Amari and the Despicable Wonders
The highly anticipated third book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Supernatural Investigations series that began with Amari and the Night Brothers!
Perfect for fans of Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, and Nevermoor.
War has come to the supernatural world, and Amari’s two worst enemies are leading the charge.
Elaine Harlowe has manipulated her way into becoming prime minister, using her mind control ability to force the Bureau to take up her vicious grudge against magiciankind. Meanwhile, Dylan Van Helsing, the newly crowned leader of the League of Magicians—and Amari’s former partner—is after a destructive new power that would not only ensure the magicians’ victory . . . it would make him invincible.
With neither the Bureau nor the League safe for Amari, and her newly returned brother, Quinton, determined to keep her out of the fray, she and her friends decide to find a way to end the war on their own.
So when they learn that the only way to stop Dylan is to find powerful magical inventions known as Wonders, they go after them. But wielding these items comes at a terrible cost, and Amari will have to decide just how much she’s willing to sacrifice . . . because the Despicable Wonders will demand everything.
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.
