Coming Fall 2011 from Greenwillow/Harper Collins

THE GIRL OF FIRE AND THORNS (formerly titled The Princess and the Godstone)

Princess Elisa is an underachiever. Though she bears the Godstone in her navel, a sign she is destined to be a hero, her people see her as lazy and useless and fat.

On her sixteenth birthday, she is rushed into a loveless marriage and shipped away to a kingdom in turmoil, where she learns that maybe she and her Godstone are meant to save the world after all. But how can a teenaged girl who has never played the game of politics or attained the love of a man save the world? Elisa only knows she’s going to try—so long as she doesn’t have to give up pastries.

THE CROWN OF EMBERS Fall 2012

THE BITTER KINGDOM Fall 2013

The Girl of Fire and Thorns (Fire and Thorns, #1)

ratings: 92 (avg rating 5.00)

14-year-old Bethany Petty had a tragic and embarrassing year, thanks to the vertigo that plagues her. When her dad gets a job in Ohio, Beth is desperate for a fresh start.

But her new high school oozes oddness. What’s with the binoculars Mrs. Haas wears around her neck? Why hasn’t Mr. Cruz aged in sixty years? Why does Dr. Scott collect vials of student blood? And what sends Beth’s vertigo into overdrive when she enters the school’s “dungeon” level?

When a classmate disappears, Beth and her new friends, Cameron and Fat Mo, are hot on the trail when they discover something remarkable, something life-changing. For Beth's vertigo masks a very special ability, and it was not by accident that she ended up at this freaktastic school.