunting down Enchanters and their children. They come in many eerie forms, from a huge hawk that blots out the sky to a night wraith called the Grey Walker, and they are drawn again and again to Alex, who refuses to accept that she might truly be an Enchanter's child.

Across Twilight Hauntings and its sequel Midnight Train, Alex learns more about her father, Hagos RavenStarr, and the role he played in creating the Hauntings she now wants to destroy. Her search for a lost talisman known as the Tau takes her through remote villages, onto a steam powered train and into the heart of the king's stronghold, picking up unlikely allies and a deeper understanding of her own abilities along the way.

Compared with the sprawling Septimus stories, this duology is tighter and more travel focused, balancing chases and near misses with conversations about responsibility, found family and who gets to decide who belongs where. It is well suited to readers who like eerie creatures, inventive magic systems and a heroine who questions the rules even when it puts her in danger.