He wanted to know something about me. I leaned over and put my mouth to his ear. It was barely a whisper, "I'm a murderer." -Ruta Sepetys

Emily Weatherly was no gently-bred London debutante. In fact, she had thrived on the streets of London, a pickpocket and urchin, until Fate threw her lot in with the Weatherly's, a prestigious family who unselfishly raised her as their own and protect her from a heinous secret that could destroy her life. Despite this, she is never truly accepted as a proper lady, always scorned and ridiculed, and she vows to do her adopted family proud by making a respectable match with a gentleman of some rank and notoriety. Sebastian Weatherly harbors a secret that could thwart his carefully constructed bachelorhood. Indiscriminate rake, scoundrel and downright rogue, he has had to endure Emily Weatherly's presence for as long as he could remember. Now that she intends to make a respectable match, which he knows cannot ever be him as he is not respectable, he can hardly ignore the bitter jealousy residing in his heart as he is forced to watch Emily courted by various beaus.

Everything is tied by… B L O O D Nina is an ordinary girl who sees the world in an extraordinary way. She’s crazy, as crazy as they come, and beautiful… sinfully so. Upon moving to New-Ether, a city where everything is possible- and even more- she finds out just how strange the world is, and just how everything she believed in is a fragile illusion. She finds out there is far more to this world than she knew… and far more to herself than she dared imagine. She discovers how powerful blood can be… and just what people are ready to do for that power.