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Gilded Wings: Book 1

Illuminate (2012) (edit title/settings)

by Aimee Agresti (Author) (edit contributors)

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Haven Terra is a brainy, shy, high school, outcast. But everything changes when she is awarded a prestigious internship at a posh Chicago hotel under the watchful eyes of a group of gorgeous strangers: the powerful and alluring hotel owner, Aurelia Brown; her second-in-command, the dashing... read more

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Haven Terra is a brainy, shy high school outcast. But everything begins to change when she turns sixteen. Along with her best friend, Dante, and their quiet and brilliant classmate, Lance, she is awarded a prestigious internship in the big city of Chicago and is sent to live and work at a... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Haven Terra is a brainy, shy high school outcast. But everything begins to change when she turns sixteen. Along with her best friend, Dante, and their quiet and brilliant classmate, Lance, she is awarded a prestigious internship in the big city of Chicago and is sent to live and work at a swanky and stylish hotel under the watchful eyes of a group of gorgeous and shockingly, young-looking strangers: powerful and alluring hotel owner, Aurelia Brown; her second in command, Lucian Grove; and their stunning, but aloof staff of glamazons, The Outfit.

As Haven begins falling for Lucian, she discovers these beautiful people are not quite what they seem. With the help of a mysterious book, she uncovers a network of secret passageways from the hotel’s jazz-age past that leads her to the heart of the evil agenda of Aurelia and company: business of buying souls. Will they succeed in wooing Haven to join them in their recruitment efforts, or will she be able to thwart this devilish set’s plans to take the souls of her classmates on prom night at the hotel?

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  • Haven Terra: main character; intelligent but shy; outcast; orphaned at 5; candystriper at Joan's hospital; Auriela's intern at the hotel
  • Lance: quiet; intelligent; Haven's friend/classmate; Lucien's intern
  • Dante Dennis: Haven's best and childhood friend; gay; chef intern for Etan
  • Aurelia Brown: owns Lexington Hotel
  • Lucian Grove: second in command to Aurelia at Lexington Hotel; Haven likes him
  • Joan Terra: adopted Haven; nurse
  • Beckett: one of the Outfit; Haven believes he is responsible for killings
  • Etan D'Amour: Chef at the hotel; Dante's intern
  • Calliope: artist; one of The Outfit
  • Prince: Aurelia's interest
  • Raphaella: one of the Outfit; seems to like Lance
  • Dr. Williams: works with Joan at the hospital
  • Neil Marlinson: patron of the hotel
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  • “We are our best advertisement. We embody the youth and vitality that people want a piece of. We are that touch of wild and unpredictable and untameable that they crave. So, we are going to celebrate that, and annoint ourselves more powerful in the process.”
    Aurelia
  • “I guess we often want what we can't have. Isn't that a most basic trait of human nature? Isn't that why, for instance, you girls always go for the bad-boy archetype?" "Kindly refrain from saddling me with your generalizations, thank you.....Maybe we should discuss why it is you guys always jump at the icy, glamourous girls, the ones who descend from lines of giraffes and hourglasses who usually manage to show a lot of skin.”
    Lance and Haven
  • “Bodies circulated all around me but I felt stangely solitary, a lone tree growing in a completely barren and deserted field.”
    Haven
  • “When you're on the outside of anything and looking in, there is a tacit understanding that everything on the inside has more value.”
    Haven
  • “The collective power of those eyes could swirl around you, bubble up inside you, and, if you let it, convince you that you were worthy of it and you were something to see.”
    Haven
  • “I was--I am--enchanted by you....There's a spark there, when you look at any of us it makes us feel like there's so much we don't know and we want to know, like you're taking us in and we're the only one in the room.”
    Lucien

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Chicago, Illinois

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First Sentence edit see section history

"Up until that point, English class had been unremarkable."

Table of Contents edit see section history

Part One
1. A Rare Opportunity
2. Good Things Come in Threes
3. Your New Surroundings
4. Not a Bad Place to Visit
5. Welcome to the Ring of Fire
6. It'll Probably be Just Hideous
7. Everything Sinful is Glamorous
8. What's with the Book?
9. That's Not Quite How I Imagined Paradiso
10. You Will be Spending a Good Deal of Time There
11. Tell me you Forgive Me or I Won't Let You Go
12. Don't Get Too Comfortable
13. Beauty is Genius
14. You Might Have a Dark Side

Part Two
15. Be Cool, Please
16. You're That Girl
17. An Evening in Alcatraz
18. We Mustn't Underestimate Her
19. Please Give Me Your Soul
20. Charm Her, For God's Sake
21. The Induction
22. An Unexpected Visit
23. Not Human, But Devil
24. Today Was... Unfortunate
25. We've Got to Do Something About Dante

Part Three
26. You're a New Woman
27. I Need to Talk to You
28. I Want You to Win
29. Rendezvous at The Library
30. You're Next
31. Time For a Change
32. We'll Always Have Metamorfosi
33. You Have to Do This For Me
34. A Decline, Without Regrets
35. Be Strong... and Be You

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 1 of 3 in Gilded Wings. (standard series)

Followed by Infatuate.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Aimee Agresti (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Harcourt
Country: USA
Publication Date: March 6, 2012
ISBN: 9780547626147
Page Count: 514

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Young Adults

Notes for Parents: Novel explores light/good versus dark/evil; novel is appropriate/accessible for mulitple ages and reading levels.

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