She'll not only learn how her fellow foster and best friend, Gabriel, really feels about her, but she'll discover that she isn't really without family. When the inevitable explosion occurs, her life gets its biggest shakeup yet. She's already worked her way through five foster placements, and she's doing whatever she can to avoid getting blasted into a sixth.Īs her eighteenth birthday approaches and she feels the strange and powerful energy building, disaster looms. Okay, not a blown-to-smithereens explosion, but whatever it is always hurts like hell and leaves her life a shambles. This time Jessica Day is not the only Midnighter in mortal danger, and if the group can't find a way to come together, they could lose one of their own - forever.Ī tale of betrayal, horrifying revelations, and powerful alliances, touching darkness is the second volume of the riveting Midnighters trilogy by acclaimed author Scott Westerfeld.Įvery three years, Amber Hopkins explodes. As they learn more about the secret hour's twists and turns, they uncover terrifying mysteries woven into the very fabric of Bixby's history, and a conspiracy that touches both the midnight hour and the world of daylight.Īt the same time, the Midnighters' own secrets start to emerge, including some that were never meant to come to light, changing the fragile dynamics among the five.

These five teenagers are the only ones who know about the mysterious hour at midnight when the world freezes, except for them and the creatures that inhabit the darkness.īut they do not know why earlier generations of Midnighters all disappeared, or why they are now the only Midnighters in town. The Midnighters of Bixby, Oklahoma, know that their town is full of secrets.

Never Never by Brianna R. Shrum