I need help finding three different books. Two are a series. The other might a stand alone. I read both in high school and can't for the life of me remember the names or authors.
The first series is a fantasy series that i sort of remember but not a lot. The main characters are a mage or a curse breaker (can't remember which) and his apprentice. The books have three artifacts on the spines in hardcover, one of which is a crown, another a ring, and i can't remember the third. (SPOILER INBOUND)
The apprentice is corrupted or cursed in the second book and dies in the finale.
The stand alone book focuses on two characters, a rich girl or daughter of a scientist or engineer being the first. It might actually be two books, but it's definitely not a trilogy. The main characters are involved in a tower that reaches into space, like the tower of babel. A group of terrorists try destroying it as they are ascending, and there's something about atmospheric organisms that are also a danger but ALSO what is part of what is being studied. It's characterization is amazing, and for some reason my brain always compared the two main characters with the two characters from the leviathan trilogy but genderswapped.
The third takes place in an island area. Two main characters. Both sisters. In it, there's psychics that can predict the weather and other events. Having one of these in your village is a huge boon from the off island governments that rule them. One of the sisters is mute and possibly disabled, but the main sister and even entire village try to fake that she is one of these psychics. Eventually, it's reviewed, and they almost succeed until the investigator is believed to be poisoned by the villagers. All of them are killed while escaping except for the sisters, whereas the first tried to get to the bottom of it. Eventually she joins a group of people on the island that are basically a revenge secret society. She is anointed by being given a single butterfly wing, only earning the second of she "takes the name" of those that have wronged her. The second sister turns out to actually BE a psychic who simply left her body as a toddler, and tries finding her way back.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!