I might be a petite, lilac-haired girl who looks like a fragile doll, but they haven't been introduced to my fangs yet. And guess what? Two of the kings run the gangs at the school, their hatred for each other so fierce I hear a day doesn't go by without blood being spilled in the halls. The Lunar Brotherhood and the Oscura Clan. The school itself is divided by the two gangs who run this town. To put it lightly, my town is the asshole of Solaria where the dodgiest Fae in the kingdom reside. Aurora Academy isn't a place for the faint of heart. The trouble is, there's four kings at that school and each of them have motive and cutthroat natures. The King of Aurora Academy killed my brother. When I kicked the ass of a Werewolf who was high on a new and dangerous drug called Killblaze, his final words painted a dark reality for me. And a girl on a mission to destroy one of them for murdering my brother. What do a heartless Dragon Shifter, a cold-blooded Basilisk, an arrogant Lion Shifter and a brooding, tattooed Harpy have in common.? Me.
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This book was amazing!Įverything I seek within a book, this book delivered! Is the first full length book in Tate Jame's 'Madison Kate' series. Her curiosity is sparked, setting off a series of events that will bring her and Alice together and reveal shocking truths about a past long gone. While out walking one day, she stumbles upon the old estate - now crumbling and covered with vines, clearly abandoned long ago. Miles away, Sadie Sparrow, a young detective in the London police force, is staying at her grandfather’s house in Cornwall. Theo’s case has never been solved, though Alice still harbours a suspicion as to the culprit. Nearly 60 years later, having enjoyed a long, successful career as an author, Alice is now 80 years old and living in London. What follows is a tragedy that tears the family apart in ways they never imagined, leaving their estate as empty as their broken hearts. One midsummer’s eve, after a beautiful party drawing hundreds of guests to the estate has ended, the Edevanes discover that their youngest son, Theo, has vanished without a trace. But the mysteries she pens are no match for the one her family is about to endure. Living on her family’s gorgeous lakeside estate in Cornwall, England, Alice Edevane is a bright, clever, inquisitive, innocent, and precociously talented 14 year old who loves to write stories. |