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New Girl. New School. Old Evil. From the author of the Chicagoland Vampires novels. A new series about a boarding school filled with something worse than homework. When Lily Parker's guardians decided to send her away to a fancy boarding school in Chicago, Lily was shocked. So... read more

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  • Lily Parker: A sixteen year old, sent to St. Sophia's, an extremely exclusive, all girls boarding school in Chicago, while her parents go on research sabbatical to Germany. Lead character.
  • Scout Green: Lily's suitemate and BFF. adept that can bind and cast spells with her grimiore
  • Veronica Lively: Leader of the brat pack at St. Sophia's.
  • Amie Cherry: Member of the brat pack. Lily's suitemate.
  • Mary Katherine "M.K.": Member of the brat pack. Not actually rich, but very snobby.
  • Lesley Barnaby: Lily's other suitemate. Usually keeps to herself.
  • Marceline D. Foley: Headmistress of St. Sophia's.
  • Michael Garcia: Friend of Scout's. Attends Monteclare, an Adept who is a 'reader'
  • Jason Shepherd: Friend of Scout's. Attends Monteclare, an Adept who is a werewolf
  • Smith: Varsity Adept
  • Jamie: An adept, with the power over fire, Jill's twin
  • Katie: Varsity Adept
  • Paul: An adept with the power of a warrior
  • Jill: Jamie's twin sister, an adept who has the power over ice
  • Sebastian Born: a Reaper in the city chicago
  • Derek: A friend of Scout's who had graduated from Montclare
  • Alex: A senior in public school, a Reaper
  • Mr. Hollis: A teacher at St. Sophia's
  • Ashley: Lily's best friend in New York
  • Collette: One of the girls at St. Sophia's
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  • “Oh, please," Scout said. "Don't take that tone with me. You know you'd love to have a minion. Someone at your beck and call. Someone to do your bidding. How many times have you said to yourself, 'Self, I need a unicorn to run errands and such'?”
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  • “Well then,” Scout said, raising her cup of water, “I suppose you’d better thank your lucky stars that you found me. ’Cause I’m going to be on you like white on rice. I’m a hard friend to shake, Parker.”
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  • “Oh, please,” Scout said. “Don’t take that tone with me. You know you’d love to have a minion. Someone at your beck and call. Someone to do your bidding. How many times have you said to yourself, ‘Self, I need a unicorn to run errands and such’?”
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  • “Boobs and earthquakes?” I asked. “That’s quite a change.”
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  • “Really trying to do some work here, ladies. Go play Gilmore Girls somewhere else.”
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  • “Why does it not surprise me that you have magic driven by sarcasm?”
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  • What did she think—that I was starving myself and I’d passed out for lack of food? If only she’d seen the private moment I shared with the pudding cup earlier.
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  • “Ad meloria,” Michael said. “It’s Latin. Means ‘toward better things.’
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  • ‘What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself?’
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Setting & Locations edit see section history

  • Chicago, IL: Main setting for story, also know as the Windy City
  • Sagamore, New York: Lily's hometown
  • St. Sophia's: Exclusive all-girls boarding school in Chicago, housed in a former convent and school run by nuns
  • Munich, Germany: Where Lily's parents went on a two-year academic sabbatical at a university there
  • Great Hall: Study/gathering area for student at St. Sophia's

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First Sentence edit see section history

They were gathered around a conference table in a high-rise, eight men and women, no one under the age of sixty-five, all of them wealthy beyond measure.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Chapters 1 - 22

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 1 of 3 in A Novel of the Dark Elite. (standard series)

Followed by Hexbound.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Chloe Neill (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Signet
Country: USA
Publication Date: January 5, 2010
ISBN: 978-0451228864
Page Count: 260

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Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Young Adults

+13

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