Lacie

This is a book flap for a nonexistent book, mocking the rash of vampire/supernatural books that have flooded teen fiction.

Lacie Mill had a normal life.

She had good grades, good friends, and her share of normal teenage troubles. But that was all before her grandmother died out of the blue from old age.

Following the funeral, her aunt and uncle ship her off to some out-of-state, obscure gothic boarding school, complete with wrought iron fences and a German name. There’s definitely something strange about this boarding school, something other than the group of extremely beautiful, oddly vindictive elite, (half of whom are inexplicably out to recruit Lacie) and the normal people who are suddenly losers in comparison. Something other than the overly helpful head mistress. But there’s this unspoken rule that no one is allowed to speak of it, except in cryptic discussions in dark, unused passages that in themselves demand further exploration.

It’s here that she meets the gorgeous, darkly alluring boy with a foreign sounding name who periodically appears in the midst of bizarre happenings with a protective air and a charming, flirtatious smile, all the while issuing mysterious warnings that hint at his own dangerous secrets.

The situation has all the hallmarks of a suspenseful, supernatural romance. There’s only one problem.

She’s not interested.

Lacie is a mockingly humorous tale of growing up, fitting in, sticking out, and just being yourself that often not-so-gently pokes fun at today’s rash of formulaic, factory-made YA books of the supernatural.