Unpredictable plot, vivid settings, and a queer, dark-skinned black girl as a protagonist in far-future science fiction: essential.“ - Kirkus, starred review … Connections among her personal history, her ancestral history (the real-life Haitian Revolution the science-fictional destruction, centuries ago, of Haiti by floods), and the atrocities she discovers in deep space are meaningful and well-wrought, as is the portrayal of Miyole’s tender and bumpy romance with Cassia. Then life takes a sharp turn: pirates attack a nearby spacecraft, and Miyole meets a girl named Cassia. Onboard, she bioengineers bees and butterflies to pollinate terraformed planets. She’s 16, not the required 18, but she’s always wanted to travel into space and was impatient to leave Mumbai, where she was taunted as 'the darkest” and “the exotic outlier” because she’s Haitian, not Indian. “Miyole forged her papers to work on the Ranganathan, a 128,000-acre research-and-development ship.

But in a high-stakes world where nothing is as it seems, and death lurks in every shadow, love rides shotgun with survival! If that weren’t treacherous enough, Dagger must juggle his life as a secret agent with his social life, where he faces romantic rivalry for the guy of his dreams, a mysterious and handsome new student at his haunted boarding school. However, Dagger’s unresolved conflict over his missing brother could be his undoing, as he races around the world battling the Dark Reich, a diabolical organization on a quest to possess an ancient artifact and unleash a mystical plague to enslave humanity. Dagger by Steven dos Santos (Evernight Teen)īook Description: When Ultimate Evil engulfs the entire world, only Dagger can pierce the Darkness-even if the Apocalypse falls on a school night! Dagger Beaumont is a High School senior who’s been recruited by D.U.S.T.-a covert governmental organization dedicated to battling supernatural terrorism all over the globe.

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