By Eden Maguire (author) Part of the Beautiful Dead series
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This is the first of a proposed 4 book series in the increasingly popular area of paranormal romance. Fans of Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series will love the intrigue, the excellent writing style, compelling characters coupled with a powerful mystery. A real page-turner, Jonas, the protagonist is neither alive nor dead but lying somewhere in-between with the Beautiful Dead.
Something strange is happening in Ellerton High. Phoenix is the fourth teenager to die within a year. His street fight stabbing follows the deaths of Jonas, Summer and Arizona in equally strange and sudden circumstances. Rumours of ghosts and strange happenings rip through the small community as it comes to terms with shock and loss.
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Darina, Phoenix’s grief-stricken girlfriend, is on the verge. She can’t escape her intense heartache, or the impossible apparitions of those that are meant to be dead. And all the while the sound of beating wings echo inside her head …
And then one day Phoenix appears to Darina. Ecstatic to be reunited, he tells her about the Beautiful Dead. Souls in limbo, they have been chosen to return to the world to set right a wrong linked to their deaths and bring about justice. Beautiful, superhuman and powerful, they are marked by a ‘death mark’ – a small tattoo of angel’s wings. Phoenix tells her that the sound of invisible wings beating are the millions of souls in limbo, desperate to return to earth.
Darina’s mission is clear: she must help Jonas, Summer, Arizona, and impossibly, her beloved Phoenix, right the wrong linked to their deaths to set them free from limbo so that they can finally rest in peace. Will love conquer death? And if it does, can Darina set it free?
Eden Maguire graduated from Birmingham University with a PhD in English Lit and now lives in the Yorkshire Dales with her two daughters, her horse, Merlin, plus a dog and a cat. She spends part of each year at a ranch in Colorado, where she rides alone in the mountains – her idea of perfect happiness. Whenever she can, she loves to indulge her passion for travel and take in the world’s major cities, from New York to Nairobi – where she can be found in the churches and temples, the galleries and sculpture parks, and occasionally in the designer boutiques of Fifth Avenue and the Champs Elysees. Back at home, Eden’s interests include cinema and theatre, plus art history and painting.
Something strange is happening in Ellerton High. Phoenix is the fourth teenager to die within a year.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Beautiful Dead: Jonas and determined it is suitable for children aged 11-12 years old
Beautiful Dead: Jonas features in the following genres: Featured Books for 11+ readers, Recommendations
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Beautiful Dead: Jonas was written by Eden Maguire and published by Hachette Children's Books
Beautiful Dead: Jonas has 279 pages
Yes it is part of Beautiful Dead series
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