Clara Thorn
🥇 WINNER - Young Adult - American Fiction Awards 2023
🥇 FINALIST - Fantasy (General) - American Fiction Awards 2023
Clara Thorn has spent her whole life being ordinary — moving from city to city, blending in, keeping her head down. But ordinary has an expiration date, and Clara’s is about to run out.
When her magic finally emerges at the end of 7th grade, Clara learns the truth her parents have always kept close: she’s a witch, and the human Paladins who hunt her kind are very real. What follows is a journey from the world she’s always known into Underhill — a magical dimension where witches can live freely — and into the full, astonishing weight of who she actually is.
But Clara isn’t just any witch. She’s a mathemagician, gifted with a once-in-a-generation ability to see all of magic as a swirling mass of rainbow-colored equations — and to rewrite them. In a world where the Paladins are gaining ground, hoarding mysterious holy relics and dismantling the magical Anchors that protect her people, that gift may be the only thing that turns the tide.
The Clara Thorn trilogy is a complete, three-book young adult fantasy following one girl from discovery to mastery to the fight of her life. It’s a story about belonging, identity, and what it means to finally stop hiding — told with wit, heart, and just enough magic to rewrite the rules.
Praise for Clara Thorn
[Clara’s] synesthesialike power showcases the author’s radiant prose: “Clara realized that the room—the very air—was filled with glowing equations—not the usual soft reds, blues, and greens she was used to seeing, but angry, bright primary colors muddied with brown and black.” -Kirkus Reviews
Clara Thorn: The Witch that was Found is an incredibly well written Young Adult Fantasy - using magical realism to bring the enchanting world of Underhill to life. The lore of the world he has created is easy to understand, as he reveals it in dribs and drabs, allowing the reader to learn about this new realm at the same speed as Clara, the protagonist. He has hit on all of the typical tropes including found family and magic schools, while managing to create something completely and utterly unique. - Reedsy.com
Jones links math and magic in a way that makes math seem cool, and fans of Harry Potter will enjoy some familiar story beats, right down to a magical version of an athletic competition. Fresh ideas, some welcome diversity, and memorable character work enliven the material… -Booklife
Book 1 Clara Thorn, the witch that was found
Clara has no friends, a complicated home life, and a knack for not quite fitting in — until three classmates vanish into a magical world hidden beneath Las Vegas and she's the only one who follows. Suddenly she's the chosen one standing between an entire hidden realm and the exile who wants to destroy it, armed mostly with determination and the growing suspicion that her parents knew about all of this the whole time. Vegas is weird, but Underhill is weirder.
Ebook: ASIN B0B7ZLZZGW (available on Kindle Unlimited)
Paperback: ISBN 978-1953645-07-4
Hardcover: ISBN 978-1-953645-08-1
Audiobook available (ASIN B0CC6FH54G on Amazon)
Book 2 Clara Thorn, the witch that fought
A year after discovering her rare gift for mathemagic — seeing all of magic as shifting, colorful equations she can rewrite at will — Clara is back at witch school and finally hitting her stride. But her dream-elf friend brings unsettling news: one last Border remains to be raised, deep in a mysterious northern forest where something unknown is waiting. Clara's just getting comfortable, which is exactly when things get complicated.
Ebook: ASIN B0CTLRV892 (available on Kindle Unlimited)
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-953645-13-5
Hardcover: ISBN 978-1-953645-14-2
AI-narrated Audiobook available (ASIN B0CX6GDT6T2 on Amazon)
Book 3 Clara Thorn, the witch that won
In the final chapter of the Clara Thorn trilogy, witches are losing — hunted by Paladins wielding mysterious holy relics, squeezed toward an Underhill exile that would mean slow extinction, and now facing a Blood Witch and a Time Incarnation working against them. Clara and her dwindling crew are the last ones still fighting, chasing leads across the globe and forging desperate alliances. The hardest question isn't how to win — it's figuring out what winning even looks like.
Ebook: ASIN B0CYJ9Q4Z4 (available on Kindle Unlimited)
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-953645-16-6
Hardcover: ISBN 978-1-953645-17-3
Book Omnibus Clara Thorn 3-novel omnibus edition
All three 'Clara Thorn' novels under one cover.
Ebook: ASIN B0DH2XZW9H (available on Kindle Unlimited)
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-953645-18-0
Hardcover: ISBN 978-1-953645-19-7
Classmates: short stories from Clara Thorn
A free collection of short stories that explore Clara's classmates.
Available as an ebook.
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