Magonia: A YA Fantasy About Love and Loyalty Colliding Between Parallel Worlds―Where a Girl Must Choose

“Maria Dahvana Headley is a firecracker: she’s whip smart with a heart, and she writes like a dream.”  —Neil Gaiman, bestselling author of The Graveyard Book and Coraline

#1 New York Times bestseller Maria Dahvana Headley’s soaring sky fantasy Magonia is now in paperback!

Aza Ray Boyle is drowning in thin air. Since she was a baby, Aza has suffered from a mysterious lung disease that makes it ever harder for her to breathe, to speak—to live.

So when Aza catches a glimpse of a ship in the sky, her family chalks it up to a cruel side effect of her medication. But Aza doesn't think this is a hallucination. She can hear someone on the ship calling her name.

Only her best friend, Jason, listens. Jason, who's always been there. Jason, for whom she might have more-than-friendly feelings. But before Aza can consider that thrilling idea, something goes terribly wrong. Aza is lost to our world—and found, by another. Magonia.

Above the clouds, in a land of trading ships, Aza is not the weak and dying thing she was. In Magonia, she can breathe for the first time. Better, she has immense power—but as she navigates her new life, she discovers that war between Magonia and Earth is coming. In Aza's hands lies fate of the whole of humanity—including the boy who loves her. Where do her loyalties lie?

Neil Gaiman’s Stardust meets John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars in this New York Times bestselling story about a girl caught between two worlds, two races, and two destinies.

Don’t miss Aerie, the stunning, highly anticipated sequel!

• Best Friends to Lovers: Jason has always been Aza’s anchor to the world. But when she’s pulled into the sky, he might be the only reason she’d ever want to come back.
• A World of Ships in the Sky: Aza always dreamed of flying, but she never imagined a portal fantasy that would take her to Magonia—a breathtaking and dangerous kingdom hidden in the clouds.
• A Girl with Secret Powers: On Earth, Aza is fragile and sick. In Magonia, she discovers her true identity and a power she never knew she possessed, one that could turn the tide of a war.
• High-Stakes Fantasy Romance: Caught between two worlds and two destinies, Aza must choose where her loyalties lie—with her family and the boy who loves her on Earth, or with the sky kingdom that is her birthright.

Maria Dahvana Headley is a New York Times bestselling novelist, memoirist, and editor, most recently of Magonia, Queen of Kings, and the anthology Unnatural Creatures (coeditor with Neil Gaiman). Her short fiction has been nominated for the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Awards. She lives in Brooklyn in an apartment with a seven-foot stuffed crocodile and constellations on the ceiling. You can find her at www.mariadahvanaheadley.com