Sidhe's Call [Excerpt]

Bound by duty, sixteen-year-old Morgan must begin forewarning human deaths. After all, as a newly-appointed Ban Sidhe (banshee), it's her job to be a death caller. But Morgan's conflicted when the Inner Ring—the elite group of ruling Sidhe—assigns a fifteen-year-old human boy, Aidan Tanner, as her first death to keen on her road to adulthood. Morgan soon realizes she must make a critical decision; will she help end such a young life or follow her instincts and refuse to make the call? As if helping end the life of someone her own age is not enough, Morgan must also help her kind face the crisis foretold in the Thousand-Year Sidhe prophecy. Little does she know, her decision to call Aidan's death could have catastrophic consequences in a showdown between her world and the human world. The young Ban Sidhe feels lost as she struggles to cope with the lingering pain from her mother and father's separate disappearances. Her twin sisters criticize her every move, and the only other Sidhe she can turn to is an eccentric and crazy seer. Desperate to do what she feels is right, Morgan confronts her weaknesses to make the hardest decisions of her life. Alone.Sidhe's Call is an 82,000-word young adult fantasy novel set in the various terrains of rural Idaho. Told in alternating chapters from the points of view of the young Ban Sidhe and her intended keen, Sidhe's Call reveals how two young beings from different worlds may have more in common than anyone imagines.