Legends collide with reality when a boy is swept intoย the magical, dangerous world of a girl filled with poison.
Everyone knows the legends about the cursed girlโIsabel, the one the seรฑoras whisper about. They say she has green skin and grass for hair, and she feeds on the poisonous plants that fill her familyโs lush Caribbean island garden. Some say she can grant wishes; some say her touch can kill. Seventeen-year-old Lucas spends summers with his hotel-developer father in Puerto Rico, and heโs grown up hearing the stories. When letters from the cursed girl mysteriously appear in his room the same day his girlfriend disappears, Lucas turns to Isabel for answersโand finds himself lured into her strange and enchanted world. But the more entangled Lucas becomes with Isabel, the less certain he is of escaping with his own life.
โA breathtaking story in which myths come toย frightening life and buried wishes might actually come true.โย โNova Ren Suma,ย author ofย The Walls Around Usย andย Imaginary Girls
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โSamantha Mabryโs magical debut is both a chilling mysteryย and a heartbreaking meditation on love, longing, and sacrifice . . .ย A Fierce and Subtle Poisonย will get into your blood.โย โLaura Ruby,ย author ofย Bone Gap
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โWith its sparklingly sinister blend of natural historyย and magic, of themes that seem both modern and timeless,ย A Fierce and Subtle Poisonย gets under the skin.โโChicago Tribune
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