If Hogwarts was more like Woodstock, and Voldemort was your childhood sweetheart turned abusive boyfriend... As long as Nora Sparrow can remember, Owen has protected her. He’s been there through years of miserable foster homes and snobby mean girls, always whispering to her that she doesn’t belong here. Telling her that this is the mundane world, and someday, he’ll get them back to Helicon, the world of the muses. The world where they belong. But Nora’s fifteen years old, and she isn’t sure she quite believes it anymore. When he begs her to try another ritual to open the dimensions, she agrees mostly to humor him. Owen’s rituals never work. But this one does, and Nora is flung into the whimsical, bohemian land of Helicon, where she’s expected to do nothing more than create and inspire. With the help of her new muse friends, Nora sets out to discover who is creating holes in the fabric of Helicon and draining away the muses’ energy. Everything would be perfect, if only Owen’s protectiveness wasn’t starting to seem so...obsessive.

If Hogwarts were more like Woodstock, and Voldemort was your childhood sweetheart turned abusive boyfriend... Nora Sparrow wants to feel safe now that her crazed ex-boyfriend Owen has been exiled from Helicon, the land of the muses. She wants nothing more than to sculpt, dance, and play, the way a muse should. But her fear of Owen casts a shadow over everything. She can't even commit to a relationship, because she fears being smothered and controlled. Everyone else thinks the threatening message in the snow was a joke. They think Nora's anxious mind conjured up the bouquet of dead flowers in her tent. But Nora knows that Owen is still after her. Nothing will stand in the way of his obsessive desire to possess her. Not even exile.

If Hogwarts was more like Woodstock, and Voldemort was your childhood sweetheart turned abusive boyfriend... Nora Sparrow couldn't be more at home in Helicon, the whimsical land of the muses, where she belongs. She is in love with Sawyer Snow, and she's never been happier. But Maddie Salt, their best friend, is hurt and angry about the newly formed relationship between Sawyer and Nora. She can't help but feel left out, and she wants nothing more to do with them. Agler Thorn finds himself jealous of Nora's new romance. When he's given authority over the tweens in Helicon, he makes it his business to try to keep Sawyer and Nora apart. A bewildering sickness is creeping over the land, striking down muses, leaving them weak and unable to create. It seems obvious that it's the work of Owen, but the muses can't find him. He's out of reach, and they can't fight him. Through all of this, Nora clings to Sawyer, the only perfect, stable thing in her life. She loves him, and she wants to make love to him. But after she and Sawyer are intimate with each other, everything changes...

If Hogwarts were more like Woodstock, and Voldemort was your childhood sweetheart turned abusive ex-boyfriend... A new year in Helicon, and Nora Sparrow is determined that this one will be a drama-free. She’s intent on doing nothing but having fun, creating, and enjoying herself. Unfortunately, drama strikes right away with an explosion at the Winter Ball. The assumed perpetrator is a muse named Lute Thundercloud, although he claims he didn’t do it. Sawyer Snow believes Lute. In fact, Sawyer can’t stop thinking about Lute. He loves Nora, and he doesn’t want to hurt her, but he is torn—shaken by this new attraction. And before he can even quite come to grips with his feelings, he realizes that all the girls in Helicon have suddenly fallen madly in love with a skinny fourteen-year-old named Colin Oak—who also happens to be the same guy who accused Lute of causing the explosion. It’s becoming obvious that something’s not quite right in Helicon…

An entrancing other realm. An obsessive love. A world in peril. Owen Asher is back in Helicon, and Sawyer Snow doesn’t like it. Sawyer doesn’t believe Nora Sparrow when she says that Owen deserves another chance. Owen’s not a good person. He’s manipulative and cruel, and there’s no way he can be rehabilitated. When Sawyer sees Nora kissing Owen, he’s convinced beyond the shadow of a doubt that Owen has done something horrible to Nora to make her behave this way. Sawyer doesn’t know what’s happened, but he knows it can’t be good. With help of his friends, Sawyer will do whatever it takes to save Nora—to save all of Helicon—from whatever scheme Owen has planned.

Numb. That’s what Nora Sparrow is. In the wake of the destruction that Owen Asher wreaked on Helicon, her home, and after everything she did to attempt to rein him in, she is defeated and lost. A series of blows weights her further down as Coeus Dust dies, Phoebe Rain steps down from the council in her grief, and Maddie Salt succumbs again to her anorexic tendencies. As long-running relationships around her crumble, Nora struggles to know how to respond to the advances of half-fairy Roth River. It’s not until May Day, when Owen bursts back into Helicon, full of the power of the Influence, that the gang is shocked back into action. It will take everything they have within them to stop him. And, of course, it would be easier to focus on all that if they weren’t also dealing with cheating, heartbreak, and threesomes. The Helicon series is a soapy, irreverent portal fantasy wherein the drama of teen relationships tends to overshadow whatever magical threat they’re trying to fight. Lots of drinking, swearing, inappropriate sexual decisions, grappling with sexual orientation and gender, and random appearances by mythological figures thrown in for good measure. It’s genre-bending, impossible to categorize, and for everyone out there who equally loves Gossip Girl, Rocky Horror, and Narnia.