Part of Darkness
First published 2013
Ember Brycin comes home to find her mother dead. That loss cracks something open in her, and soon she is seeing creatures that have no business existing outside of old folktales. Strange things keep happening in her orbit, including fires she cannot explain, and the latest blaze destroys a school and lands her in a facility for troubled youth in Olympia, Washington. She arrives there already an outcast, already half-convinced she is losing her mind. Then she meets Eli Dragen. He runs with a notorious biker gang, carries himself like someone who knows exactly how dangerous he is, and he looks at Ember like he recognizes her. The pull between them is immediate and combustible. But Eli carries secrets, and those secrets point toward a world that has been operating just out of sight her entire life. Ember starts to understand that the creatures she has been seeing are real, that something in the dark has marked her, and that the question is no longer whether she is sane. The question is whether she will survive what comes next.
Genres: fantasy, supernatural, thriller, young-adult, dark-fantasy, paranormal-romance
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, emotionally-charged, intense, suspenseful
Tropes: chosen-one, dangerous-attraction, enemies-to-lovers, hidden-identity, love-at-first-sight
Setting: Olympia, Washington
378 pages · Paperback · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Content warnings: death, mental-illness, violence