She knows she can’t totally depend on Jack. Even though he once scorned her and everything she represented, he agrees to protect Evie on her quest. With his mile-long rap sheet, wicked grin, and bad attitude, Jack is like no boy Evie has ever known.
Fighting for her life and desperate for answers, she must turn to her wrong-side-of-the-bayou classmate: Jack Deveaux. When an apocalyptic event decimates her Louisiana hometown, Evie realizes her hallucinations were actually visions of the future-and they’re still happening.
Sixteen year old Evangeline “Evie” Greene leads a charmed life, until she begins experiencing horrifying hallucinations. #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole introduces The Arcana Chronicles, post-apocalyptic tales filled with riveting action, the dark mysticism of Tarot cards, and breathtaking romance. Genres: Action & Adventure, Legends, Myths, Fables, Love & Romance, Paranormal, Young Adult Add this to collections for listeners who like action, multilayered narrative, and fantasy's somber side.-Barbara Wysocki, Cora J.Published by Simon and Schuster on October 2nd 2012 Narrators Emma Galvin and Keith Hobbs enhance this first-person story with an intense mix of the sinister, conflicted, and sensual internal feelings expressed by Evie and Arthur. Finally, recognizing her own destiny, in a brutal climax Evie brings her powers as Poison Princess. She ends up recounting her journey to Arthur, a despotic, would-be alchemist, who lures Evie into his lair where he enslaves teen girls to test his often-fatal potions. Following an argument with Jackson, Evie sets out on her own. Along the way they meet other teens discovering their own tarot card character powers and together they fight off the desperate remnants of society left in lawless America. One of the few females to survive, she joins forces with tough boy classmate Jackson Deveaux to find her grandmother in North Carolina, believing that she can interpret the meaning of Evie's visions. The first title in the series is centered on Evie Greene, a wealthy 16-year-old from Louisiana who had just returned from a summer stay in a mental health clinic before the Flash, an earth-scorching cataclysm. Gr 9 Up-Apocalypse meets tarot card-inspired fantasy in Cole's occasionally bloody, sometimes romantic novel (S & S, 2012).
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