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Book summary:
Rylie has it all - great friends, dream boy, loving family.
But on the eve of her sixteenth birthday, her perfect little world shatters. A
stranger claiming to be her real mother appears with a secret: Rylie is a faery
whose powers will be unleashed on her birthday. Captured and forced into a new
life, Rylie struggles to keep everything she loves and discovers a terrifying truth:
some promises cannot be broken.
Excerpt
My mother led her into the living room. The lady’s piercing
green eyes rested on me, sending a chill down my back. My father followed her
gaze. “Rylie, do you know this woman?” Dad asked.
“No.” I shook my head slowly. “I’ve never seen her before.”
“Rylie, maybe you should go to your room,” Dad suggested,
his gaze demanding I do as he said.
“No. If this has something to do with me, I want to hear
it.” I crossed my arms and sank against the back of the couch.
Mom and Dad exchanged a worried glance, but turned back to
the lady on the couch. “Please, go on.”
Without taking her eyes from me, the lady calmly stated, “My
name is Azura, and I am Rylie’s birth mother.”
My father, who was always a level-headed man, was on his
feet in seconds, his face hard. “What are you talking about?”
I felt like I had fallen into some kind of parallel
universe. Did this woman just say she was my birth mother? How could she be my
birth mother? That would mean I was adopted, but wouldn’t my parents have told
me something like that?
My mother shook her head. “Birth mother? Rylie isn’t
adopted.” She reached over and took my hand. “Believe me, I’ll never forget the
eleven hours of labor.”
The woman sat perfectly still in the blue armchair across
from us, with her hands clasped on her lap. “I know it’s hard to accept, but
it’s true. Your daughter died shortly after she was born. I switched the
infants. Rylie is mine.”
The wind left me as if I had been punched in the stomach. I
couldn’t breathe, and the room spun. I gripped the pillow next to me with my
other hand as I clung to my mother.
Silence filled the room for a moment, and then my father
exploded. “You need to leave now!” He pointed to the door. “Get out of this
house and don’t come back without a court order.”
The lady smiled sincerely, her face still as calm as it had
been when she walked in the door. “Please, hear me out. I realize this is a lot
to take in.”
“No! This is preposterous! Nobody died. Rylie is ours.”
Dad’s voice was like thunder.
I studied the lady. She seemed so honest and soft-spoken.
Why would she pretend something like this? Why would she ruin our family if it
weren’t true? And if was true, why was she coming clean now? Something in me
believed her even though I didn’t want to. I swallowed hard and rubbed my
sweaty palms on my shirt.
“Let her talk,” I said hoarsely.
“Rylie, you can’t believe her.” Dad looked stricken.
“I’m curious as to why she thinks I’m her daughter. Let’s
hear her out.” I crossed my arms and scooted closer to my mother, comforted
when she wrapped an arm around me.
Dad turned back to the woman called Azura, and his frown
deepened. “Fine.” He sat back down in his seat and glared. “Talk.”
“Thank you. I’m going to tell you something not many humans
know, and I have to trust you to keep it secret for Rylie’s sake.” She
addressed the statement to my parents.
Humans? Who talks like that?
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Book summary:
Seventeen-year-old succubus Lily Anderson can’t have a
normal life: She isn't allowed a boyfriend, she has no friends, and school is
just one mess-up after another.
Lily’s parents send her away to the prestigious Emerson
Academy. It doesn’t appear to be any different from the others. That is, until
she meets her roommate, Hannah, and a blue-eyed boy named Jake.
Lily makes an almost deadly mistake, and Jake has a
mysterious past that has come back to haunt him. Together, they must go on the
run from things neither of them understand in order to save the people they
love—and each other. But, Jake’s foe is more dangerous than they realized, and
it will take the help of friends and family to save the man Lily loves.
She must learn to use her powers for good before it’s too
late.
*This is a mature YA. Due to sexual content and some
language it is not recommended for younger teens.
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