Alice, Poppy, and Zach have been friends since elementary school.  They get together every day after school to play a great game of imagination with characters they have developed over the years with each of the friends playing an imaginary character. One of the characters, an antique doll Poppy’s mother keeps locked in a glass cabinet, they call the Great Queen has always had an air of mystery surrounding it.  When Zach’s father returns to the family, he wants Zach to get more into sports, so he pressures Zach to give up the time he spends with his best friends to pursue basketball. Just as Zach’s dad takes a desperate action to end the game leaving Zach feeling he has no choice but to abandon his friends, Poppy approaches Zach with a story of a haunted china doll. Poppy needs Zach and Alice to accompany her on a quest to return the Great Queen to her final resting spot.  Has Poppy made a gruesome discovery or is this just another part of the game?

Maggie Stiefvater’s Blue Lily, Lily Blue is Book III in The Raven Cycle.  Blue Sargent’s mother, Maura, is missing.  Maura’s psychic sisters, Persephone and Calla, cannot locate her. Blue, Adam Parrish, Ronan Lynch and Richard Campbell Gansey III are still on a quest to find the cave that holds Glendower and perhaps the missing Maura. Others are trying to find Glendower as well. Persephone is coaching Adam to use his new found abilities and gives him this particular message: “Three in particular,” she murmured. “To be woken. Oh, no. No. Two. One should not be woken.”  It will be up to the Raven Boys and Blue to find the cave and figure out Persephone’s message.