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Ascendant

The hunt continues…

Astrid Llewelyn is now a fully-trained unicorn hunter, but she’s learning she can’t solve all her problems with just a bow and arrow. Her boyfriend Giovanni has decided to leave Rome, the Cloisters is in dire financial straits, her best friend’s powers seem to be mysteriously disintegrating, and Astrid fears that school, home, and her hopes of becoming a scientist are nothing but impossible dreams.

So when she’s given the opportunity to leave the Cloisters and put her skills to use as part of a scientific quest to discover The Remedy, Astrid leaps at the chance. Finally, she can have exactly what she wants…or can she? At the Gordian Pharmaceuticals headquarters deep in the French countryside, Astrid begins to question everything she thought she believed: her love for Giovanni, her loyalty to the Cloisters, and – most of all – her duty as a hunter. Should Astrid be saving the world from killer unicorns, or saving the unicorns from the world?

Reviewer: ReaderGirl
Review: Sep 10, 2010
Genre(s): YA / Teen, Sci-Fi / Fantasy, Paranormal / Supernatural
Astrid is an unicorn hunter, hunting unicorns that, unlike most typified in stories, are dangerous, wild, blood-thirsty creatures. After someone important to her leaves, Astrid decides to go work at an unicorn research facility in France where she meets someone very unexpected, her ex-boyfriend. What more could she ask for, helping learn more about unicorns, studying for college, that is, until she is asked t

Rites of Spring (Break)

From “witty and endearing” to “impossible to put down,” the critics have given elite marks to Diana Peterfreund’s Secret Society Girl and Under the Rose. Now, in a wildly captivating new novel, Amy “Bugaboo” Haskel and her fellow Rose & Grave knights are trading cold, gray, hyperintellectual New Haven for an annual rite of spring (well, early March) in Florida. For Amy, a week of R&R on her secret society’s private island should be all fun in the sun—and an escape from an on-campus feud with a rival society that’s turned disturbingly personal. But along with her SPF 30 and a bikini, Amy is bringing a suitcase full of issues to remote Cavador Key. Graduation from Eli University looms, not to mention buckets of unfinished business with a former flame and—most pressing of all—the sudden, startling transformation of a mysterious Rose & Grave patriarch from sheerly evil to utterly…appealing? Just when Amy thinks Spring Break can’t get any less relaxing, a wacky “accident” puts everyone on edge. And that’s only the beginning, as Amy starts to suspect that someone has infiltrated the island. With some major Rose & Grave secrets to be exposed, and the potential fallout enough to take down one of America’s most loathsome figureheads, what she can’t know is that the party crasher is deadly serious about making sure “Bugaboo” doesn’t get back to Eli alive…. About the Author Diana Peterfreund graduated from Yale University in 2001 with degrees in geology and literature. A former food critic, she now resides in Washington, D.C. Her previous two novels, Secret Society Girl and Under the Rose, are available now from Delta.

Reviewer: Terri
Review: Jun 11, 2008
Genre(s): YA / Teen
Amy Haskel is a senior at Eli University. She's not sure what she's going to do when she gets out but that isn't really worrying her. Amy is a member of a secret society where she is known as Bugaboo. This society is kind of like a sorority or fraternity but is much more top secret. The society Amy belongs to is Rose and Grave. Their rival is the Dragon's Head. Anyway, Amy was tapped to join at the begi

Under the Rose

Amy Haskel made it into elite Eli University. Then she made it into the ultraselective Order of Rose & Grave. Now a senior, Amy is looking her future squarely in the eye-until someone starts selling society secrets. When a series of bizarre messages suggests conspiracy within the ranks and a female knight mysteriously disappears, no member of Rose & Grave is safe.or above suspicion.

On her side, Amy has a few loyal Diggirls-her fellow female Rose & Grave knights. Against her? Certainly it's a group of Rose & Grave's berpowerful patriarchs who want their old boys' club back. As new developments in her love life threaten to implode, and the case of the vanished Diggirl gets weirder by the moment, Amy will need to use every society trick she's ever learned in order to set things right. Even if it means turning to old adversaries for help-or discovering that the real foes are closer than she'd thought..

Reviewer: Danni
Review: Aug 21, 2007
Genre(s): Historical Romance
Under the Rose is the sequel to Diana Peterfreund's 2006 release Secret Society Girl. Having adored SSG, I was anxious to get started on Under the Rose. I was not disappointed. Under the Rose pulled me in from page one and I finished this book in less than a day. This is Amy Haskel's senior year at Eli University. Amy returns after standing up to the trustees of the Rose and Grave who didn't want women inc

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