St. Martin's Griffin
September 2013
On Sale: September 17, 2013
272 pages ISBN: 1250036291 EAN: 9781250036292 Kindle: 1379096305 Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
The Elementals is on one level an intriguing coming-of-age
novel about a young woman, Ariel Silverman, facing the
challenges of her first years away at college in Berkeley,
California, while her mother battles cancer at home in Los
Angeles. But the book takes on deeper, stranger meanings
when we realize that Ariel is haunted by the disappearance
of her best friend, Jeni, who vanished without a trace a few
years before, closing Ariel's heart and changing her
forever. Ariel wonders if she will ever be fully alive,
until she meets three mysterious, beautiful and seductive
young people living in a strange old house in the Berkeley
hills. Through them Ariel will unravel the mystery of her
best friend's disappearance and face a chilling choice.