"Ten years ago this season, Gregory Maguire wrapped up the series he began with Wicked by giving us the fourth and final volume of the Wicked Years, his elegiac Out of Oz. But "out of Oz" isn't "gone for good." Maguire's new series, Another Day, is here, twenty-five years after Wicked first flew into our lives. Volume one, The Brides of Maracoor, finds Elphaba's granddaughter, Rain, washing ashore on a foreign island. Comatose from crashing into the...

Princess Rosemary von Velfalt continues her quest to lead a peaceful life in the Kingdom of Nevel and win the heart of her beloved Sir Leonhart. Though she's already stopped one war, enemies still lurk beyond Nevel's borders, and the threat of a plague looms large. And then of course, there's the issue of the malevolent demon lord... Or so she thinks, until one day her carriage narrowly avoids crashing into Michael, a goofy boy who happens to be physically...