The Iron Witch by Karen Mahoney

The Iron Witch (The Iron Witch Trilogy, #1)

by Karen Mahoney

Freak.

That's what they call seventeen-year-old Donna Underwood at Ironbridge High School. A horrific fey attack that killed her father when she was just a child left Donna branded with iron tattoos that cover her hands and arms - and magically enhanced strength, that she now does all she can to hide.

Now, after ten years of wishing for a normal life, Donna finally accepts her role in the centuries-old war against the darkest outcasts of Faerie - the dark elves. Aided by Xan, a gorgeous half-fey dropout, Donna must save her best friend's life - and that means betraying one of the world's greatest secrets and confronting the very thing that destroyed her family.

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Donna hides her arms under gloves to hide the iron and silver tattoos that gave her back the use of those arms after a faerie creature damaged them when she was young. The same incident where her father died. Her mother is suffering from a mysterious ailment that resembles a mental illness and she lives with her aunt.

Her best friend is Navin who brings her to a party which leads to her meeting with Xan, who it turns out is part-fey.

When faerie kidnap Navin, it's up to her to save him. What she does will have large implications in her life.

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