She does an excellent job of creating and sustaining a mood of fear, hopelessness, and misery throughout the novel, something that is lightened only occasionally by Mackie's dry humor and the easy charm of his friend Roswell. Yovanoff's innovative plot draws on the changeling legends from Western European folklore. To learn more about Brenna and her books, visit her online at. She has an MFA in creative The Space Between (9781595144836): Brenna Yovanoff: Books. Meanwhile, he and his friends plot to rescue Tate's stolen sister from the Lady. Brenna Yovanoff is the New York Times bestselling author of The Replacement, The Space Between, Paper Valentine, and Fiendish. Brenna Yovanoff’s debut novel, The Replacement, was an instant New York Times bestseller. Mackie agrees to help the Morrigan maintain the unwitting townspeople's goodwill in exchange for a drug he needs to survive. When a classmate's baby sister is abducted and a Replacement left in her place, Mackie is reluctantly drawn into the age-old rift between the Morrigan and the Lady, sisters who lead the two changeling clans who live underneath Gentry.

Mackie's struggles to go unnoticed are made more difficult by his severe allergies to iron and other metal, his inability to set foot on consecrated ground such as his minister father's church, and his tendency to become severely ill around blood. In their town of Gentry, there is an unspoken acknowledgment that a child is stolen every seven years in an uneasy bargain for the town's prosperity. In this grim debut novel, the Doyles hide the terrible secret that 16-year-old Mackie is a changeling who was swapped for their real son when he was a baby.

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