New Releases by Elizabeth Fama

Divided by day and night and on the run from authorities, star-crossed young lovers unearth a sinister conspiracy in this compelling romantic thriller. Seventeen-year-old Soleil Le Coeur is a Smudge—a night dweller prohibited by law from going out during the day. When she fakes an injury in order to get access to and kidnap her newborn niece—a day dweller, or Ray—she sets in motion a fast-paced adventure that will bring her into conflict with the powerful lawmakers who order her world, and draw her together with the boy she was destined to fall in love with, but who is also a Ray. Set in a vivid alternate reality and peopled with complex, deeply human characters on both sides of the day-night divide, Elizabeth Fama''s Plus One is a brilliantly imagined drama of individual liberty and civil rights, and a fast-paced romantic adventure story.

Because of a quirk of history during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, present-day America is rigidly divided between people who live and work during the hours of darkness—Smudges—and those known as Rays, who populate the day. A group of Smudges called the Noma live on the fringes of society in loose tribes, preying on Smudges and Rays alike. Gigi is a ruthless Noma, but in this prequel companion story to Plus One, she is ordered to abduct a cell phone hacker named Ciel Le Coeur and reveals a surprisingly tender heart. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

In alternating chapters, this story tells of the mermaid Syrenka''s love for Ezra in 1872 that leads to a series of horrific murders, and present-day Hester''s encounter with a ghost that reveals her connection to the murders and to Syrenka.

From the Falmouth Historical Society Collection Cited as the only extant firsthand record of a mermaid encounter in New England waters, this deathbed letter from a great-grandfather to his great-grandson is more likely an instructive fiction--a parable of regret. Supposedly corroborating the mermaid story, a ship''s log (in the collections of the Provincetown Historical Museum) of the schooner Hannah, which plucked Mr. Stanton from South Weepecket in 1788, indicates that the crew saw two figures on the island prior to his rescue, but failed to locate a second victim. However, regarding accuracy and reliability, this is the same crew, under Captain John Merriweather, that reported sightings of a ghost ship and not one, but two sea monsters. ~~James S. Rucker, Archivist, Family Collections, Falmouth Historical Society, 1924 At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Macmillan FIERCE READS Fall 2012 Chapter Sampler includes chapter excerpts from Crewel, Monstrous Beauty, Necromancing the Stone, The Shadow Society, Outpost, and Promised — available for free — check out the Fierce Reads website for more information about these much anticipated new YA reads.

1872: Die schöne Sirene Syrenka verliebt sich in den jungen Naturwissenschaftlicher Ezra und folgt ihm an Land. Doch diese Entscheidung, aus Liebe getroffen, zieht ungeahnte und tödliche Konsequenzen nach sich. 140 Jahre später trifft die 17jährige Halbwaise Hester am Strand einen mysteriösen Fremden und fühlt sich unwiderstehlich zu ihm hingezogen. Je näher sie ihm jedoch kommt, desto mehr traurige Geheimnisse ihrer Familie werden ans Land gespült. Ist etwa ein Fluch schuld daran, dass jede Frau ihrer Familie drei Tage nach der Geburt ihrer ersten Tochter stirbt? Die Antworten warten auf dem Friedhof, der Krypta und auf dem Grund des Meeres auf das junge Mädchen. Dunkle Mächte lassen jedoch nichts unversucht, um Hesters Verbindung zu Syrenka und der furchtbaren Tragödie, die vor so vielen Jahren geschah, im Dunkel der Tiefe verborgen zu halten.

Escaping from a sinking ferry in the waters off Sumatra, fourteen-year-old Emily fights for survival for herself and a young Indonesian boy, who draws courage from his quiet but firm Islamic faith.