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Que faire de sa vie quand on connaît la date exacte de sa mort ?

Les scientifiques ont créé des enfants génétiquement parfaits, immunisés contre toutes les maladies. L'humanité a cru voir son avenir assuré...jusqu'au jour où le verdict accablant est tombé. Ces jeunes gens ont une espérance de vie incroyablement courte : 25 ans pour les hommes, 20 ans pour les femmes, sans exception. Dans ce monde désolé, des jeunes filles sont kidnappées et contraintes à des mariages polygames pour la survie de l'espèce.

Rhine, âgée de seize ans, a été enlevée de force à son frère. Elle se réveille enfermée dans une prison dorée, un manoir où des serviteurs veillent à ses moindres désirs. Malgré l'amour sincère de son mari et la confiance qui s'instaure petit à petit avec ses sœurs épouses, Rhine n'a qu'une idée en tête : s'enfuir de cet endroit.

S'il y a bien une chose dont Javotte et Anastasie sont certaines, c'est qu'elles ne finiront jamais comme leur mère. La dame de Trémaine qu'elles connaissent est une matriarche emplie de cruauté et rongée par l'amertume. Les deux sœurs, elles, se sont promis – en elles et entre elles – d’être différentes. Elles verront le monde, trouveront l'amour, et ne laisseront jamais leur cœur se changer en pierre.

Mues par une rivalité attisée par Madame de Trémaine, Javotte et Anastasie dansent malgré elles une valse complexe sur une partition tumultueuse. Durant les semaines qui précèdent les festivités royales – leur unique chance d'impressionner le Prince et de se montrer à la hauteur des attentes maternelles –, les deux sœurs goûtent à une vie sans l'emprise de Madame de Trémaine. Javotte se prend de passion pour la science, tandis qu'Anastasie se jette dans une histoire d'amour secret.

Mais une mère experte en manipulation n'a jamais dit son dernier mot, et les filles pourraient apprendre à leurs dépens qu'aussi cruel soit-il, un cœur verse toujours du sang...

A banished princess.

A deadly curse.

A kingdom at war.

Wil Heidle, the only daughter of the king of the world’s wealthiest nation, has grown up in the shadows. Kept hidden from the world in order to serve as a spy for her father—whose obsession with building his empire is causing a war—Wil wants nothing more than to explore the world beyond her kingdom, if only her father would give her the chance.

Until one night Wil is attacked, and she discovers a dangerous secret. Her touch turns people into gemstone. At first Wil is horrified—but as she tests its limits, she’s drawn more and more to the strange and volatile ability. When it leads to tragedy, Wil is forced to face the destructive power within her and finally leave her home to seek the truth and a cure.

But finding the key to her redemption puts her in the path of a cursed prince who has his own ideas for what to do with her power.

With a world on the brink of war and a power of ultimate destruction, can Wil find a way to help the kingdom that’s turned its back on her, or will she betray her past and her family forever?

On Internment, the floating island in the clouds where 16-year-old Morgan Stockhour lives, getting too close to the edge can lead to madness. Even though Morgan's older brother, Lex, was a Jumper, Morgan vows never to end up like him. She tries her best not to mind that her life is orderly and boring, and if she ever wonders about the ground, and why it is forbidden, she takes solace in best friend Pen and her betrothed, Basil.

Then a murder, the first in a generation, rocks the city. With whispers swirling and fear on the wind, Morgan can no longer stop herself from investigating, especially when she meets Judas. He is the boy being blamed for the murder — betrothed to the victim — but Morgan is convinced of his innocence. Secrets lay at the heart of Internment, but nothing can prepare Morgan for what she will find — or who she will lose.

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« Un premier roman poignant. Lauren DeStefano a un regard sûr et parfois implacable sur la cruauté, la pitié et les contradictions de ses personnages. » Publishers Weekly

« Dérangeant, magnifique, puissant et atroce : Lauren DeStefano a fait de l’histoire de Rhine une œuvre d’art. » Fantastic Book Review

Que faire de sa vie quand on connaît la date exacte de sa mort ?

L’humanité croyait son avenir assuré. La science avait créé des enfants parfaits, immunisés contre toutes les maladies.

Mais qui pouvait imaginer le prix à payer ?

Car désormais, personne ne survit au-delà de vingt-cinq ans. Le monde a changé. Pour les jeunes femmes, la liberté n’est plus qu’un souvenir. Au nom de la survie de l’espèce, elles sont kidnappées et contraintes à des mariages polygames. Rhine a seize ans. Quand elle se réveille dans une prison dorée, elle n’a qu’une idée en tête : fuir.

