The Rising Expert + Info On Both Series

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Darkest Powers and Darkness Rising are two different series by Kelley Armstrong connected through supernaturals and...experiments and...some characters. The first trilogy, Darkest Powers, are these three books:

The Summoning, The Awakening, and The Reckoning

Here is the summary for the first book, taken from the paperback edition:

She sees dead people-and they see her.

Chloe Saunders used to have a pretty normal life. But that changed on the day she met her first ghost. Locked up in Lyle House, a group home for troubled teens, she finds out that there's more to the home's teen residents than meets the eye. Will Chloe be able to uncover the dangerous secrets of Lyle House...or will its skeletons come back to haunt her?

This thrilling first volume in the supernaturally charged Darkest Powers series by international bestselling author Kelley Armstrong will keep readers awake well into the darkest time of night.

The second series, called Darkness Rising, are these two plus the one at the top:

The Gathering and The Calling

Here is the summary from the first book, taken from the hardcover edition:

Sixteen-year-old Maya is just an ordinary teen in an ordinary town. Sure, she doesn't know about her background-the only thing she really has to cling to is an odd paw-print birthmark on her hip-but she never really put that much thought  into who her parents were or how she ended up with her adopted parents in thus tiny medical-research community on Vancouver Island.

Until now.

Strange things have been happening in this claustrophobic town-from the mountain lions that have been approaching Maya to her best friend's hidden talent for "feeling" out people and situations to the sexy new bad boy who makes Maya feel...different. Combine that with a few unexplained deaths and a mystery involving Maya's biological parents and it's easy to suspect that this town might have more than its share of skeletons in its closet.

In The Gathering, New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong brings all the supernatural thrills from her wildly successful Darkest Powers series to Darkness Rising, her scorching hot new trilogy.  

These two series mostly consist of different characters, with a few exceptions, until The Rising.