Sometimes the darkness is safer than the light...

A Key.
Mina is being followed. She's felt eyes tracking her for days. On her college campus, at the haunted house where she works for extra cash...Whoever it is, she can feel their intent vacillating between two different kinds of need--hunger and desperation. She's always had uncanny intuitions about people. Intuitions her English professor father always warns her to keep to herself. It's his one rule. Act normal at all costs. Tell no one. But it seems to Mina that someone already knows. And it might be too late to run.

An immortal.
Enoch has searched the human realm for more than two thousand years for the Keys to unlock the Barrier. Seven Keys. Seven bloodlines of the original humans who cast the spell that rent the world in two. He needs one more. Now, finally, he has found her. A college student. Untrained. Unaware of who she really is. His desperation for what she can help him accomplish grows by the day, but he has to be careful. Enoch is not the only one after her. And he's not the only one watching...waiting.

A broken heart.
Alejandro had the world at his feet until he was twelve. One night, two deaths, and everything changed. Now, his ambitious mother drags him secretly across an ocean to meet a girl he's never even heard of. Mamá says the power Mina contains as a Key could be enough...enough to bring back the one person who means anything to Alejo. But using Mina's power for this kind of magic may mean taking her life. After meeting her, Alejo isn't sure it's a fair trade anymore.

And a ghost.
Elyse has been friends with Mina Voorsanger since who knows when. She's always thought her friend was a little weird, but Mina's ability to decipher Elyse's intentions when no one else can means Elyse is ride or die for that bitch. Ride or die. She always thought that was just an expression. Of course, the world would go ahead and prove her wrong.

Twins, Aedrik and Aedrian, and their younger sister, Ashdan, are the youngest to rule the criminal world of Western Jesimae in living memory. Aedrik's defeat of the previous Rogue at only twenty-two has become legend in that part of country even just a few years later. King Besian's alliance with their enemy ruling over the East has forced them to hatch a treasonous plot: to kidnap the Crown Prince and ransom him for information. The annual Royal Progress has provided the perfect opportunity. In a devastatingly unexpected betrayal, their plans are suddenly thrown to the winds and they are forced to improvise. Who could make their closest friend turn against them?

Ashdan's memory is gone. She can't remember her family, friends, or loved ones. All she knows is she does the King's bidding. Fights who he says to fight. Kills who he says to kill. Obey at all costs or the one friend she does remember will be executed. One night, as she's carrying out another of the King's orders, she realizes she's being watched. She attacks the stalker and pins him to the ground, intending to do away with the potential enemy, only - she knows that face.

Crown Prince Emyr has been locked away in his palace rooms since being "rescued" by his father's men several months ago. The friends he made are either dead or on the run. A family scandal surrounding his birth is threatening to reveal itself and burst from his skin. The woman he lov- well, she was executed by his father for her part in his kidnapping. Few things are going right in the Prince's world until one night when wandering the palace gardens, he watches the cleanest, swiftest, most silent murder he's ever seen. Her elegant dress isn't even wrinkled as she lays the corpse on the ground and suddenly he knows. She might be wearing a different face thanks to her shapeshifting powers, but he knows it's Ashdan. She's still alive.

A star-crossed romance, a mad king, a found family, and a political coup. Memory and Mutiny is the epic next installment to the Jesimae series by S.E. Zell.