Black, Holly

"As the exiled Queen of Faerie, Jude must travel back to Elfhame to help her twin sister, Taryn, and uncover how to break a dark curse threatening the whole Faerie world"--Provided by publisher.

Collects three novels from Holly Black's Modern Faerie Tale series, including "Tithe," in which Kaye learns she is a magical creature with a special destiny, "Valiant," which follows sixteen-year-old Kaye after she falls in the middle of a war between rival faery courts, and "Ironside," in which runaway Valerie falls under the control of a New York troll named Ravus.

"Cardan Greenbriar, High King of Elfhame, visits the mortal world to face the troll woman, Aslog of the West"--OCLC.

When seventeen-year-old Valerie runs away to New York, she s trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city s labyrinthine subway system. But there s something eerily beguiling about Val s new friends that sets her on edge.

Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she drifts from place to place with her mother s rock band until an ominous attack forces them back to Kaye s childhood home. But Kaye s life takes another turn when she stumbles upon an injured faerie knight in the woods. Kaye has always been able to see faeries where others could not, and she chooses to save the strange young man instead of leaving him to die.

". . . newly-queened Aurora struggles to be the best leader to both the humans and Fair Folk under her reign; her beau, Prince Phillip, longs to get to know Aurora and her kingdom better; and Maleficent has trouble letting go of the past"--Provided by publisher.

Seventeen-year-old Val runs away to New York City, where she falls in with a gang of squatters who live in the city's subway system and consort with faeries, trolls, and other strange creatures.

Rue Silver must travel deep into the faerie realm in order to rescue her mother and at the same time try and stop the faerie realm from venturing into the human world.

Sixteen-year-old Rue Silver, whose mother disappeared weeks ago, believes she is going crazy until she learns that the strange things she has been seeing are real, and that she is one of the faerie creatures, or Good Neighbors, that mortals cannot see.

"As the exiled Queen of Faerie, Jude must travel back to Elfhame to help her twin sister, Taryn, and uncover how to break a dark curse threatening the whole Faerie world"--Provided by publisher.