Stealing Phoenix (35 page)

‘
You have half our gifts, I have the other …’

When English girl, Sky, catches a glimpse of bad boy Zed in her new American high school, she can’t get him out of her head. He talks to her with his thoughts. He reads her mind. He is the boy she will love for ever. Shadows still stalk her past but a new evil threatens her future. Sky must face the dark even if it means losing her heart.

A hidden truth, mortal enemies, and a forbidden love …

As a draki forced to live in the mortal world, the one thing that makes Jacinda’s life bearable is Will. She knows she should avoid him at all costs, for Will and his family hunt her kind. But the passion he stirs within her can’t be ignored, even if it means risking her life …

‘Travel to Skagen and find him. Give him my letter. Seek a better life, Marianne! Promise!’

Bound by a vow made to her dying mother, Marianne sells her few belongings and leaves Grimsby. Her destination? Denmark, where she will search for her father, Lars Christensen—the golden-haired fisherman her mother fell in love with many years before.

Will the father she has never met welcome the arrival of his illegitimate child? And why didn’t he return for her mother, as he promised he would?

Identity and secrets. People smuggling and kidnapping. Family alliances and bitter enmity. Fashion and falsehoods. In this powerful coming-of-age novel three friends will have to face harsh truths about their world.

However painful or dangerous it may be …

The box had been sealed and hidden for hundreds of years, but what lay within it was only dormant … waiting for the time when it would be released, and let loose upon the world.

And that time was about to come …

That time is now.

A stunning novel from Carnegie Medal shortlisted

author, Julie Hearn.