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    The Young and the Dark
    The Young and the Dark
    EMCastellan
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    • Reads
      Reads 18,040
      18,04018K
    • Votes
      Votes 1,765
      1,7651.7K
    • Parts
      Parts 8
      88
    • Time
      Time 58m
      0 hours, 58 minutes58m
    EMCastellan
    Ongoing
    Ongoing, First published May 18, 2017
    **Sequel to THE BRIGHT AND THE LOST** A YA Historical Fantasy set in 1922 that mixes romance, magic and mystery!
        
        Following the upsetting events that disrupted her London Season and changed her life forever, eighteen-year-old Vita is ready to spend a quiet winter at her country estate with her fiancé.
         
        Newly wed to the handsome son of a Hong-Kong businessman, Vita's best friend Izzy can't quite believe all her dreams are finally coming true: she's escaped her ruined family and she's traded the horrid English weather for the Californian sunshine.
         
        However, when an unexpected event disrupts Vita's routine at Weatherly, she has no choice but to leave behind her home and go in search of Holden - the stranger who turned her life upside down during the summer and knows the answers to all of her questions. Her quest leads her to New York, where new dangers lurk in the shadows of the city's skyscrapers and speakeasies.
        
        From Hollywood to Manhattan, darkness soon engulfs the lives of both girls, who find themselves in a race against time to locate Holden, unravel the mysteries surrounding Vita - and avoid getting caught in a thousand-year-old secret war that threatens to destroy them all.   
         
        Copyright © 2017. All works posted here are the property of EM Castellan. Please do not use without permission. Any duplication or reproduction of all or part of the work without explicit permission by the author is illegal.
        
        Cover artist: Amalia Chitulescu
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    • england
    • fantasy
    • fiction
    • flapper
    • friendship
    • girlpower
    • historical
    • london
    • love
    • magic
    • mystery
    • newyork
    • romance
    • teenfiction
    • youngadult
    englandfantasyfictionflapperfriendshipgirlpowerhistoricallondonlovemagicmysterynewyorkromanceteenfictionyoungadult
    Table of contents
    • The Young and The Dark (Ongoing)
      Thu, May 18, 2017
    • One
      Thu, May 18, 2017
    • Two
      Fri, May 19, 2017
    • Three
      Wed, May 24, 2017
    • Four
      Sat, May 27, 2017
    • Five
      Sun, May 28, 2017
    • Six
      Sun, Feb 4, 2018
    • Seven
      Mon, Feb 12, 2018

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    **Sequel to THE BRIGHT AND THE LOST** A YA Historical Fantasy set in 1922 that mixes romance, magic and mystery!
        
        Following the upsetting events that disrupted her London Season and changed her life forever, eighteen-year-old Vita is ready to spend a quiet winter at her country estate with her fiancé.
         
        Newly wed to the handsome son of a Hong-Kong businessman, Vita's best friend Izzy can't quite believe all her dreams are finally coming true: she's escaped her ruined family and she's traded the horrid English weather for the Californian sunshine.
         
        However, when an unexpected event disrupts Vita's routine at Weatherly, she has no choice but to leave behind her home and go in search of Holden - the stranger who turned her life upside down during the summer and knows the answers to all of her questions. Her quest leads her to New York, where new dangers lurk in the shadows of the city's skyscrapers and speakeasies.
        
        From Hollywood to Manhattan, darkness soon engulfs the lives of both girls, who find themselves in a race against time to locate Holden, unravel the mysteries surrounding Vita - and avoid getting caught in a thousand-year-old secret war that threatens to destroy them all.   
         
        Copyright © 2017. All works posted here are the property of EM Castellan. Please do not use without permission. Any duplication or reproduction of all or part of the work without explicit permission by the author is illegal.
        
        Cover artist: Amalia Chitulescu

    8 parts

    • Five
      Sun, May 28, 2017
    • Six
      Sun, Feb 4, 2018
    • Seven
      Mon, Feb 12, 2018
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