Sarah Beth Durst Books in Order

Nursing a broken heart, Calisa takes a summer job at her great-aunt’s crumbling Vermont bed-and-breakfast and quickly realizes the guests and the building are not entirely ordinary. As Auntie Zee vanishes, Calisa and the groundskeeper’s son uncover the inn’s magical secret and what it demands from them.

Marin flees heartbreak by captaining a tiny supply boat with a sea serpent and a walking shrub for crew. After rescuing composer Dax from a city in revolt, she bargains for a pretend romance at her home festival and sails into storms, rebellions, and unexpected feelings.

Elisa has grown up on the move, haunted by a family curse that transforms any woman who stays too long in one place into a rooted tree. When she settles in a seemingly ordinary town, strange magic, buried histories, and impossible choices test how far she’ll go to claim a home.

Terlu Perna once broke the law by creating a sentient houseplant and was punished by being turned into wood. When she wakes on a remote island of magical greenhouses beside a gruff gardener, she must revive failing enchantments and decide whether she dares to practice magic again.

Shy librarian Kiela and her sentient spider plant, Caz, escape a burning imperial library with an armful of stolen spellbooks. Hiding on her storm-battered childhood island, she secretly opens a spellshop disguised as a jam business, risking execution to help her neglected neighbors.

After her mother’s death, Hannah discovers almost no one can see or hear her, as if she doesn’t quite exist. Watching her sister repeat their mother’s self-destructive lies, Hannah navigates eerie visions and fragile family memories to confront what unchecked falsehoods can do to a life.

Best friends Rachel and Joon spend their Long Island summer practicing spycraft when they uncover an old ring tied to Revolutionary War legend Anna Smith Strong. A hidden inscription launches them on a clue-filled treasure hunt through real history and their changing friendship.

Sent to an elite lake retreat to build her confidence, anxious Claire arrives to find the lodge burned down, no adults in sight, and a dead body in the woods. Stranded with two other girls, she must outwit whoever is hunting them around the isolated island.

Holly the squirrel dreams of being a grand wizard’s familiar, but her only magic makes pastries appear. Living at a refuge for rejected familiars, she joins misfit friends on a quest to fix their so-called broken magic and learns why difference can be a strength.

Twenty-five years after defeating a bone magician and losing her husband, retired hero Kreya breaks taboo by using forbidden bone magic to bring him back. Reuniting her scattered comrades, she uncovers signs their old enemy’s war never really ended.

Sisters nicknamed Even and Odd share one pool of magic, trading powers every other day. When the border to their birth world collapses, leaving them stranded with a cupcake-pooping unicorn, they must confront a power-hungry wizard and decide what kind of heroes they want to be.

In the desert nation of Becar, the worst souls reincarnate as monstrous kehoks unless they win a brutal race. Disgraced trainer Tamra and runaway student Raia stake everything on one terrifying creature, uncovering political corruption and fate-twisting secrets along the track.

Zoe promises to care for a scrawny kitten named Pipsqueak, then watches in horror and delight as Pip grows into a house-sized, talking cat. Hiding her enormous pet with help from friends, Zoe searches for the source of the magic before the world discovers Pip.

On the oceanic islands of Belene, deadly sea spirits constantly batter the shores. When diver Mayara exposes her forbidden ability to control them, she’s forced into a brutal trial on a spirit-haunted island, where surviving may mean becoming heir to the sea queen.

In a kingdom where storm beasts and their human guardians control the weather, quiet Mina is shocked to bond with a chaotic lightning beast. At lightning school she discovers the hidden cost of their perfect climate and must find the courage to speak up.

Mayka is a girl carved from stone whose family of animated statues is slowly eroding now that their human maker is gone. Leaving her mountain for the first time, she searches for a stonemason who can recarve their stories and uncovers a sinister new kind of magic.

With Daleina and Naelin sharing the throne of Aratay, peace finally seems within reach until Naelin’s children are abducted by spirits and war looms with a ruthless neighboring queen. Both women must weigh personal loss against the survival of Renthia itself.

In Sky Hawkins’s wyvern family, pulling off your first jewel heist is a rite of passage. Determined to clear her disgraced mother’s name, Sky assembles a crew for a break-in that reveals hidden dragon politics, dangerous magic, and the truth behind her family’s fall.

Now queen, Daleina is secretly dying, and every blackout lets the spirits slip free to kill. Her only hope is Naelin, a powerful woods-mother who wants nothing to do with crowns. Dragged into politics, Naelin must choose between her family’s safety and an entire country.

Little dragon Roar is terrified of starting school, convinced he’ll be asked to molt his scales or fly over a volcano. With big sister Sparkles at his side, he discovers classrooms, games, and new friends might be far less scary than he imagined.

Princess twins Seika and Ji-Lin expect the Emperor’s Journey to their kingdom’s guardian dragon to be a ceremonial trip. Instead they face monsters, earthquakes, and crumbling magic, relying on each other and their flying lion to find a new way to protect the islands.

In the forest kingdom of Aratay, vicious nature spirits constantly try to slaughter humans, held back only by the queen’s magic. Quiet academy student Daleina and disgraced champion Ven uncover a terrifying rot in that system and risk everything to protect their people.

Sophie’s parents sell bottled dreams in the hidden shop beneath their bookstore, but she has never dreamed herself, except once, when she accidentally brought home a tentacled monster who became her best friend. When someone steals their stock and her parents vanish, Sophie must solve the mystery.

Fleeing the news of her mother’s cancer, Lauren Chase drives into a strange dust storm and emerges in Lost, a town where every stray object and broken person ends up. Trapped until she understands why she’s there, Lauren must help others find their way home.

Kayla uses her telekinesis to shoplift just enough cash so she and her mother can run if her violent father finds them. When teleporting boy Daniel blackmails her into helping rescue his kidnapped mother, their globe-trotting heist uncovers dangerous magic and family secrets.

Eve wakes with a new face, a fake identity, and no memories, told only that she’s hiding from a magical serial killer. Haunted by carnival-dream visions and dangerous powers, she must uncover who she is before her keepers use her up.

Liyana has trained all her life to sacrifice her body so a goddess can inhabit it and save her desert clan. When the goddess never comes and her people abandon her, Liyana joins a trickster god on a journey to find the missing deities themselves.

Pearl is a happily ruthless teenage vampire until a unicorn stabs her and she can suddenly walk in sunlight. Her family sends her to high school to hunt fresh victims for the Vampire King’s feast, but making real friends makes betrayal a lot harder.

Sixteen-year-old Lily visits Princeton hoping for a normal college tour and instead finds gargoyles that talk back and a secret gate into a magical version of campus. Chosen to pass a deadly admission test, she must decide which world she truly belongs to.

Raised at an Arctic research station, Cassie dismisses her grandmother’s tale of a polar bear king who stole her mother. On her eighteenth birthday she meets the impossible bear, strikes a desperate bargain, and is drawn into a perilous, wintry fairy-tale romance.

After Julie thought she’d contained the Wild, it spits out her long-lost father, Rapunzel’s storybook prince, into suburban Massachusetts. When a scheming fairy godmother and Sleeping Beauty start rewriting reality again, Julie and her dad hit the road to set things right.

Julie Marchen’s family is full of retired fairy-tale characters, from her witch grandmother to her mother Rapunzel. When the magical Wild under Julie’s bed breaks loose, it tries to drag everyone back into scripted stories, and only Julie can fight it.