Laura Pohl

At Grimrose Académie, the fairy-tale deaths continue. And unless the curse is broken, one of the girls could be next. Nani, Yuki, Ella, and Rory have discovered the truth about the curse that's left a trail of dead bodies at Grimrose. But the four still know nothing of its origins, or how to stop the cycle of doomed fates. And each girl harbors her own secret. One is learning why she was brought to the school. One struggles to keep her new and deadly power under control. One knows exactly how much time she has left. And one, trying to escape her dark destiny, will come even closer to fulfilling it. Can the girls change their own stories and break the curse? Or must one of them die to end it forever?

The Wicked Remain

Kimmy Hobden

Rory had texted Pippa because it was the only number she knew, the only number she'd clicked on her phone more than a hundred times. It was seared into the back of her eyes. She could recite it in her sleep, knocked unconscious, her lips forming the numbers that led her to the other end, that led her to Pippa.

Rory, opposite Nani, was wearing combat boots, ripped black jeans, a backwards black hat, and a pink sweatshirt with the words WOMEN WANT ME, FISH FEAR ME.

“Maybe when I leave there’ll even be a day when I don’t hear her voice in my head before I hear mine.” 

Rage at the injustice of it all, at how much was asked of her every single day, at how much had been taken from her without her consent.

She didn’t know what she wanted. That had always been the problem...Then she wanted comfort, which she found in books because her family had been too hard. And then the books had offered her adventures and a place where she wanted to belong, a place that was real and true, and where Nani could find her home. 

And even that wish seemed too unattainable.

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