Valiant: A Modern Faerie Tale

Book 2: Modern Faerie Tale

by Holly Black

Genres: YA Fantasy

Synopsis

A companion novel to Tithe, from bestselling author Holly Black!

When seventeen-year-old Valerie runs away to New York City, she's trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city's labyrinthine subway system.

But there's something eerily beguiling about Val's new friends. And when one talks Val into tracking down the lair of a mysterious creature with whom they are all involved, Val finds herself torn between her newfound affection for an honorable monster and her fear of what her new friends are becoming.

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Release date: May 1, 2006

Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books

Print pages: 320