Wings
Laurel's life is the very definition of normal...until the morning when she wakes up to discover a flower blooming from her back. As it turns out, nothing in Laurel's life is what it seems. Thrust into the midst of a centuries-old battle between faeries and trolls, she's torn between a human and a faerie love, as well as her loyalties to each world. Now, with the help of an alluring faerie sentry who holds the key to her true past, Laurel must race to save her human family from the centuries-old faerie enemies who walk among them
RT Reviewers' Choice Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Paranormal/Fantasy Novel (2009)
About the Laurel (Wings) Series
Reading age: 13+ years
This series should be read in order.
Aprilynne Pike's #1 New York Times best-selling debut, 'Wings', is the first of four books about a seemingly ordinary girl named Laurel. This beautiful but typical American teenager discovers that she is a faerie, sent among humans to protect the gateway to Avalon. Thrust into the midst of a centuries-old battle between faeries and trolls, she's torn between a human and a faerie love, as well as her loyalties to each world. In this extraordinary tale of magic and intrigue, romance and danger, everything you thought you knew about faeries will be changed forever.