Elizabeth Sagan has been writing stories filled with magic and epic battles for as long as she can remember, and can’t fall asleep without thinking of a scene. When she’s not reading or writing, she rescues pigeons.

GRAVESPELL, her debut novel coming spring 2027, will be translated and published in over a dozen countries around the world.

You can find her on Instagram as @elizabeth_sagan and TikTok as @elizabeth_sagan or at www.trevinoandsagan.com

James Trevino is fascinated by magical societies full of dark secrets, morally gray characters, and impossible choices. He writes about people who stumble, fight, and sometimes fail, but always try to do better in worlds that are anything but simple. When he’s not writing, James can be found listening to creepypastas, binge-watching fantasy and sci-fi shows, or digging into history, all under the watchful eye of his cat familiar, Wanda.

GRAVESPELL, his debut novel releasing in spring 2027, will be published in more than a dozen countries.

You can find him on Instagram as @james_trevino and TikTok as @james.trevino or at trevinoandsagan.com

Alice Howe is an outcast at the elite Deepgrove Academy for Magic, which suits her just fine. But an unwelcome premonition means she’ll have to step out of the shadows. Because now she’s the only one at Deepgrove who knows two terrible things. In seven days her schoolmate Xena Wycomb, daughter of the American President of Magic, will be dead. And, if left unsolved, Xena’s murder will ignite a war.

Despite Alice’s warning, Xena meets her foreseen demise. But before she does, she points a finger at the prime suspects in her own murder, each of whom has a deadly secret to keep.

Christopher: The ex-boyfriend she cheated on and the heir to the biggest magical corporation in the world.

Delvy: The traitorous best friend who is embroiled in a scandal of her own.

Ben: Xena’s new boyfriend, a mage born without magic and the perfect scapegoat.

And of course, Alice herself.

Soon, the four of them are at the center of a huge media scandal, amid a very public murder investigation, which brings the modern wizarding world to the brink of war between those born with magic and those born without. And it all leads back to Xena.

Alice knows she can’t trust devilishly charming Christopher, picture-perfect Delvy, or morose Ben, but they all hold a piece of the puzzle. As suspicion falls on each of them in turn, Alice must find a way to uncover who killed Xena before the whole of magekind meets the same fate.

Publication

US: Sourcebooks (Sourcebooks Fire)

UK: Simon & Schuster (Gallery YA)