Moonglow
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- $3.99
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Publisher Description
From the author of the acclaimed Archangel Academy vampire trilogy comes a stunning new series about a girl determined to defy her fate--and reclaim her future. . .
Something strange is going on with Dominy Robineau. All her friends in Weeping Water, Nebraska, have noticed--and it's way beyond teenage blues. As weeks pass, Dom grows consumed by anger, aggression, and violence, and she seems powerless to stop it. Then she turns sixteen, and things get really dangerous.
When her best friend is murdered, Dominy's father is compelled to reveal the truth behind the darkness that threatens to both overtake and empower her. Her boyfriend, Caleb, swears they'll find a way to change her destiny. But others are hiding secrets too, and gifts that are far more terrifying than hers. And even as she struggles to control her new abilities, Dom must contend with an enemy who wants her to use the beast within to destroy all those she loves, before she destroys herself. . .
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Dominy Robineau, 16, wakes up next to her best friend's corpse, blood under her own fingernails, remembering a full Nebraska moon overhead. Responsibility appears inescapable, but Dominy can't piece together what happened. She's been angry at Jess for a long time without understanding why, and at crucial moments her memory goes cloudy and strange. Dominy's life as a high school princess has been heading downhill for a while, and her father's unusual behavior isn't helping. Moonlight both soothes and terrifies Dominy, and that puzzles her, too. The story unfolds slowly in set pieces of dialogue and character analysis, situating Dominy in an odd context, replete with a gay albino wide receiver, an exotic French mother in a coma, and unexpected outbreaks of "guh-ross" body hair. This is horror, not humor, but the line Griffo (the Archangel Academy series) treads is occasionally very fine. Where it ends is unclear: although Dominy figures out what is wrong, there is still no solution in sight as this first book in the Darkborn Legacy series draws to a close. Ages 14 up.
