P.C. Cast Kristin Cast. Marked. House of Night – 1. Аннотация. MARKED. A House of Night Series, Book 1. PC Cast and Kristin Cast. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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Marked

House of Night – 1

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Аннотация

When sixteen-year-old Zoey Redbird gets Marked as a fledgling vampire she must join the House of Night school where she will train to become an adult vampire. That is, if she makes it through the Change. But Zoe is no ordinary fledgling. She has been chosen as special by the Goddess Nyx and discovers her amazing new power to conjure the elements: earth, air, fire, water and spirit. When Zoey discovers that the leader of the Dark Daughters, the school's most elite group, is misusing her Goddess-given gifts, Zoey must look within herself to embrace her destiny - with a little help from her new vampire friends.

MARKED

A House of Night Series, Book 1

PC Cast and Kristin Cast

For our wonderful agent, Meredith Bernstein, who said the three magic words: vampyre finishing school. We heart you!

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like to thank a wonderful student of mine, John Maslin, for research help and for reading and giving feedback on many early versions of the book. His input was invaluable.

A big THANKS GUYS goes out to my Creative Writing classes in the school year 2005-2006. Your brainstorming was lots of help (and quite amusing).

I also want to thank my fabulous daughter, Kristin, for making sure we sound like teenagers. I couldn't have done it without you. (She made me write that. ) -PC

I want to thank my lovely " mam, " better known as PC, for being such an unbelievably talented author and so easy to work with. (Okay, she made me write that. ) -Kristin

PC and Kristin would both like to thank their dad/grandpa, Dick Cast, for the biological hypothesis he helped create as the basis for the House of Night's vampyres. We love you Dad/G-pa!

From Hesiod's poem to Nyx, the Greek personification of night:

" There also stands the gloomy house of Night;

ghastly clouds shroud it in darkness.

Before it Atlas stands erect and on his head

and unwearying arms firmly supports the broad sky,

where Night and Day cross a bronze threshold

and then come close and greet each other. "

(Hesiod, Theogony, 744 ff. )