High school senior by day, intern at the Monarch City police department by night, Mary Elizabeth Heart watches with envy from behind a desk as detectives come and go, trying to contain the city's growing crime rate. The city's wealthy elite plan to gentrify the decaying neighborhood called the Scar, once upon a time the epicenter of all things magic. When the daughter of a powerful businessmen goes missing, Mary Elizabeth is put on the case. But as the missing person's reports multiply, she is led down the rabbit hole of a city in turmoil. There she finds a girl with horns, a boyfriend with secrets, and what seems to be a sea monster lurking in a poison lake. She becomes caught in the fight between those who once had magic, and those who will do anything to bring it back. -- adapted from jacket
Ages 14-18. Disney Hyperion.|||Grades 10-12. Disney Hyperion.|||adolescent
Estelle Laure.
