The Wicked Lovely series by Melissa Marr

Wicked Lovely: Book One

Since before Aislinn could talk, her grandmother taught her three rules to live by. Rule #3 - Don't stare at invisible fairies. Rule #2 - Don't speak to invisible fairies. Rule #1 - Don't ever attract their attention. She and her grandmother are they only ones who can see them. So when Aislinn begins to notice the fey following her everywhere, she becomes concerned. Her world is turned upside down when she attracts the attention of a powerful fairy who is able to hold a gorgeous glamour even in the presence of iron. Ash is unnerved when she finds that Keenan is hard to resist.

Keenan, the weak Summer King, is the son of Beira, the vengeful Winter Queen. She will do everything in her authority to keep her son powerless. Each of his potential mates have failed Beira's test and are bound to carry her cold until the next girl attempts to become Keenan's queen. When he sees Aislinn, Keenan is covinced she is the one he has been searching for the past nine centuries. Aislinn is determined to avoid him at all costs, but what's a girl to do when Keenan is determined to make her his queen.

When Aislinn confesses what is going on to her friend Seth, he easily accepts the fairy world and offers to help protect her. Aislinn is soon torn between the mortal and fairy worlds. Live a normal life with Seth or become Keenan's queen and stop the continuing spread of winter. What's a girl to choose?

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Ink Exchange: Book Two

Ink Exchange picks up after the events in Wicked Lovely. Instead of focusing on Aislinn, Keenan and Seth, this book revolves around Ash's friend Leslie and her attraction to two different fey. Leslie leads a horrible home life. Her mother left her behind to deal with her alcoholic father and drug dealing brother. She dreams of college, escape and a tattoo to reclaim her life. When she finally decides on an image of Rabbit's creation at the Pins and Needles shop, Leslie is happy even though Rabbit questions her choice. She is.

Since Beira's death and Aislinn's assentation to the Summer court, there is upheavial in the fairy realms. Irial, leader of the Dark Court, is struggling to maintain power. With Rabbit's help, the tattoo Leslie chooses will bind her in ways to Irial and the fairy world she never imagined. Kept in the dark about the fey by Aislinn, Leslie begins to experience werid sensations and visions that she believes aren't true. When Aislinn takes notice of Irial's attention towards her friend, Keenan's closest advisor, Niall, offers to protect Leslie, even though her is dangerously attracted to her. Soon Leslie finds herself drawn not only between two different "men", but into the fairy world. Will Leslie be strong enough to survive?

Fragile Eternity: Book Three

Aislinn, now the Summer Court Queen, is the love of Seth Morgan's life. Even a mortal with  powerful connections isn't completely safe in the faery world. Plus there is that whole mortality thing going on. Just how far is Seth willing to go in an attempt to spend eternity with Aislinn?

Radiant Shadows: Book Four

When half-faery, half-mortal Ani, the daughter of Gabriel meets Devlin, she is immediately atrracted. What Ani doesn't know is that years ago Devlin, the High Queen's assassin was sent to kill her. He didn't and now the embodiment of War wants her blood. Cam Devlin save Ani's life and make things right amongst the faeries?

Darkest Mercy:  Book five

The conclusion to Melissa Marr's Wicked Lovely series.

Death has come to Huntsdale. Keenan has left the Summer Court and the veil to Faerie is closed. Turmoil and upheaval reside with the Dark Court and Seth Morgan once again walks amongst the fearies. With Bananach actively seeking a Declaration of War, fey and alliances are shifting In the thrilling conclusin to the Wicked Lovely series, some live, some die, and life altering decisions are made.

The Eternal Ones by Kirsten Miller

"What if Live Refused to Die."
Haven Moore cannot wait to leave behind her small hometown of Snope City, Tennessee and get away from her domineering grandmother. From a young age, Haven has experienced visions that she has come to believe tell of a past life she led. The talk of the town, she has one true friend, Beau Decker, her partner in a fashion design business. When Haven sees a troubled young socialite on TV one night, her visions return with a vengence. Only now, Haven realizes that she may have previously lived as a young woman named Constance who died in a tragic fire, along with her boyfriend Ethan.

With the return of her visions, Haven's grandmother decides that she is too unwell to attend the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. Her mother, fragile since her father's death, shows her a shoebox that her father kept for her. In it, he wrote everything Haven ever said while having the visions as a child. She realizes that he believed in her and didn't think she was crazy. When she discovers drawings that she did as a child, Haven is even more convinced that she is Constance reincarnated who is searching for her soulmate. But when she learns of her father's affair at the time of his death, she realizes how foolish her mother was to believe in true love and how her world came crashing down. Haven decides she needs to slowly make decisions regarding her visions so that she doesn't nake the same mistake as her mother.

Beau does some investigating to an organization that Haven's father wrote to for help years ago, the Ouroboros Society. The Society aims to help people who think they have led previous lives. When Haven has a vision at school, her life is soon in danger. She is no longer safe in Snope City when her home is burned down. She contacts the Society for help.

