The Sweet Far Thing

Gemma Doyle has spent a year at Spence Academy, and in that time she has found the Realms, a magical otherworld, and tied its magic to herself. Her London debut is close. Victorian society presses her to behave as a proper young lady, while the Realms keep calling her back.

Pippa, her friend, is lost there and in distress. Gemma's closest friends at Spence, Felicity and Ann, want to put her power to their own uses, and loyalties that once seemed settled start to give way.

Outside the school, two groups, the Order and the Rakshana, are fighting to control the magic. Kartik has chosen to step away from Gemma's world, which strains the bond between them.

Gemma follows clues toward a mysterious girl and the Winterlands. Her task is to decide what part she is meant to play in the Realms' fate. This is the third and last book of the Gemma Doyle trilogy, after A Great and Terrible Beauty and Rebel Angels, so it works as the close of a series.