Blood Quintet
3 primary works 5 total works planned
Book 1
The ringed world of the Triskai is only one timely incantation away from the dark underworld where the damned demons and elementals lust to reduce the world to blood and bones. But despite the sorcery beyond the thin veil, the residents of the Triskai remain clueless about the plot to displace them.
SAM is a student of Candentis Academy who has lost yet another family member under mysterious circumstances. He discovers that the death of his family members isn’t a coincidence, and something vile and ancient is hunting him and his four friends.
TONY is a science whiz at Candentis Academy. But he cannot seem to understand the connection his supposed friend is having with his girlfriend, Parris. Matters come to a magical boil on the night of the Hookery—an annual party held for the year’s graduating class— setting into motion a fate that is bound for tragedy and heartbreak.
Parris is in turmoil, she shares a deep but spooky connection with someone who isn’t her boyfriend. After serving detention with Sam on the forbidden second floor of the Candentis Academy building, she realizes the school is far more than what meets the eye.
Antonio couldn’t care less about academics, his only concerns are his family’s livelihood and listening to the enthralling myth of the Triskai his parents loved to tell. When he and his friends converge at Sam’s house one innocent day, a spectacular event transpires that leaves even Tony the logician baffled to explain it. Antonio, however, sees it for what it is…the five of them are connected in some supernatural way, and the myths may not be myths after all.
Gem has always been a quiet, discerning girl. After the bizarre event at Sam’s house, she is the first to feel the stirrings in her blood. Like all things before it, she kept it to herself…along with the ill-fated magic her spiritual eye sees happening between Sam and Parris.
Sybel is the last Seer left in the Triskai, and what a terrible time to be alive! She's pregnant with a prophecy she's loath to bear—the apocalyptic merging of the underworld with the Triskai. Sybel dreams of a dark world of blood and ash: souls ripped from flesh wandering in a world without salvation. In the throes of her divining, she glimpses five redemptive children in the fringes of her consciousness. She prays they are real and not a figment of her shattered mind as they stand hand in hand while the city burns in spells and ashes.
In Book One of the Blood Quintet Series, Asher crafts the foundation for an epic battle between good and evil. This inventive work promises to be unlike anything you've read before. Perfect for fans of Jennifer L. Armentrout and Nora Roberts.
Book 2
Asher returns with a cleverly crafted sequel to the Bonds of Chrome Magic: A spellbinding tale with a storyline of magic, love, and betrayal perfect for fans of V.E. Schwab and Laini Taylor.
Following a harrowing final year at Candentis Academy, Sam and his friends are invited to NOX REGIA to hone their unique magical abilities. Being members of the BLOOD QUINTET with the power to stop the Veil Rapture event from reducing the Triskai to a dark world of demons, the five children are hunted by a rising, shapeshifting god who viciously pits them against themselves. Can they survive the plot of a god as the deaths amass, inching closer and closer each time?
NOX REGIA: A southbound realm and biosphere with strange animals, and skies teeming with flamboyant electric light. The realm contains the Nox Regia building—a fantastical magical school of Sorcery and Witchcraft where young wizards & witches are tutored.
IMAJINAEREUM: Another realm in which a rival magical school stands. Tony, one of Sam’s friends, winds up at the gothic Imajinaereum institute learning dark magic, an art with which he’s obsessed. Tormented by his friends’ betrayal, Tony befriends Serafina, a broken girl with a dark agenda.
Book 3
The third instalment in the Blood Quintet Series delivers a riveting continuation of the cliffhanger ending of Binds of Silver Magic.
After being tricked into leaving the magical haven of Nox Regia, Sam and his friends re-enter their community of Hargreave Hollow only for tragedy to strike immediately. The ill-fated friends barely have time to mourn as they find the place shrouded in deep, preternatural darkness. Furthermore, every non-magical being is either missing, or dead. All of these occurrences point to one thing: the apocalyptic Veil Rapture has begun, and its symptoms match Seer Sybel’s prophecy to the devilish detail. Sam and his friends have the power to stop it, but they cannot do it without their fallen friend.
After a heartbreaking series of events, Kane is plunged into the soul-crushing underworld of Hellenogyrum. Despite his hollowed out chest, he is not dead. Who knew there was a magical school for children whom were touched by death but not taken? Depressed both by the hellish atmosphere and the prospect of permanent death, Kane meets demons, dragons, and children with frightening abilities. There is hope of making it back to his friends, but he has a tall task ahead: he has to win his Monomakia duel, or his very soul will be destroyed.
In this chapter of the Blood Quintet series, Asher crafts a mesmerizing tale perfect for fans of Sabaa Tahir and Holly Black.