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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.
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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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?
