Why does he want art gone?
The Collector could rule Havenwood with its magic. Instead he wants to burn it out of the world entirely. What did art do to him — or take from him — to earn a hatred that total?
The Magic of Havenwood · A complete three-book epic fantasy
Here, art comes to life —
and someone wants it dead.
In Havenwood, painters bring what they imagine to life. When her mother is murdered, Bella learns fast — painting weapons and living creatures off the canvas to fight back.
But a man called the Collector wants magic itself erased forever — and no one knows why. To avenge her mother and stop him, Bella has to find out.
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Epic fantasy · PG-13 · A complete trilogy
It begins, the way the best stories do, with a loss you feel in your chest.
A murdered mother. A daughter who can paint her enemies out of the world — and living things into it.
Bella never wanted a war. Then her mother was murdered, and Bella found out what her hands could do: pull a blade off the canvas, paint a living creature into being, turn grief and paint into something that fights back. In Havenwood, where art is the only real magic, a girl learning that is the most dangerous thing in the kingdom.
Now she wants two things — to find who took her mother, and to stop the man erasing magic from the world before it's gone for good. His name is the Collector. And no one knows why he wants it all to end.
Here, what you feel most deeply is exactly what your magic becomes.
A magic system unlike any you've read — five crafts, five kinds of power
In Havenwood, the artists rule the world.
Every art form grants a different magic. Master your craft, and you master a power the rest of the world can only dream of. These are the five — and the reason Havenwood has flourished for generations.
Painters
Shape reality with a brushstroke. What they paint can step off the canvas and into the world.
Writers
Speak a thing into being. The right words, written well enough, simply become true.
Musicians
Move a heart, still a riot, march an army. A song in Havenwood is never just a song.
Sculptors
Give stone a life of its own. What they carve can stand up and walk.
Actors
Become anyone. Wear a face so completely the world forgets who you were.
Every rule here is real and consistent — which is exactly what makes the wonder feel earned, and the danger feel possible.
The most frightening villain isn't the one who wants power
The Collector doesn't want to rule Havenwood.
He wants to erase every color in it.
He has raised an army with one goal: hunt down the artists and destroy artistic magic — all of it, forever. And like every truly dangerous man, he is certain he's the hero of the story. His reasons run deeper than power. When you finally learn them, the worst part is that you'll understand.
Picture it: a man moving through the most beautiful kingdom ever imagined, and feeling nothing but the need to switch off the lights. To make the paintings stop moving. To make the songs go quiet. To hand the world back its silence.
Against him stands Bella — a grieving girl only beginning to grasp what she can do — an ensemble of artists who have never had to fight for anything, and the fragile, stubborn human need to make things. It may not be enough.
On the Collector
"In a world made of art, the deadliest thing imaginable is a man who wants a world with none."
Four questions you will not be able to put down
The itch.
The best fantasy leaves doors open in your mind and won't let you close them. Here are the ones this trilogy opens early — and the reason "just one more chapter" turns into the whole night.
What is the Lost Gemini?
A secret out of Havenwood's past resurfaces — one that holds the truth about the Collector and the real nature of artistic magic. Some doors, once opened, change what you thought the whole story was.
How far will she go to avenge her mother?
In a world where what you feel becomes what you can do, grief is power — and revenge is a slope. Bella started with nothing but a paintbrush and a reason. Somewhere ahead is the line between fighting back and becoming something she can't paint her way home from.
Can art survive?
Not just the artists — art itself. The fragile human need to make things. If the Collector wins, what exactly is left of a world that can no longer imagine? You'll need to know. That's the whole trick.
At least one of these is already itching. That feeling doesn't go away until you've read the book.
A world unlike any fantasy you've read.
If any of this sounds like your taste, the Magic of Havenwood was made for it:
- If Cornelia Funke's Inkheart made you fall in love with the idea of art and story becoming real — this is that idea, built into an entire world.
- If Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus pulled you in with pure, luminous wonder and imagination — you'll feel that same enchantment here.
- If Laini Taylor showed you how beautiful and dreamlike fantasy can be while still breaking your heart a little — welcome home.
◈Art as magic, done rightEach craft has real, coherent rules.
◈Immersive worldbuildingA kingdom you'll believe exists.
◈Real emotional depthIt begins in grief and ends in redemption.
◈Beautiful for all agesPG-13 — wondrous without adult content.
Reading order · a complete trilogy
The complete series.
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IThe Magic Collector -
IIThe Lost Gemini -
IIIThe Magic Redeemer
Open the canvas.
Start with The Magic Collector — free to read in Kindle Unlimited. Give it one chapter. If the world of Havenwood has bloomed to life in your head by then, you already know how your night is going.
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“Fascinating characters, lots of action, loads of surprises. This is a book you can get lost in.”— Janice Clark, Amazon
“This series is truly Magical! You will love the characters and an action packed storyline is an understatement!”— Kim Scudieri, Amazon
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