Books in the A New Age of Magic series

A week ago, Amber was stressing about her thesis and mourning a recent break-up. Now, she's sleeping in the mud, running for her life, and struggling with conflicting grief over the death of a woman who hated her. She has reached rock bottom.And yet things only manage to get worse. Farida, hit hard with grief and guilt, has grown increasingly distant in the days since her grandmother's death, and an unexpected confrontation reveals she is using more than one magic stone and pushes her to her breaking point. Farida abandons Amber to pursue an unclear but undoubtedly dangerous mission. Amber must rely on an old friend and a recent enemy to find and stop Farida before the corrupting and deadly power of using multiple magic stones kills her.

Amber Martel just wants to get through her Master's degree. Or at least make an attempt at it. She's early into her first semester and is feeling the weight of self-doubt and heartbreak as she tries to organize her thesis and deal with living on her own for the first time. It's more than enough stress in her 23-year-old life.A research trip to a natural history museum throws her life into new chaos, however, when she touches a piece of quartz and unleashes an explosion that is destructive, powerful - and magical. Now Amber finds herself in the care of two women who claim to have connections to the origins of magic. They tell Amber that she is special, that magic outside their family is unprecedented, and that she needs to help them.Amber wants nothing more than to go home, but it soon becomes clear that might not be safe. Strangers attack them with magic they shouldn't possess, local police are pointing to them as terrorism suspects, and an enemy from the early days of magic has returned - even though he should be long dead.