Cynthia Hand

Hold on to your hats: The authors who brought you the New York Times bestseller My Plain Jane, which Booklist praised as delightfully deadpan (starred review) and Publishers Weekly called a clever, romantic farce (starred review), are back with another irreverent historical adventure. Welcome to 1876 America, a place bursting with gunslingers, outlaws, and garou -- better known as werewolves. And where there are garou, there are hunters: the one and...

You may think you know the story. Penniless orphan Jane Eyre begins a new life as a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she meets one dark, brooding Mr. Rochester?and, Reader, she marries him. Or does she?

Publisher Annotation: Welcome to Renaissance France, a place of poison and plots, of beauties and beasts, of mice and . . . queens? Mary is the queen of Scotland and the jewel of the French court. Except when she’s a mouse. Yes, reader, Mary is an Eðian (shapeshifter) in a kingdom where Verities rule. It’s a secret that could cost her a head—or a tail. Luckily, Mary has a confidant in her betrothed, Francis. But things at the gilded court...

Cassandra McMurtrey has the best parents a girl could ask for; they?ve given Cass a life she wouldn?t trade for the world. She has everything she needs?but she has questions, too. Like, to know who she is. Where she came from. Questions her adoptive parents can?t answer, no matter how much they love her. But eighteen years ago, someone wrote Cass a series of letters. And they may just hold the answers Cass has been searching for. Alternating between...

Publisher Annotation: Ada?s life is a mess. She just caught her boyfriend cheating on her after a humiliating attempt at losing her virginity, and she?s had it up to here with her gorgeous older sister?s unsolicited advice. But things really hit the fan during a family vacation in Hawaii, where Ada discovers her own mother is having an affair. Apparently, everyone is falling into bed with people they shouldn?t. Everyone except Ada. But when Ada decides...

Publisher Annotation: On Christmas Eve five years ago, seventeen-year-old Holly Chase was visited by three Ghosts who showed her how selfish and spoiled she?d become. They tried to convince her to mend her ways. She didn?t. And then she died. Now she?s stuck working for the top-secret company Project Scrooge?as their latest Ghost of Christmas Past. So far, Holly?s afterlife has been miserable. But this year?s Scrooge is different. This year?s Scrooge...

For months Clara Gardner trained to face the fire from her visions, but she wasn't prepared for the choice she had to make that day. And in the aftermath, she discovered that nothing about being part angel is as straightforward as she thought. Now, torn between her love for Tucker and her complicated feelings about the roles she and Christian seem destined to play in a world that is both dangerous and beautiful, Clara struggles with a shocking...