Katharine J. Adams
Katharine J. Adams
Katharine J. Adams is a Sir Julius Vogel Award finalist, a New Zealand Book Award finalist, and the Aotearoa-bestselling author of The Witches of Halstett trilogy—Tonight, I Burn; Tonight, I Bleed; and Tonight, I Blaze from Orbit US, Orbit UK, Hachette Australia, and Moa Press NZ, with translated editions from Bragelonne France, Hidra Spain, AST Russia, and Armchair Israel.
She spends her days writing, playing taxi to her children, and making space for just one more book on her overflowing shelves. She’s passionate about positive LGBTQ+ representation in literature and genuinely thought everyone secretly liked all genders for an embarrassingly long time. If she’s not out mountain biking with her family along the glorious Kapiti Coast in Aotearoa, she’s often found hiding in the garden where she accidentally kills more plants than she does characters in her stories.
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Tonight, I Blaze
Orbit Books/Hachette ANZ
Three lives. One fate.
Penny Albright lit the match that sparked a war. Now, she holds the one that will end it.
In defeating the Warden, she and her friends released a deadlier foe—and the Sorcerer will stop at nothing to reclaim magic and destroy witchkind. But Penny will do anything to protect the people she loves, even if it means joining forces with Malin’s morally questionable brother, Dante.
With Alice held captive in the Sorcerer’s city, forced to spin the evil aimed at Halstett’s heart, and Malin inside Halstett, rebuilding the army to protect their walls, Penny’s only hope is to play the Sorcerer’s games—and she needs Dante to win. As the veil unravels, Penny, Malin, and Alice each fight their own demons to face the end together, side-by-side.
In this searing series conclusion, Penny must claim her fate as the witch she was always destined to be—and the only way to defeat a god might be to become one.
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Tonight, I Bleed
Orbit Books/Hachette ANZ
As the ashes settle over the Resistance’s defeat, Halstett faces Samhain night and the Warden’s nefarious plans for the ball. At midnight, when the veil between Life and Death is at its thinnest, the Warden will destroy magic and the witches who wield it. With her family missing, her friends lost in the temple inferno, and the knife they forged to destroy him in the Warden’s hands, Penny turns to the Sorcerer chained on the mysterious ninth floor of the library.
He offers a deal: a legion to fight the Warden in exchange for her blood.
All it would take is a single drop into the eternal fires to banish the Warden — and set the Sorcerer free. But with the Warden using Penny’s circle of Resistance witch friends as a shield, Penny is forced to choose between the friends she loves and the covens of witches she belongs to.
A single night could spark a war that will tear the world—and Penny’s heart—apart.
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Tonight, I Burn
Orbit Books/Hachette ANZ
Penny Albright—witch, Death Walker, and member of Thorn Coven of the Kingdom of Halstett—will risk her soul to save her sister's life. She will fall in love with a man who deals in lies and a woman who weaves the truth. She will ignite a magical rebellion that will change the world.
Forced to patrol the veil between the realms of Life and Death, one thorn witch—and only one—must cross the veil each night by burning at the stake. Each morning, that witch draws on their magic to return. Failure to follow the rules risks the veil and risks them all.
But one morning, Penny's favorite sister Ella doesn't return. And that night, determined to find her, Penny breaks the rules. She burns in secret. And that is where her story truly begins. Because it's not just her sister's life that hangs in the balance. It's the fate of all magic.
All it takes is one witch—and one spark—to set the world ablaze.
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