Is Haven really Constance reincarnated? Will she discover that Ethan is really Iain Morrow? What were the circumstances surrounding Constance and Ethan's death? Can the Ouroboros Society be trusted? Will history repeat itself or can Haven change its course?

Haven's story continues with book two, All You Desire on August 8, 2011.

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Unearthly by Cynthia Hand

"In the beginning, there's a boy standing in the trees ..."

At the age of fourteen, Clara Gardner discovers that she she is part angel, just like her mother. Eventually Clara will learn her purpose, what she was put on Earth to do. She soon begins to have visions after hre sixteenth birthday. A forest fire and a boy about her age, whose face she cannot see, occur to her when she least expects it. While on the phone with her estranged father one night, Clara sees a truck and is able to read its license plate in the vision. Six weeks later, Clara, her mother and younger brother move to Jackson Hole, Wyoming in search of her purpose.

On her first day of high school, Clara sees the truck from her vision in the parking lot. It is not until later in the day does she recognize the boy from behind. Upon walking closer to him, he turns around and their eyes meet. Clara is immediately transported back to her vision and promptly faints. When she awakens, Clara is helped by Wendy, her first real friend in Jackson. Soon the boy comes with the nurse and she finds out his name is Christian and faints again. Clara arrives to her English class late and sits next to Wendy. In introducing the class to one another, Clara learns that Christian has a girlfriend, Kay.

As Clara settles into her new life in Wyoming, everything seems to be falling into place regarding her vision about Christian. Soon Christian and Kay break up and Clara asks him to the prom. When Kay and Christian are crowned prom king and queen, Clara is left out when Kay breaks down in tears. Christian needs to take her home so Wendy's twin brother Tucker offers Clara a ride and she accepts. Clara realizes that Christian is still in love with Kay and that maybe all her vision means is that she is suppose to save his life, not necessarily fall in love.

When all of Clara's friends, including Christian, have plans for the summer away from Jackson, she is feeling abandoned. When Wendy arranges for Tucker to be Clara's tour guide for her birthday, she decides to go along for the adventure. Soon Clara and Tucker are spending every day together and Christian fades to a distant memory. But as fire season approaches, Clara is faced with the ultimate decision she never dreamed she would have to make. Don't fret at the ending, the author is writing book two in the series due out in January 2012.

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The Lost Saint by Bree Despain (Dark Divine book 2)

"A family destroyed. A love threatened. An enemy returns."

SPOILER ALERT! Please do not read any further if you haven't read the first book in the series, The Dark Divine. I don't want to ruin the story for you.

Ten months have passed since the ending of The Dark Divine. Jude has disappeared, Daniel is cured of the wolf curse and Grace is learning more about her new found abilities. Life in the Divine house hold is difficult since Jude's disappearance. Grace's mother watches news reports and constantly looks for him in the background while her father is always gone looking for him. Now Daniel has become sistant and is pulling away from Grace. Grace is determined to use her neew wolf abilities into finding Jude, even if her life is in danger. Since Daniel is keeping secrets, Grace turns to Talbot, her volunteer partner for a service project for school. Talbot knows who Grace is and offers to help train her abilities and find Jude. But what happens when things aren't what they seem and a deadly enemy returns? Fans of The Dark Divine are going to be completely blown away by the ending and left waiting for the next installment.

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Firelight by Sophie Jordan

"A hidden truth. Mortal enemies. Doomed love."

When Jacinda and her friend Az sneak out early one morning to fly, they know they are breaking the rules of their pride. Jacinda and Az are draki, descendants of dragons, who are able to elude hunters by shifting into human form. When they encounter a group of hunters, things quickly go down hill for the pair. Az panics and Jacinda, the faster of the two, decides to draw the hunters to herself. Jacinda is injured and forced to hide in a cave along the shores of a deep pool. When one of the hunters, a gorgeous young boy her age comes looking for her, she never expects him to let her go. Even more surprising is what Will whispers when her touches her, beautiful.

Soon the hunters leave and Jacinda goes to look for Az. She is shocked to learn Az made it back to the pride and an alarm has been sounded. There hasn't been an alarm since her father's disappearance years ago. But Jacinda isn't an ordinary draki. She is the first fire breather in her pride in four hundred years and faster than Cassian, the alpha draki's son who has his eye on her. When her mother, who no longer manifests into draki form, decides to take her daughters away from the pride, Jacinda is crushed. Her twin sister, Tamra, who never manifested and is human, is thrilled to be leaving, especially since her crush on Cassian will never be reciprociated. Their mother takes them to the desert where her own draki dried out years earlier.

Tamra is enjoying their new life while Jacinda is miserable. Jacinda knows her draki is doomed until she feels a dangerous presence in her midst. She knows it is Will before she even sees him. It takes everything Jacinda has not to manifest in the school hallway. Tamra tells her to stay away from him, which becomes impossible when he sits next to her in study hall. Soon two other dangerous boys begin talking to Will. He intorduces Jacinda to his cousins Xander and Agnus and Jacinda realizes that they are hunters as well. Will tells her he is not a good  guy and leaves when the bell rings.

