Nightstruck #1
Tor Teen
April 2016
On Sale: April 5, 2016
Featuring: Becket
303 pages ISBN: 0765380048 EAN: 9780765380043 Kindle: B010M278AU Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
The start of a spooky yet romantic dark paranormal horror
series from GLIMMERGLASS author Jenna Black.
The night is the enemy, and the city of Philadelphia is its
deadliest weapon.
Becket is an ordinary teenage girl, wrestling with the
upheaval of her parents' divorce. A studious high school
senior, her biggest problems to date have been choosing
which colleges to apply to, living up to her parents'
ambitious expectations for her, and fighting her secret
crush on her best friend's boyfriend. But that all changes
on the night she tries to save an innocent life and
everything goes horribly wrong.
Unbeknownst to her, Becket has been tricked into opening a
door between worlds, allowing a dark magic into the mortal
world. As the magic trickles in, the city begins to change
at night. Strange creatures roam the streets, and inanimate
objects come to life, all of them bloodthirsty and
terrifying. The city returns to normal when the sun rises in
the morning, and no one can capture the strange
changes--such as potholes turning into toothy mouths and
wires turning into strangling vines--on film, which prompts
the government to declare that the city has been infected
with some kind of madness and must be quarantined.
Meanwhile, venturing out of one's house at night has become
a dangerous proposition, and the moment the sun sets, most
of the citizens of the city shut themselves up in their
houses and stay there even in the case of dire emergencies.
The magic is openly hostile to most mortals, but there are
some individuals it seems to covet, trying to lure them out
into the night. While Becket struggles to protect her
friends and family from predatory creatures of the night,
she is constantly tempted to shrug off all her
responsibilities and join them. Joining the night world
means being free of not just responsibility, but conscience,
and it means no longer caring about the fate of others.
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