Tithe / Valiant / Ironside
In <I>Tithe</I>, sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she drifts from place to place with her mother€s rock band until an ominous attack forces Kaye back to her childhood home. There, amid the blue-collar New Jersey backdrop, Kaye finds herself an unwilling pawn in an ancient and violent power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms€"a struggle that could very well mean her death. <br><br>In <I>Valiant</I>, the companion to <I>Tithe</I>, seventeen-year-old Valerie runs away to New York City, trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city€s labyrinthine subway system. But there€s something eerily beguiling about Val€s new friends. When one talks Val into tracking down the lair of a mysterious creature, Val finds herself torn between her affection for an honorable monster and her fear of what her new friends are becoming. <br><br>In <I>Ironside</I>, the sequel to <I>Tithe</I>, the time has come for Roiben€s coronation. Uneasy in the midst of the malevolent Unseelie Court, pixie Kaye is sure of only one thing€"her love for Roiben. But when Kaye drunkenly declares herself to Roiben, he sends her on a seemingly impossible quest to find a faerie who can tell a lie. Unable to see Roiben until she has fulfilled his quest, Kaye finds herself in the center of the battle of wits and weapons being waged over his throne.