Jackie's Raving About This New Series

Ari can’t help feeling lost and alone. With teal eyes and freakish silver hair that can’t be changed or destroyed, Ari has always stood out. And after growing up in foster care, she longs for some understanding of where she came from and who she is.

Her search for answers uncovers just one message from her long dead mother: Run. Ari can sense that someone, or something, is getting closer than they should. But it’s impossible to protect herself when she doesn’t know what she’s running from or why she is being pursued.

She knows only one thing: she must return to her birthplace of New 2, the lush rebuilt city of New Orleans. Upon arriving, she discovers that New 2 is very...different. Here, Ari is seemingly normal. But every creature she encounters, no matter how deadly or horrifying, is afraid of her.

Ari won’t stop until she knows why. But some truths are too haunting, too terrifying, to ever be revealed.

Jackie says:
"I'm a sucker for a new twist on the paranormal fiction front, and this book really delivers it. This takes place in the near future, in a very different version of New Orleans--now called New 2. It has become it's own separate entity, bought from the U.S. by nine old families of the area who are collectively called The Novem.

Ari, a 17 year old foster child and a working bounty hunter, is searching for her past--for why her mother abandoned her at the age of 4, for who her father is, for any sign of a family of her own. Her search leads her to New 2 and into the strangeness that lives and breathes in the city. It's rumored to be the haven of paranormals of all sorts, but the exotic nature of the place is far greater than anything Ari had ever imagined. Something has been waiting for her to return to New 2, her birthplace, and Ari finds herself hunted by mysterious and powerful warriors, and protected (or used?) by the mysterious Novem. All manor of paranormals come out to make the their stand, for or against, this strange teenager with her silver hair and her teal eyes whose as yet unknown power could save, or damn, them all.

This is a planned series, and believe me when I say I will be first in line for volume 2. I read this first book in one setting, not able to pry myself away from the pulse pounding action and the ever growing mystery of just who, or what, Ari is. Once you enter New 2, it is very, very difficult to leave. "