This is a beautifully wrought modern fairy tale from master storyteller and award-winning American author Nancy Werlin. Lucy is seventeen when she discovers that she is the latest recipient of a generations-old family curse that requires her to complete three seemingly impossible tasks or risk falling into madness and passing the curse on to the next generation. Unlike her ancestors, though, Lucy has family, friends and love. Is it enough to keep her safe?

 

There are 384 pages in this book. This book was published 2010 by Penguin Books Ltd .

Nancy Werlin is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of The Killer's Cousin , Rules of Survival , Black Mirror , Impossible , and a host of other young adult novels. She lives in Massachusetts.