Holly Black, New York Times Best Seller Author for The Spiderwick Chronicles, is releasing a new YA Series – The Curse Workers. Book 1 of the series is White Cat, coming out May 2010.

Here is a synopsis for White Cat: “Cassel comes from a family of curse workers — people who have the power to change your emotions, your memories, your luck, by the slightest touch of their hands. And since curse work is illegal, they’re all mobsters, or con artists. Except for Cassel. He hasn’t got the magic touch, so he’s an outsider, the straight kid in a crooked family. You just have to ignore one small detail — he killed his best friend, Lila, three years ago.

Ever since, Cassel has carefully built up a façade of normalcy, blending into the crowd. But his façade starts crumbling when he starts sleepwalking, propelled into the night by terrifying dreams about a white cat that wants to tell him something. He’s noticing other disturbing things, too, including the strange behavior of his two brothers. They are keeping secrets from him, caught up in a mysterious plot. As Cassel begins to suspect he’s part of a huge con game, he also wonders what really happened to Lila. Could she still be alive? To find out, Cassel you have to out-con the conmen.”

Black is a very gifted writer, able to keep the reader glued to the book’s page until the reading is finished. Her writing is fast passed, very passionate, intense and completely addictive. Check out her other YA series featuring some scary faeries: Tithe, Valiant and Ironside HERE.

Pretty Little Liars 8 releasing June 29, 2010.