Josephine Angelini

When shy sixteen-year-old Helen Hamilton starts having vivid dreams about three ancient, hideous women and suddenly tries to kill a new student at her Nantucket high school, she discovers that she is playing out some version of an old tale involving Helen of Troy, the Three Furies, and a mythic battle.

While summering in her grandparents' small Oregon town, where a serial murderer lurks, eighteen-year-old Magdalena faces recovery from a scandal at her Manhattan private school, schizophrenia, and falling in love with "Wildboy." Told partly through journal entries.

In her hometown of Salem Lily Proctor endures not only life-threatening allergies but humiliation at her first high school party with her best friend and longtime crush, Tristan. But in a different Salem -- one overrun with horrifying creatures and ruled by powerful women called Crucibles, she is Lillian, the strongest and cruelest Crucible ... Lily's other self in an alternate universe that Lily suddenly finds herself where she is torn between responsibilities...

What game is she playing? Rowan hadn't seen Lillian in over a year-not since she broke his heart and killed his father in one fell swoop-so why would she pick today to just show up outside his favorite coffee shop, dressed in outlandish clothes and pretending she doesn't recognize him. Is she turning to Tristan now in some pathetic effort to drive them apart? Why insist her name is Lily? And, where is her Willstone? Her wild claims of being from...

Liebe schmerzt. Welten kollidieren. Feuer tötet. Feuerrote Locken, unglücklich verliebt und so ziemlich gegen alles allergisch, was es gibt: Lily Proctor ist 17 und die Außenseiterin an der Highschool von Salem. Lily wünscht sich nichts mehr, als von hier zu verschwinden - und findet sich in einem furchterregenden anderen Salem wieder, in dem mächtige Frauen herrschen. Die stärkste und grausamste dieser "Crucible" ist Lillian - und Lily wie...