ASH
In the wake of her father’s death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. Consumed with grief, her only joy comes by the light of the dying hearth fire, re-reading the fairy tales her mother once told her. In her dreams, someday the fairies will steal her away, as they are said to do. When she meets the dark and dangerous fairy Sidhean, she believes that her wish may be granted.
The day that Ash meets Kaisa, the King’s Huntress, her heart begins to change. Instead of chasing fairies, Ash learns to hunt with Kaisa. Though their friendship is as delicate as a new bloom, it reawakens Ash’s capacity for love—and her desire to live. But Sidhean has already claimed Ash for his own, and she must make a choice between fairy tale dreams and true love.
Entrancing, empowering, and romantic, Ash is about the connection between life and love, and solitude and death, where transformation can come from even the deepest grief.
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Honors:
- Finalist for the 2010 William C. Morris YA Debut Award
- Nominated for the 2009 Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Finalist for the NCIBA 2010 Book of the Year (Teen Fiction)
- A Kirkus Best Young Adult Book of 2009
- A starred selection of the ALA’s 2010 Rainbow List
- Selected for the 2009 Locus Recommended Reading List
- Selected for the CCBC Choices 2010 list
- Selected for the Autumn ‘09 Kids’ Indie Next List
Ash is published by:
- Little, Brown Books for Young Readers — U.S. and Canada (September 2009)
- Elliot Edizioni — Italy (January 2010)
- Hodder Children’s Books — U.K., Australia, New Zealand (March 2010)
