The Rose Diaries Book 2 \ by Natalia La Fey

Rose Montgomery - Diaz was never a conventional girl. To begin with she lived in a converted Victorian theatre. She liked to wear costume pieces salvaged from wax dummies that could be found under the Theatre stage, and she knew that Faeries existed. What is the mystery illness striking young girls in town? In this book of "the Roe Diaries" Rose is the only one who knows. Her binding with Kallan, the King of the Unseelie Court, whom she saved from imprisonment has given Rose faerie sight and gives her the ability to see that the ill girls are actually changelings, objects made to look like girls through the use of faerie magic. The real girls of the town are being kidnapped by Argate, Queen of the Seelie Court. It is up to Rose and her friends, Thomas Parish and Owen Finch, with the help of Phooka, her guardian, to find the girls and rescue them. Little do they know that Argate is trying to trap Rose who resembles Arathusa, Argate’s sister whose ill-fated love for Kallan resulted in her death. Rose must learn to control her powers under the instruction of Kallan, and, in doing so, understand her dual nature - is she human or faerie? There is the added complication of her resemblance to Arathusa and the tension this creates in the relationship with Kallan, as one part of her begins to have feelings for him while another part of continues to have feelings for Thomas. The mysterious antique store owner Mr. Deitrich has a grand scheme of his own, to open the passage to Avalon, he gives Rose a picture of her long lost aunt causing a rift between her and her grandfather, why would he lie to her? The final challenge is to outwit the Keeper who is holding the town girls until Beltane’s eve when they will become part of the Seelie court forever. Only by solving his riddle will the girls be set free.