Princess Aster and Princess Ursula are the only children of the Bear Major, high
king and head of the royal House of the Hemoth Bear. Rivals, both girls dream of
becoming queen someday, although neither really deserve to–brilliant, spoiled,
and difficult, they have little to recommend them.
But everything changes when fire and murder come to their castle, and the crown
is stolen from their family.
Overnight, the girls are forced onto the run, along with the half-grown grizzly
Alcor, the symbol of their house, and the lowly bearkeeper Dev. As a bitter
struggle for the throne consumes the kingdom in civil war, dragging every family
from the House of Hounds to the House of the Ox into chaos, the sisters must rely
on Dev, Alcor, and each other to survive–and find wells of courage, cunning, and
skill they never knew they had.
From celebrated fantasist Meaghan McIsaac comes The Bear House, the first entry
in a new middle-grade fantasy series set in a gritty medieval world where the
ruling houses are based on the constellations–and the stakes are sky-high.

Return to the gritty medieval world of the Bear Highen in this thrilling high-fantasy follow-up to The Bear House!

The war for the throne is over. Aster, at fourteen, has defeated her uncle and taken the crown to become the High Queen of the Bear Highen. Peace is good, but things are still difficult–first love and first rule don’t mix easily–and when
Aster stumbles on a young girl living in a nest of dragons, matters become even more tangled.

Because this girl is not a girl at all. She is a living star, come down from her constellation on a mission both terrible and glorious. And there is no shortage of people who would use her astonishing powers for their own ends–rival kings,
rival friends, and even three deadly sisters from the plane of demons, one of whom has an offer Aster may find it difficult to refuse. …

This second book in the fiery, thrilling Bear House series is as intense, imaginative, and sprawling as the first, with cosmic stakes, a heartfelt love triangle, and worldending choices to make. Can the young bear queen survive?