An ancient spell is what killed their father and she was the one who cast it.

Someone who will come for them next.Ĭristina, once a talented and dedicated practitioner of Generational magic, has given up magic for good. Cursed by someone on the very magic council their family used to rule. Until, by chance, they discover their mother isn’t sick–she’s cursed. On the anniversary of these brutal events, Clement and Cristina Trudeau–the sixteen-year-old twin heirs to the powerful, magical, dethroned family–are mourning their father and caring for their sick mother. In the days that followed, a throne was stolen from a queen. Thirty years ago, a young woman was murdered, a family was lynched, and New Orleans saw the greatest magical massacre in its history. Monsters of all kinds prowl within the London fog–and not all of them are out for blood… He claims to be friends with Henry, and Gabriel can’t help but begin to grow jealous at their apparent closeness, especially as Henry continues to act like Gabriel means nothing to him.īut the secret behind Henry’s apathy is only the first part of a deeper mystery that has begun to coalesce.

In doing so, Gabriel meets Hyde, a a strangely familiar young man with white hair and a magnetic charisma. Desperate to discover what’s become of him, Gabriel takes to watching the Jekyll house. His friend has become distant and cold since the disastrous events of the prior spring, and now his letters have stopped altogether. Whispers about the true nature of Gabriel and Henry’s relationship have followed the boys for two years, and now Gabriel has a chance to start again.īut Gabriel doesn’t want to move on, not without Henry. Gabriel Utterson, a 17-year-old law clerk, has returned to London for the first time since his life– and that of his dearest friend, Henry Jekyll–was derailed by a scandal that led to his and Henry’s expulsion from the London Medical School. Hyde, sixth in the Remixed Classics series. My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix by Kalynn BayronĪ teen boy tries to discover the reason behind his best friend’s disappearance–and the arrival of a mysterious and magnetic stranger–in misty Victorian London, i n Kalynn Bayron’s My Dear Henry, a gothic YA remix of Dr. From gripping contemporaries to thrilling new fantasies, support these upcoming YA books by Black authors today!ġ.

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Sing Me to Sleep by Gabi Burton