After seventeen years in the foster care system, he’s learned that there are no heroes, and secrets and fears are best kept close to the vest, where they can’t hurt anyone but him. ROBIN BENWAY is a National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of seven novels for young adults, including Audrey, Wait the AKA series.

And when her adopted family’s long-buried problems begin to explode to the surface, Maya can’t help but wonder where exactly it is that she belongs.Īnd Joaquin, their stoic older bio brother, who has no interest in bonding over their shared biological mother. Having grown up the snarky brunette in a house full of chipper redheads, she’s quick to search for traces of herself among these not-quite-strangers. Standalone Novels In Publication Order Audrey, Wait (2008) The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May, & June (2010) Emmy & Oliver (2015) Far from the Tree (. Maya, her loudmouthed younger bio sister, who has a lot to say about their newfound family ties. After putting her own baby up for adoption, she goes looking for her biological family, including. This first book in the new Disney Villains Dark Ascension series by National Book Award-winning author Robin Benway explores the complex sibling rivalry between the two wicked stepsisters from Cinderella that turned them into the characters we know today.A contemporary novel about three adopted siblings who find each other at just the right moment.īeing the middle child has its ups and downs.īut for Grace, an only child who was adopted at birth, discovering that she is a middle child is a different ride altogether. But never underestimate the power a mother whose greatest talents lie in manipulation, and the sisters may learn that even the cruelest of hearts can spill blood.

On the cusp of the royal debut party-their one chance to impress the Prince and live up to their mother’s expectations-the sisters at last get a glimpse of what life could be like outside of Lady Tremaine’s intentions: Drizella discovering a love of science and Anastasia sparking a secret romance. They’ll find love, see the world, and never let their hearts go cold.īut both sisters are all too aware of what it can mean when cast into disfavor with their mother, and fueled by Lady Tremaine’s tendencies to pit the daughters against one another, Drizella and Anastasia are locked into a complicated waltz of tenuous sisterhood. Audrey, Wait (2008) The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May, & June, (2010) Emmy & Oliver, (2015) Far from the Tree, (2017) A Year to the.

Anastasia and Drizella have promised themselves-and each other-that they’ll be different. A few years and one deceased stepfather later, the only version of Lady Tremaine that Drizella and Anastasia know is a bitter and cruel head of house. When their father left them as young girls, he took what was left of their family’s fortune and their mother’s dignity with him. “Blood is blood…and one way or another, we all bleed.”ĭrizella and Anastasia only know one thing for certain: they will never end up like their mother, Lady Tremaine.

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