
But there's a surprise rival in the form of Ottoline, aka Lotte, the illegitimate daughter of Nora's aunt, who left her with nuns as a baby. But when her mother is found murdered in an alley, the family throne and fortune are up for grabs, which means Nora will be pitted against her cousins in the deadly Veritaz trials to determine the rightful inheritor. 'At sixteen, Honora 'Nora' Holtzfall is the daughter of the most powerful heiress in Gammamix her family controls all the money - and all the magic - in the entire country. The first book of this upcoming trilogy is titled ' The Notorious Virtues'. It is about a society which depends on magic to stay safe from unknown dangers of the forest. The new trilogy is said to be based in the same world as 'Rebel of the Sands' trilogy, but the story is set in the 1920s and revolves around a different generation living on a different continent. Now, the author 'has sold a new trilogy to Faber Children’s in the UK and Viking at Penguin Random House in the US', reads a report by The Bookseller.

Young Adult author Alwyn Hamilton is best known for her 2015 ' Rebel of the Sands' series.
