Sharp Claws, sticky paws. Elise and her siblings are perfectly normal denizens of New Oxford's undercity.They live in squalor, sleeping in the dump and stealing what food they can to get by. It's been hard for them since their parents died, but Elise does her best to hold them together despite her faulty memory and their difference in species. What's that? They stole your watch? It couldn't be, those little fur balls are angels! It's your hat now? Well, Chip does have a soft spot for those. C...

"I'm starting to think you're the scariest monster in here." - And that's just what her friends say about her. When Emily Coldstone discovers the lightning gem in the smouldering ruins of a crashed airship, her own fate, along with that of those she loves and those she hates, is sealed. Experimenting with the gem’s powers, Emily is awakened as a Mage and finds herself inducted into a secret world of magic by a mysterious entity, who sets her a task that will take her from the slums of her b...