Wren Starling and the Enchanted Kingdoms begins as teen witch Wren Starling and her siblings Robin, Martin, and Jay prepare for the new year at their boarding schools. After a sports injury triggers hereditary abilities, Wren becomes the Four Kingdoms’ next and only Seer. Her journey of self-discovery leads her to a lost 1500-year-old codex thought to be written by the realm’s most powerful wizard, Athdar Ravenwyck.
When mortal objects are found in the enchanted kingdoms, concerns are raised about the strength of the centuries-old protection ward. Wren discovers a book within Athdar’s codex that no one else can see. Aided by the realm’s faery princess, a wonky old map, and the school’s history clock, Wren is determined to help find the answers among the grandmaster wizard’s mysterious drawings, equations, and coded notes—before the ward fails.
Dark times spark inspiration. Wren unlocks secrets she’s held all along and a dragon flies across the kingdoms again, in Wren Starling and the Tattooed Dragon.
After the holiday break, Wren and the Starlings face new challenges when they return to school during lockdown. Following the principles set forth by Cauldrons’ headmistress, Wisteria Belladonna, “Cauldy’s don’t try—we do,” Wren alerts the Privy Council to differences between spells thought to be authentic with those in Athdar’s codex.
When the Faery Queen grants Wren access to Ravenwyck’s research library in the scramble to find lost information, Wren must juggle Crimson’s growing jealousy while keeping up class assignments and fulfilling her duty as a Seer. Wren’s persistent sleuthing reveals now-extinct dragons and charmed elements played a prominent role in creating the ward.
What do the Office of Assimilation, and a fish and chips shop have to do with orphaned elves, kidnappers, and underhanded deals in the rough back alleys of the Bonneyvale docks?
Centuries ago, the enchanted and mortals coexisted until the mortals became greedy and eventually tried to conquer and enslave the enchanted people for their magical powers. War was declared. Afterward, an everlasting protective ward was conjured to seal out the mortals forever. Today, aided by forgetting enchantments in the water, the mortal citizens of Pennington Bridge remain unaware of what lies beyond the veil of the Thyme. Dark witches known as Graken, stripped of their powers, secretly live among them, overseen by enchanted kingdom assimilation agents.
Wren’s quest for truth leads her into a fungi-passage between dimensions called the blur and down dark tunnels linking the enchanted kingdoms to the mortal village of Pennington Bridge where she uncovers a plot is brewing to overthrow the Four Kingdoms, in Wren Starling and the Crown of Power.