I was born in Hawaii, moved from there to New York, spent the years of World War II in my mother’s hometown: Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and from there went to Tokyo when I was eleven. I was a solitary child who lived in the world of books and my own vivid imagination.īecause my father was a career military officer - an Army dentist - I lived all over the world. That left me in-between, and exactly where I wanted most to be: on my own. Little brother Jon was the only boy and had interests that he shared with Dad together they were always working on electric trains and erector sets and later, when Jon was older, they always seemed to have their heads under the raised hood of a car. My older sister, Helen, was very much like our mother: gentle, family-oriented, eager to please. "I’ve always felt that I was fortunate to have been born the middle child of three.
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When a young girl, Aya Wright, develops extraordinary abilities and becomes a target of the world's most powerful fader, Eve must protect her. Her first novel is THE CAVENDISH HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS, one of the New York Public Library’s 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing in 2012. Now she is a New York Times bestselling author of darkly magical books. To find her, Eliana joins a rebel captain and discovers that the evil at the empire's heart is more terrible than she ever imagined.Īs Rielle and Eliana fight in a cosmic war that spans millennia, their stories intersect, and the shocking connections between them ultimately determine the fate of their world-and of each other.Ĭlaire Legrand used to be a musician until she realized she couldn’t stop thinking about the stories in her head. A bounty hunter for the Undying Empire, Eliana believes herself untouchable-until her mother vanishes. One thousand years later, the legend of Queen Rielle is a fairy tale to Eliana Ferracora. 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Their many adventures include a virtual-reality equivalent of a high-noon shootout, but loose plotting weakens the tension surrounding most of their escapades, as problems unexpectedly resolve or are simply dropped. Melissa Scott studied history at Harvard College and Brandeis University, and earned her PhD. To save her own job and to clear her ex-lover's name, Cerise must team up with Trouble again. Three years later, Cerise is working for an industrial corporation when someone begins impersonating Trouble on the nets, stealing secrets and leaving viruses behind. Trouble predicts these changes and goes legit. Both women have been wired with the newest technology, a ``brainworm'' that enables them to receive sensations when they're plugged in-a development despised by the older, mostly male heterosexual ``netwalkers.'' When Congress passes the Evans-Tindale bill to outlaw the brainworm, life on the net threatens to become more dangerous. Cerise and Trouble are lesbian lovers who plug into computer networks to steal industrial secrets to sell on the gray market. Scott's talents for creating a future both hauntingly familiar and exotically remote are showcased in this feminist cyberpunk romp. Such creation is the ultimate taboo and punishable by death to both child, creator, those who defend the child and those who know of its existence. Incapable of self-control, and therefore a threat of exposure, immortal children are not to be created.Hunts must be inconspicuous, with victims unlikely to be missed their remains must be disposed of and territory must be changed often.Instead, the laws are passed by word of mouth from vampire to vampire. The laws are not written down to write them would in itself be an infraction. There aren't many of these laws, and they mainly concern the secrecy surrounding the existence of vampires. Throughout the centuries, the Volturi have established and enforced a number of laws that all vampires are expected to obey on pain of death. The coven has existed for over 3000 years, and is the largest coven in existence, followed by the Olympic, the Denali, and the Mexican covens. They often send their agents to travel from Volterra to prevent overzealous covens from exposing vampires through mass eradication of every vampire (and any humans) present. The Volturi act as guardians, keeping the secret society of vampires hidden from the human world as needed. They are also considered 'nighttime patrons of the arts' as, because of their inability to sleep, they study the arts at night. The Volturi act as the unofficial royalty in the world of vampires, and are an incredibly influential coven. 3.5 Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined.3.3.1 The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner. But when Fable finds Saint, the welcome she hoped for, is far from forthcoming. As the prickly crew begins to embrace their newest crewmate, Fable begins to feel, for the first time in forever, that she has found a family. When the predatory gang of divers on Jevali threaten Fable, West and his crew reluctantly agree to take Fable across the Narrows. A scoundrel who happens to be her father. Dredging up precious gems from the tropical waters, she sells them to a trader named West, hoping to someday earn enough coin to get herself off this island and back to the scoundrel named Saint who marooned her. Survival is paramount, and only the strong survive.įor Fable, a young woman stranded on the island of Jevali, her skills as a diver mean the difference between life and death. |