On the surface Emma Cole's life seems perfect. With looks, brains and superhuman abilities, there's little that fazes her. That is, until she begins the search for her biological family.
Emma winds up in Rushwood, Oregon, where being the new fae girl in town is just the least of her worries.
Her biological father won't rest until she's dead, the fae's Earthbound resistance expects her to lead them, and her only hope of making any of her troubles right, depends on a journey to a mystical place just beyond Earth's realm.
Help comes from unlikely sources, but in a town like Rushwood, Emma's seldom sure who she can trust.
With betrayal and deception the norm, resisting the charms of local boy Noah should be easy, yet Emma soon finds herself caught in a sexy, but dangerous romance.
Then there's the matter of what she truly is, a guarded secret that when revealed, makes life as Emma Cole more perilous than she would have ever imagined.
Fans of YA Adventure & Action/Fantasy, strap in and hold on. This is just the beginning of Emma's story . . .
Excerpt:
"Emma, you're daydreaming again," my best friend Chloe whispered deep into my ear. She was right it would seem, half the class had already left and the other half were fooling around with some kid I'd been in classes with for years, but still never caught his name.
"They should make school more educational, then I'd pay attention," Chloe rolled her brown eyes. It was a thing with her, one that made me wonder what it'd be like to have them stop. To make her brown eyes just not move anymore. I almost laughed thinking about the freak out session Chloe would have.
"If by educational you mean fun, then of course I agree," she said now, making a little room so I could stand.
"By educational I mean educational Chloe, you know how boring this stuff is to me." We walked towards the exit and paused, waiting on the throng of students busy rushing to their second period classes, before stepping cautiously out to go to our own. It was history with the most monotonic teacher that ever existed. History with Mrs. Rhineheart.
"We aren't all geniuses Emma," Chloe said dryly, her eyeballs making their circumference so quickly that I would miss it if I blinked.
"I've told you before," I responded calmly, pulling the aluminum handle of our classroom door, "I'm not a genius Chloe, I'm just better at most things than other people are," I wrinkled my nose a bit at this and Chloe laughed at my jab. We didn't have a petty kind of friendship like the Pinks who ruled the cafeteria, lockers and well, anywhere they decided was theirs on school property, or like the Geeks who constantly tried to one-up each other to see who'd be employed by Google first. Chloe and I were simply friends. It was why what I was going to do to her wouldn't be fun, or educational for me. In fact, I was sure I wouldn't like it one bit.
The school day dragged on as they always did, with one teacher blurring into another. Literature becoming foreign languages, languages becoming numbers, numbers becoming music. It was like a never-ending flood of useless information, its only purpose to keep me away from my true calling. My true purpose.
I was sitting with Chloe and a few of our Peripherals, a private name we'd attached to the three others who made up our little band of merry souls. In truth, we were known around school as the Emos, for no other reason than we'd all mutually decided that we'd become 'freaks who no one could ever love' -- Lucy Queen of the Pinks had screamed at us once.
What had begun as a simple joke, a way to annoy others, had turned into a lifestyle. It worked out perfectly for all involved. Chloe and I sat at the top of the pyramid, then there was Chaz, Barry and Dominic. We were blissful in our solitude. Besides a few bullying attempts - even the jocks steered clear of Dominic our resident strong man - our little group worried about little.
