"With a crisp, engaging voice and sharp wit, Adrienne Kress is always a treat to read." -Kelley Armstrong, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author "A refreshingly different take on angel mythology with a funny, gutsy, shotgun-toting heroine and a rivetingly sexy hero. Set in an eerie deep south town, OUTCAST is a spooky, spirited, compulsively readable story-charged with wit, wisdom, and bittersweet romance." -Lesley Livingston, author of the internationally bestselling Wondrous Strange series They come out of the sky and take you. Everyone knows that. After six years of "angels" coming out of the sky and taking people from her town, 16-year-old Riley Carver has just about had it living with the constant fear. When one decides to terrorize her in her own backyard, it's the final straw. She takes her mother's shotgun and shoots the thing. So it's dead. Or ... not? In place of the creature she shot, is a guy. A really hot guy. A really hot alive and breathing guy. Oh, and he's totally naked. Not sure what to do, she drags his unconscious body to the tool shed and ties him up. After all, he's an angel and they have tricks. When he regains consciousness she's all set to interrogate him about why the angels come to her town, and how to get back her best friend (and almost boyfriend) Chris, who was taken the year before. But it turns out the naked guy in her shed is just as confused about everything as she is. He thinks it's 1956. Set in the deep south, OUTCAST is a story of love, trust, and coming of age. It's also a story about the supernatural, a girl with a strange sense of humor who's got wicked aim, a greaser from the 50's, and an army of misfits coming together for one purpose: To kick some serious angel ass.

 

This book has been graded for interest at 12+ years.

There are 326 pages in this book. This book was published 2013 by Diversion Books .

Adrienne Kress is a Toronto-born actor and writer. Her books include the award-winning and internationally published novels Alex and the Ironic Gentleman , Timothy and the Dragon's Gate , and Hatter Madigan: Ghost in the H. A. T. B. O. X. (with bestselling author Frank Beddor), as well as Steampunk novel The Friday Society and the gothic Outcast . She is also the author of the quirky three-book series The Explorers . Adrienne's first foray into writing horror came with her work on the Bendy and the Ink Machine novels, but as an actor she has had the pleasure of being creepy in such horror films as Devil's Mile and Wolves . And she took great pleasure in getting to haunt teenagers in SyFy's Neverknock .