Nanabush. A name that has a certain weight on the tongue-a taste. Like lit sage in a windowless room or aluminum foil on a metal filling. Trickster. Storyteller. Shape-shifter. An ancient troublemaker with the power to do great things, only he doesn't want to put in the work. Since coming home to Spirit Bear Point First Nation, Hazel Ellis has been dreaming of an old crow. He tells her he's here to help her, save her. From what, exactly? Sure, her...

Once, all power in the Vin Lands was held by the prince-mages, who alone could craft spellwines and who selfishly used them to increase their own wealth and influence. But their abuse of power caused a demigod to break the Vine, shattering the power of the mages. Now, fourteen centuries later, it is the humble Vinearts who hold the secret of crafting spells from wines, the source of magic, and they are prohibited from holding power.But now rumors...

Acclaimed author Jim Butcher is famous for his wildly popular Dresden Files books. In Cold Days, Chicago's only professional wizard, Harry Dresden, is brought back to life to serve as Winter Knight - answerable to Mab, the Queen of Air and Darkness. And his latest assignment seems impossible: to kill an immortal. Harry must escape his eternal subservience before countless innocents lose their lives - and before Harry loses his very soul.