Shadow Scale: A Companion to Seraphina (Seraphina Series Book 2)

by Rachel Hartman

The music stand had hit my table and knocked a cascade of books and parchments onto the floor; I had my uncle’s proclivity for filing by piling, alas.

“My premonitions of you, Seraphina, give me a very particular stomachache, like eating bad beets.” “I think of myself as more of a turnip,” I said, parrying insult with absurdity.