Jacinda feels her draki withering in the dry heat of the desert, except when it threatens to erupt around Will. Jacinda is desperate to get back to her pride, even though she realizes that her mother has been less than truthful about the pride and will become Cassian's mate. Will she risk everything to be with Will in an attempt to keep her draki alive even though he is her natural enemy? And what will happen when she realizes she is in love with Will and Cassian finds where they are hiding?

Jacinda's story continues in Vanish. 

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Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly

Ever since her younger brother's death, Andi and her parents have been swallowed by grief. Her father, a Nobel winning DNA scientist, is as consumed with his work as ever and has moved on with a new girlfriend. Her mother, an artist, paints portriats of Turman all day and night, commenting that she can never get the color of his eyes right. Andi is a senior at a prestigious Brooklyn prep school. She is gifted both academically and as a guitartist, but is failing out of school over her guilt in Truman's death. When her father finds out from the school that Andi hasn't started her senior thesis, he encounters a house filled with grief. He checks her mother into a mental hospital for treatment and takes Andi with him to Paris where he is going to be working on a project and she can begin her thesis outline.

Andi and her father go to stay with his college roommate, G, who is a world famous expert on the French Rvolution. G is looking for the financial backing to start a museum on the Revolution and has brought in Andi's famous father to help him on a gentic experiment. G wishes to do DNA testing on what is believed to be the heart of Louis-Charles, the son of King Louis XVI and Marie Antionette. When Andi sees pictures of the heart encased in its glass urn and a portriat of the ten year old heir, she immediately thinks of Truman. The resembalance is uncanny. G allows her to play an expensive antique guitar that he illegally purchased from someone who found it in the catacombs beneath Paris. Andi is thrilled to be playing such a fine guitar. In looking at it's case, she realizes that the lock is broken and begins to work on opening it. In a last ditch effort to free the lock, the key Andi keeps around her neck falls from her shirt. The key belonged to Truman and Andi has worn it since his death. She tries it in the lock and it works. When the bottom opens, Andi thinks she has broken the case but soon realizes that it has a false bottom. In it she finds a miniature portriat of Louis-Charles and a diary written during the Revolution.

Soon Andi is drawn into the diary of a young girl named Alex who was the companion for Louis-Charles. The diary is her way to get his story to the public but was lost for the past 200 years. Between working on her thesis outline and reading the diary, Andi meets a handsome young taxi driver who is an aspiring musician. She soon finds herself falling in love with Virgil but is terrified by becoming close to someone after walling herself and her emotions off from the rest of the world.

Will Andi be able to pick up the pieces of her life and resolve her feelings of guilt over Truman's death? Can she repair her broken relationship with her father and manage to write her thesis? Is Andi capable of revealing herself not only to Virgil but herself? And what will happen to Alex in the diary and the mysterious Louis-Charle? Does the story end well for either girl?

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Matched by Allyson Condie

In the future, Society will determine what you eat, where you work and how you spend your free time. More importantly, Society determines who you will marry. For Cassia Reyes, she is thrilled that her Matched ceremony occurs on her seventeenth birthday. Even better, Cassia is Matched with Xander, whom she has known since childhood. Cassia sees her life as perfect. She will get to spend the rest of her life with her best friend. So when Cassia reads her microcard on Xander from her Matched ceremony, she is shocked when Xander's photo fades into Ky Markham, a boy she also knows.

Later that evening while at rec time, an official from the Societal Classification Department comes to talk to Cassia. She informs Cassia that what happened is a rare mistake and hopes that someone didn't play a cruel joke. Cassia realizes that Ky is a Single, someone who will not be Matched or allowed to have children. Only those Matched are allowed children. No, the official says. "He's not a Single. Ky Markham is an Aberration." People who are Aberrations have usually incurred an infraction but that knowledge is not publically known. Cassia is told to keep this information to herself. She asks if she may tell her Grandfather whose 80th birthday is in a couple of days. The official says that would be alright. In Cassia's Society, one's eightieth birthday is also the day one dies. As Cassia's family prepares for Grandfather's final banquet, he tells Cassia to bring his mother's gold compact. The compact is Cassia's artifact, the one item from past society that she is allowed to keep. He reveals that there is a secret piece of paper inside that he finds comfort in. He also tells her to be true to herself before he passes away.

Since her Match ceremony and the blunder with the microcard, Cassia begins to see Ky Markham everywhere. She is surprised when they share the same summer rec activity, hiking. With no instruction, the group is told to meet at the top. Cassia takes off through the woods. Near the top, she stops and hides. She pulls out her compact to read the slip of paper hidden there. On it are two poems, but they are not a part of the 100 poems that Society has chosen. As Cassia reads the Dylan Thomas poem, she quickly realizes why it wasn't chosen. It is about fighting for what you believe in and Cassia begins to understand what her Grandfather's final words to her truly mean.

Soon Cassia finds herself drawn to Ky even though she is Matched to Xander. As the two get to know more about each other on their hikes, Cassia begins to question Society's control over every aspects of their lives, especially when Society begins to tighten their control. Will Cassia assume the role Society has planned for her or does she take her Grandfather's last advise and follow her heart?

Cassia'a story continues with Crossed on November 1, 2011.

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