![]() ![]() Werlin disguises the retro elements by creating feminist male leads, and even though the outcome is never in doubt, she builds nail-biting tension. Lucy can break the curse only by performing three impossible tasks set forth in a variant of the ballad “Scarborough Fair.” None of her forebears have come even close, but then none of them had help from the selfless Markowitzes, the love-struck and self-sacrificing Zach or the Internet, where items like goat horns can be easily located: Lucy is the luckiest accursed girl ever. Boy-next-door-type Zach, home from college and living with the Markowitzes, happens upon Miranda's teenage diary, which outlines a curse placed on Lucy's family generations earlier by the evil Elfin Knight: the women all give birth as teens before descending into madness. She lives with loving foster parents and at seventeen is looking forward to. Dial, 17. Committed to keeping the baby, she nonetheless sees disturbing parallels to her mentally ill mother, Miranda, who had Lucy as a teen, then left her in the care of the Markowitzes-Soledad, a nurse-midwife, and her husband, Leo. Life is just as it should be for Lucy Scarborough. ![]() Lucy Scarborough, raped on prom night, is pregnant. She received a bachelors degree in English from Yale University. ![]() ) melds fantasy and suspense in a contemporary setting for a romance with plenty of teen appeal. Nancy Werlin was born and raised in Peabody, Massachusetts. ![]()
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