Genre: YA Fantasy
Content/Theme(s): Romance/Mystery
Release Date: February
5, 2014
Publisher: Solstice
Shadows Publishing
Fairy,
Texas. A small town like any other.
Laney Harris didn't want to live there. When her mother remarried and moved
them to a town where a date meant hanging out at the Sonic, Laney figured that
"boring" would have a whole new meaning. A new stepsister who
despised her and a high school where she was the only topic of gossip were bad
enough. But when she met the school counselor (and his terminal bad breath),
she grew suspicious. Especially since he had wings that only she could see. And
then there were Josh and Mason, two gorgeous glimmering-eyed classmates whose
interest in her might not be for the reasons she hoped. Not to mention that
dead guy she nearly tripped over in gym class.
She was right. Boring took on an entirely new dimension in Fairy, Texas.
Fairy High could have fit into one wing of my old school. The
three-story, red brick building looked like it had been around for at least a
century—it actually had carvings over two of the doorways that read “Men’s
Entrance” and “Women’s Entrance.” I was glad to see that none of the kids paid
any attention to those instructions.
“Counselor’s
office,” I muttered to myself. At least I wasn’t starting in the middle of a
term—though given the fact that there were fewer than 500 students in the
entire high school, I didn’t think I was going to be able to go unnoticed, even
in the general bustle of the first day back from summer vacation.
I walked through
the door marked “Men’s Entrance,” just be contrary, and faced a long hallway
lined with heavy wooden doors. The spaces in between the doors were filled with
lockers and marble staircases with ornate hand-rails flanked each end of the
long hallway. Students poured in behind me, calling out greetings to each other
and jostling me off to the side while I tried to get my bearings. None of the
doors obviously led to a main office; I was going to have to walk the entire
length of the hallway. And people were already starting to stare and whisper.
God. I hated
being the new kid.
I took a deep
breath and stepped forward. I made it halfway down the hall without seeing
anything informative—all the doors had numbers over them and many of them had
name plaques, but neither of those things did me any good since I didn’t know
the name or office number for the counselor. I was almost getting desperate
enough to ask Kayla, but of course she was nowhere to be seen.
I turned back
from scanning the halls for her and caught sight of the first adult I’d
seen—and almost screamed. As it was, I gasped loudly enough for a guy walking
past me to do a double take. The man standing in the open doorway was tall,
over six feet, and way skinny—so emaciated that it looked like you ought to be
able to see his ribs through his shirt, if his shirt didn’t hang so loosely on
him. He had white hair that stuck out in tufts, thin lips, a sharp nose, and
pale blue eyes that narrowed as he watched the kids walk past—and all the kids
gave him a wide berth without even seeming to notice that they did so. He stood
in an empty circle while students streamed around him in the crowded hallway.
But none of that
was what made me almost scream.
For a moment,
just as I’d turned toward him, I could have sworn that I’d seen the shadow of
two huge, black, leathery wings stretched out behind him.
Margo Bond Collins is the author of a number of novels, including Waking Up Dead, Fairy, Texas, and Legally Undead (forthcoming in 2014). She lives in Texas with her husband, their daughter, and several spoiled pets. She teaches college-level English courses online, though writing fiction is her first love. She enjoys reading urban fantasy and paranormal fiction of any genre and spends most of her free time daydreaming about vampires, ghosts, zombies, werewolves, and other monsters.
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