In the second book of the Wild Magic trilogy, courageous young Mup and
her family are trying to heal and restore the kingdom when they uncover
an ancient and powerful anger.
The old queen and her raggedy witches have fled Witches Borough, and
Mup's family has moved into the cold, newly empty castle. But the
queen's legacy lingers in the fear and mistrust of her former subjects
and in the memories that live in the castle's very walls. While Mup's
mam tries to restore balance to a formerly oppressed world, Mup herself
tries to settle into her strange new home with her dad, Tipper, and
Crow. When an enchanted snow blankets the castle, Mup's family is cut
off from the rest of the kingdom, and the painful memories of the old
queen's victims begin to take form, thanks to a ghost whose power may be
too much for even Mup and Mam to handle. Celine Kiernan weaves a timely
and essential truth into the second book of her trilogy: that
dismantling oppression means honoring the pains of the past, and perhaps
the most potent magic of all is encouraging joy and hope wherever
possible.