The Smoke Thieves Series

The heart-pounding conclusion to the daring Smoke Thieves trilogy.

In this conclusion to the epic Smoke Thieves trilogy, the world has erupted into all-out war. King Aloysius is mining powerful demon smoke and using it to fuel an unstoppable army of children. March, now banished for treason, has joined up with this boy army. Forbidden from ever seeing Edyon again, and overwhelmed by his own betrayal, March no longer cares if he lives or dies.

Catherine–now queen of Pitoria–must find a way to defeat the boy army, while also grappling with her own troubles: her secret demon smoke addiction, and unresolved tension with her former lover, Ambrose. Catherine seeks military support from Calidor by reaching out to her illegitimate cousin Edyon, who has been proclaimed heir to the Calidorian throne. But Edyon has almost no power as he’s entangled in the unfamiliar machinations and manipulations of the royal court, finding that being the claimed son of a prince may be no easier than being a bastard.

With Catherine, his love, now married off and moving on, and his brother and sister tortured and executed before him, Ambrose doesn’t know what his role in this world is any more. He leads an expedition into the demon world, hoping to destroy the boy army’s stores of demon smoke. In this underground world, he runs into Tash, whom everyone had believed dead. She has survived in this new world using magical abilities that, prior to now, only demons had.

Aloysius will send his demon smoke-powered boy army to kill them all, if he can. But what nobody knows is that there is more to the smoke than meets the eye…

In the second book of the Smoke Thieves series, five strangers must band together to fight back the demon army prepared to invade the human world.

Everything is different in the demon world.

This is the land of red air and stone beneath our own, ruled by demons, where humans are never meant to go. But the barrier between worlds is breached when the viciously power-hungry King Aloysius discovers that he can use the demons’ smoke to fuel an army of children.

Who can stop him?

Perhaps Princess Catherine, who must use every political manipulation to secure her place in court.
Ambrose, the man who loves her, who has vowed revenge after Aloysius’s destruction of his family.
Tash, the demon hunter who sees no place for herself in the world of men.
Edyon, an illegitimate son of a prince—and an accused murderer.
And March, a servant hiding a dark secret.

Together, they may be able to put an end to Aloysius’s mad plan—but all the while, the demons have plans of their own. . . .

From the internationally bestselling author of the Half Bad trilogy comes an epic fantasy series where unforgiveable betrayals, devious motives, and forbidden love collide.

“A [young adult] Game of Thrones that pits power against love, conviction against convention.”—Booklist

“Full to overflowing with dark magic, marvelous mayhem, heart-stopping action, and delicious forbidden romance.”—Morgan Rhodes, New York Times bestselling author of Falling Kingdoms

Meet the Smoke Thieves.

A shrewd princess whose father is plotting against her.

An idealistic soldier turned traitor.

A radicalized servant on a quest to avenge his family.

A streetwise demon hunter in need of money.

A charming thief with no clue about his true identity.

These five young adults’ lives would never intersect were it not for a stolen bottle of demon smoke. As war approaches, they must navigate a tangled web of political intrigue, shifting alliances, and forbidden love in order to uncover the dangerous truth about the strangely powerful smoke that intertwines their fates.