Amari and the Great Game
Sequel to the New York Times bestseller Amari and the Night Brothers!
Artemis Fowl meets Men in Black in this magical second book in the New York Times and Indie bestselling Supernatural Investigations trilogy—perfect for fans of Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, the Percy Jackson series, and Nevermoor.
After finding her brother and saving the entire supernatural world, Amari Peters is convinced her first full summer as a Junior Agent will be a breeze.
But between the fearsome new Head Minister’s strict anti-magician agenda, fierce Junior Agent rivalries, and her brother Quinton’s curse steadily worsening, Amari’s plate is full. So when the secretive League of Magicians offers her a chance to stand up for magiciankind as its new leader, she declines. She’s got enough to worry about!
But her refusal allows someone else to step forward, a magician with dangerous plans for the League. This challenge sparks the start of the Great Game, a competition to decide who will become the Night Brothers’ successor and determine the future of magiciankind.
The Great Game is both mysterious and deadly, but among the winner’s magical rewards is Quinton’s last hope—so how can Amari refuse?
B. B. Alston
In a quiet corner of South Carolina, where winding country roads stretch toward the horizon and cicadas hum in the summer dusk, B. B. Alston began dreaming up worlds far bigger than his hometown. Long before his debut novel Amari and the Night Brothers catapulted him onto the global literary stage, he was crafting spooky short stories for his middle school classmates—sometimes just to spook them, other times to see if he could.
What sets Alston apart in the crowded landscape of middle-grade fantasy isn’t just his imagination—it’s the urgency in his storytelling. His protagonist, Amari Peters, isn’t just navigating magic; she’s pushing back against every closed door, every voice that says she doesn’t belong. There’s real-world fire beneath the spells and secret societies. His books don’t whisper escapism—they roar with it, yet they always return to themes of identity, injustice, and resilience. In a genre often content to follow formula, Alston reinvents the rules.
Supernatural Investigations
Beneath the polished surface of the everyday world lies something far stranger—a place where elevators open to other dimensions, time twists like fog, and magic isn’t just real, it’s heavily regulated. In the Supernatural Investigations series, the ordinary collides with the extraordinary through the eyes of a girl who was never meant to fit the mold.
Supernatural Investigations consists of four books and series is set to expand with the upcoming release of one more book. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
