Listening at the Gate
Simon & Schuster 2006
A Tiptree Award Honor Book
A New York Public Library Best Book for the Teen Age
Can you have what you wish for?
What is the price?
The world seventeen-year-old Kat knows is falling apart. With Nall, the mysterious young man she rescued from the sea, she sets out on a journey that will take them beyond the last boundary of all, to the Gate where the world is born.
“This wondrous and mournful epic…shatters certain key expectations yet remains profoundly archetypal—full of pain, beauty and heft.” —Kirkus Reviews
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Dark Heart
Simon & Schuster 2005
What if initiation into womanhood means you must face an angry bear?
What if you fail?
Sixteen-year-old Kat has spent a year preparing for her initiation. What will she do about the young blind man she is drawn to, so handsome and so broken? And what of Nall, the man she rescued and left behind?
“Finely drawn.” —School Library Journal
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Long Night Dance
Simon & Schuster 2005
A Voice of Youth Advocates Best Fantasy
Fifteen-year-old Kat is more her bitter father’s housekeeper than his daughter—but she knows there must be more. When she finds, washed up on the beach, an injured young man of the mythical seal people, she must confront her choices. Does she have the strength to stand on her own?
“Beautifully written…with a heroine both brave and compassionate.” —The Horn Book
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