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Zera is an immortal, unwilling, and irreverent servant to the witch Nightsinger, who keeps Zera's heart in a jar. Offered the opportunity to win her freedom in exchange for stealing (literally) the heart of Prince Lucien, Zera discovers there's more to Lucien--and the political factions of the kingdom--than she realized. This wittily narrated fantasy, first in a series, ends with a cliffhanger.
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Orphaned street youth Rain Ryland, seventeen, moves to a small town in Texas to live with his police officer aunt. There he meets "fierce and smart and painfully sexy" girl Freddie Burkhart. Freddie guards a family secret, one that could threaten their growing affection, while a series of unexplained murders places her secret in grave danger. Well-crafted characters and descriptive language add appeal to this paranormal-romance/thriller hybrid.
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Rumor, Nyx, Dahlia, Jude, and Braeden live on the same planet, but they come from vastly different backgrounds. Raised to either fear or befriend the native gargoyles, the teens have twenty-seven hours to untangle the politics behind human-monster warfare and save their planet. These characters, with a laudably wide range of gender and sexual identities, ultimately lead readers to question what makes someone human.