Qu’importe l’amour que lui portent son mari et ses sœurs épouses. Quand on n’a que quelques années à vivre, la liberté n’a pas de prix.

Pram Bellamy is special—she can talk to ghosts. She doesn’t have too many friends amongst the living, but that’s all right. She has her books, she has her aunts, and she has her best friend, the ghostly Felix.

Then Pram meets Clarence, a boy from school who has also lost a parent and is looking for answers. Together they arrive at the door of the mysterious Lady Savant, who promises to help. But this spiritualist knows the true nature of Pram’s power, and what she has planned is more terrifying than any ghost.

The author of the famous series: The Chemical Garden, arrives this autumn with a new duology!

This is the story of the day when Jade meets Edison. Three identical sisters who have the nasty habit of killing their boyfriend but the youngest commits her worst crime: falling in love, while she is a serial killer who has just found her next target.

Note: From now, Lauren Destefano will write under the pseudonym: Ren Destefano

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L'auteur de la célèbre série : Le dernier Jardin, débarque cet automne avec une nouvelle duologie !

C'est l'histoire du jour où Jade rencontre Edison. Trois sœurs identiques qui ont la vilaine habitude de tuer leur petit ami mais la plus jeune commet son pire crime : tomber amoureuse, alors qu'elle est une tueuse en série qui vient de trouver sa prochaine cible.

Disponible début 2023 !

P.S : A partir de maintenant, Lauren Destefano écrira sous le pseudonyme : Ren Destefano.

Before Morgan, there was Daphne, the girl who asked too many questions and changed everything...

In this look back at Daphne, before her subversive paper led to her murder by order of the king, Daphne witnesses her seven-year-old sister Amy having a seizure-like event, a result of injuries sustained when she wandered too close to the Edge. Government doctors insist these seizures are punishment for Amy's bad behavior, but Daphne disagrees. Obsessed with finding out what lured her sister out there to the Edge to begin with, Daphne leads Judas, her betrothed, a young man with his own secrets, on an expedition near the Edge to reconstruct her sister's fateful event. But how close is too close?

Rise back up to the floating city of Internment in this original enovella, a dark look at life in the royal family after the events of Perfect Ruin.

When King Furlow begins to treat Prince Azure as the heir apparent that he is, he takes him to see the “re-education camps” for wrong-thinkers. But as he enters the camps ,Azure discovers the dark underbelly of the kingdom—and the king himself. His view of his father can never be the same, but what about his view of himself?

A sweet and charming picture book about fear, anxiety, and unicorns.

The unicorn smells nice, but she is very rude. She never waits for an invitation to come over—she walks right in and tracks heart-shaped hoof-prints across the carpet. She sits in Elizabeth’s chair and makes a complete mess of the house. She even sleeps in Elizabeth’s bed.

But the unicorn is no ordinary unicorn . . .

Lionel is a wild boy, who doesn’t much like to be around other people. He’d rather be a purring cat or a wolf stalking the woods.

Marybeth is a nice girl. She doesn’t need to be told to comb her hair or brush her teeth, and she’s kind to everyone at the orphanage... Lionel most of all.

Different though they are, Lionel and Marybeth are best friends in a world that has forgotten about them. So when a mysterious blue spirit possesses Marybeth — and starts to take control— they know they must stop it before the real Marybeth fades away forever.

Brassmere Academy for the Extraordinary is a school for orphans with strange and wonderful gifts. Twelve-year-old Plum has lived there forever, and each night, she ventures into her dreams alongside her three best friends, Vien, Gwendle, and Artem, to fight monsters and journey on dangerous quests. But one night, Plum gets a mysterious warning that she and her friends are no longer safe. And the next morning, Artem is nowhere to be found.

As Plum, Vien, and Gwendle search for their friend—in both the dreaming and waking worlds—they start to uncover alarming secrets about Brassmere and its intentions. Will they be able to find Artem before it’s too late, or will they be next to disappear?

What if a machine could bring back the ones we love?

When Emmaline Beaumont's father started building the ghost machine, she didn't expect it to bring her mother back from the dead. But by locking himself in the basement to toil away at his hopes, Monsieur Beaumont has become obsessed with the contraption and neglected the living, and Emmaline is tired of feeling forgotten.

Nothing good has come from building the ghost machine, and Emmaline decides that the only way to bring her father back will be to make the ghost machine work…or destroy it forever.