Elizabeth May
One girl's nightmare is this girl's faery tale,She's a stunner.,Edinburgh, 1844. Eighteen-year-old Lady Aileana Kameron, the only daughter of the Marquess of Douglas, has everything a girl could dream of: brains, charm, wealth, a titleâ€”and drop-dead beauty.,She's a liar.,But Aileana only ,looks, the part of an aristocratic young lady. she's leading a double life: She has a rare ability to sense the ,sÃ¬thÃ­chean,â€”the faery race obsessed with slaughtering humansâ€”and, with the aid of a mysterious mentor, has spent the year since her mother died learning how to kill them.,She's a murderer.,Now Aileana is dedicated to slaying the fae before they take innocent lives. With her knack for inventing ingenious tools and weaponsâ€”from flying machines to detonators to lightning pistolsâ€”ruthless Aileana has one goal: Destroy the faery who destroyed her mother.,She's a Falconer.,The last in a line of female warriors born with a gift for hunting and killing the fae, Aileana is the sole hope of preventing a powerful faery population from massacring all of humanity. Suddenly, her quest is a lot more complicated. She still longs to avenge her mother's murderâ€”but she'll have to save the world first.,The first volume of a trilogy from an exciting new voice in young adult fantasy, this electrifying thriller combines romance and action, steampunk technology and Scottish lore in a deliciously addictive read.
Fantasy,Young Adult,Science Fiction,Steampunk,Historical,Historical Fiction,Historical,Fantasy,Paranormal,Romance,Fairies,Fae,Young Adult,Young Adult Fantasy,Fiction
The Falconer