A bold and ghostly stand-alone from New York Times bestselling author Colleen Houck, with all the moodiness of Sleepy Hollow and all the romance her fans love.
Welcome to a world where nightmarish creatures reign supreme.
Five hundred years ago, Jack made a deal with the devil. It's difficult for him to remember much about his mortal days. So he focuses on fulfilling his sentence as a Lantern--one of the watchmen who guard the portals to the Otherworld, a realm crawling with every nightmarish creature imaginable. Jack has spent centuries jumping from town to town, ensuring that nary a mortal--or not-so-mortal--soul slips past him. That is, until he meets beautiful Ember O'Dare.
Seventeen, stubborn, and a natural-born witch, Ember feels a strong pull to the Otherworld. Undeterred by Jack's warnings, she crosses into the forbidden plane with the help of a mysterious and debonair vampire--and the chase through a dazzling, dangerous world is on. Jack must do everything in his power to get Ember back where she belongs before both the earthly and unearthly worlds descend into chaos.
Colleen Houck, the New York Times bestselling author of the Tigers Curse series and Reawakened series, breathes new life into classic folklore in this wild, twisting adventure propelled by the spirit of Halloween.
"[Houck] offers a fresh spin on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow...with some genuine surprises in store."--Kirkus
"A wild and seductive adventure...a must-have for YA collections."--SLJ
I totally loved this story the descriptions of the various steampunk items in the otherworld was done so perfectly that i could picture them clearly. I did feel that at first Ember did not fit with the idea of a 17 year old more like a 13 or 14 year old but by the time she gets done in the otherworld she comes into her own. I really was routing for jack to be with ember and i like the fact that this not just a story about a witch in love with a lantern. This is also a story about a world on a brink of failing, a love story between vampires, werewolves and witches, a story about magic and heartache. I think colleen wove a fantastical tale based on a story we all know and love. Her spin on it was a delight to read.
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