A fierce and subtle poison

Fantasy. Romance. Thriller. Young Adult Fiction. HTML:Legends collide with reality when a boy is swept into the magical, dangerous world of a girl filled with poison. Everyone knows the legends about the cursed girl�Isabel, the one the se�oras whisper about. They say she has green skin and grass for hair, and she feeds on the poisonous plants that fill her family�s lush Caribbean island garden. Some say she can grant wishes; some say her touch can kill. Seventeen-year-old Lucas spends summers with his hotel-developer father in Puerto Rico, and he�s grown up hearing the stories. When letters from the cursed girl mysteriously appear in his room the same day his girlfriend disappears, Lucas turns to Isabel for answers�and finds himself lured into her strange and enchanted world. But the more entangled Lucas becomes with Isabel, the less certain he is of escaping with his own life. �A breathtaking story in which myths come to frightening life and buried wishes might actually come true.� �Nova Ren Suma, author of The Walls Around Us and Imaginary Girls     �Samantha Mabry�s magical debut is both a chilling mystery and a heartbreaking meditation on love, longing, and sacrifice . . . A Fierce and Subtle Poison will get into your blood.� �Laura Ruby,  author of Bone Gap     �With its sparklingly sinister blend of natural history and magic, of themes that seem both modern and timeless, A Fierce and Subtle Poison gets under the skin.��Chicago Tribune  .… (more)