They call me an Earthsider: as if I've crossed a line, chosen a side. My people, the Imria, think I'm a little unusual because of that. She can take whatever she wants from me, whenever she wants it, because I’m her best friend.”Ī Line in the Dark is a story of love, loyalty, and murder. “It doesn’t even matter that she probably doesn’t understand how much she means to me. When the inevitable darkness finally descends, Angie will need her best friend. Secrets and cruelty lie just beneath the carefree surface of this world of wealth and privilege, and when they come out, Jess knows Angie won’t be able to handle the consequences. Suddenly her powers of observation are more curse than gift.Īs Angie drags Jess further into Margot’s circle, Jess discovers more than her friend’s growing crush. But when Angie begins to fall for Margot Adams, a girl from the nearby boarding school, Jess can see it coming a mile away.
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While nobody notices her, she’s free to watch everyone else. Being the girl no one quite notices is OK with Jess anyway. And that’s the most important thing, even if Angie can’t see how Jess truly feels. Jess Wong is Angie Redmond’s best friend. The line between best friend and something more is a line always crossed in the dark. The exciting adventure prequel to Malinda Lo's highly acclaimed novel Ash is overflowing with lush Chinese influences and details inspired by the I Ching, and is filled with action and romance. But the Kingdom needs only one huntress to save it, and what it takes could tear Kaede and Taisin apart forever. As members of their party succumb to unearthly attacks and fairy tricks, the two come to rely on each other and even begin to fall in love. And yet the two girls' destinies are drawn together during the mission. Taisin is a sage, thrumming with magic, and Kaede is of the earth, without a speck of the otherworldly. To solve the crisis, the oracle stones are cast, and Kaede and Taisin, two seventeen-year-old girls, are picked to go on a dangerous and unheard-of journey to Tanlili, the city of the Fairy Queen. The people's survival hangs in the balance. Worse yet, strange and hostile creatures have begun to appear. The sun hasn't shone in years, and crops are failing. Nature is out of balance in the human world. Malinda Lo's digital exclusive novella companion to Adaptation and Inheritance takes readers on a journey through Amber's past, giving fans a glimpse into her life on Kurra and a deeper understanding of one of Adaptation's most compelling characters. But when Amber undergoes kibila, a traditional Imrian coming-of-age ceremony during which Amber will choose her name and identity for the next fifteen years, she will be forced to either accept her role in both worlds or forge her own path. And even when she returns to Kurra, her human experiences, including first love and heartache, still separate her from her fellow Imrians. Imrian by blood, Amber was forced to hide her true self to pass as human during the time she spent on earth. Gone native.īefore she met her girlfriend Reese, before she knew the role she would play in the fate of two worlds, Amber was a fifteen-year-old Imrian torn between two identities. When Reese unexpectedly collides with the beautiful Amber Gray, her search for the truth is forced in an entirely new direction-and threatens to expose a vast global conspiracy that the government has worked for decades to keep secret.
San Francisco feels like a different place with police enforcing curfew, hazmat teams collecting dead birds, and a strange presence that seems to be following her. Things become even stranger when Reese returns home. When they wake up in a military hospital, the doctor won’t tell them what happened, where they are-or how they’ve been miraculously healed.
On their drive home to San Francisco, along a stretch of empty highway at night in the middle of Nevada, a bird flies into their headlights. Everyone knows the world will never be the same. Reese and her debate team partner and longtime crush David are in Arizona when it happens. Fearing terrorism, the United States government grounds all flights, and millions of travelers are stranded. She only knows one thing: She’s different now.Īcross North America, flocks of birds hurl themselves into airplanes, causing at least a dozen to crash. Reese can’t remember anything from the time between the accident and the day she woke up almost a month later.
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