Mackie is allergic to iron and slowly losing his battle against the toxic environment in the small, depressed steel town where he’s grown up. Now a teenager, it’s amazing Mackie’s lived as long as he has. Even more amazing is that everyone ignores the obvious: Mackie’s a changeling. To ensure prosperity, his town struck a bargain with the faerie world decades before and every seven years a human baby is exchanged for a faerie one. Usually, the changeling dies in infancy. But Mackie didn’t die. He’s an outsider at school but loved by his family, especially his sister, and has a few good friends. He draws on that love and support when he decides to challenge the power of the faerie world and complacency of his town—which has long ago faded from prosperity. Mackie doesn’t think he can save himself, but the seven-year cycle has begun again. Another baby has been taken, and Mackie is determined to save her. An inventive fantasy grounded in reality offers intriguing forays into the world of dark faerie. Mackie’s quest to overthrow the status quo features a satisfying romance, several chilling scenes, and above all an appealing and sympathetic protagonist surrounded by a host of wonderful secondary characters. (Age 13 and older)

The Catcher in the Rye meets Edward Scissorhands in this chilling, gothic tale.

Mackie Doyle is not one of us. Though he lives in the small town of Gentry, he comes from a world of tunnels and black murky water, a world of living dead girls ruled by a little tattooed princess. He is a Replacement, left in the crib of a human baby sixteen years ago. Now, because of fatal allergies to iron, blood, and consecrated ground, Mackie is fighting to survive in the human world.

Mackie would give anything to live among us, to practice on his bass or spend time with his crush, Tate. But when Tate's baby sister goes missing, Mackie is drawn irrevocably into the underworld of Gentry, known as Mayhem. He must face the dark creatures of the Slag Heaps and find his rightful place, in our world, or theirs.

Praise for The Replacement:
'I so loved this book' Lauren Kate, bestselling author of Fallen
'Eerie and beautiful' Maggie Stiefvater, bestselling author of Shiver
'This is a dark tale that will totally change any preconceptions you have about fairies' The Sun