Darkest Powers Series by Kelley Armstrong

THE DARKEST POWERS SERIES

by Kelley Armstrong

Paranormal Young Adult
Harper Collins
www.KelleyArmstrong.com

3 autographed copies of either book (winner's choice!) will be given away on Friday, August 14, 2009!


About The Summoning (Book 1):

My name is Chloe Saunders and my life will never be the same again.

All I wanted was to make friends, meet boys, and keep on being ordinary. I don't even know what that means anymore. It all started on the day that I saw my first ghost—and the ghost saw me.

Now there are ghosts everywhere and they won't leave me alone. To top it all off, I somehow got myself locked up in Lyle House, a "special home" for troubled teens. Yet the home isn't what it seems. Don't tell anyone, but I think there might be more to my housemates than meets the eye. The question is, whose side are they on? It's up to me to figure out the dangerous secrets behind Lyle House . . . before its skeletons come back to haunt me.

About The Awakening (Book 2):

If you had met me a few weeks ago, you probably would have described me as an average teenage girl—someone normal. Now my life has changed forever and I'm as far away from normal as it gets. A living science experiment—not only can I see ghosts, but I was genetically altered by a sinister organization called the Edison Group. What does that mean? For starters, I'm a teenage necromancer whose powers are out of control; I raise the dead without even trying. Trust me, that is not a power you want to have. Ever.

Now I'm running for my life with three of my supernatural friends—a charming sorcerer, a cynical werewolf, and a disgruntled witch—and we have to find someone who can help us before the Edison Group finds us first. Or die trying.

And don't miss the third book in the series, The Reckoning, coming in May 2010






Check out our exclusive author interview with Kelley Armstrong!

1) What was your inspiration for writing the Darkest Powers series?

I’d had a book idea that was inspired by my second adult novel, Stolen. It was about supernaturals just coming into their powers, though, which in my world happens at puberty, so it wouldn't work for an adult series. That idea was in the back of my mind as I began getting email from readers I considered a little too young to be reading my other books! After a couple of years of toying with the idea, I finally decided to try writing the book during National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo.)

2) You are very well known for your adult books, why did you decide to make the transition to YA and was it a difficult decision to make?

Making that decision was the hardest part of the process. I loved the idea that I had and really wanted to write the book, but I’m a long way from the age of my main characters. I worried most about whether I could pull it off. That’s why I decided to write it during NaNoWriMo—if it didn’t work, then I’d only lost a month’s writing time and could chalk it up to experience.

3) So your main character has the ability to see ghosts and raise the dead. If you could raise one person from the dead, who would it be?

Well, if it was in my world, it would have to be someone I really, really hated. Raising the dead in the Otherworld universe means taking a ghost--probably someone enjoying a comfortable afterlife--and slamming him back into his rotting corpse, under the command of the necromancer. I don’t dislike anyone enough to do that!

4) Have you always had a fascination with ghost stories?

I have. I’ve been reading everything I could about the paranormal since childhood. No idea why—my parents weren’t “into” that or against it. I suppose I was just fascinated by the possibilities of fantasy in our world.

5) How many books will be in the Darkest Powers series and which one are you working on right now?

Chloe’s story is currently a trilogy. Then I move to a new trilogy set in the same world, with all new characters, about another Edison Group experiment. If readers want me to return to Chloe after that, I would, and would likely have the two groups meet up. I’m currently about halfway through the first book in the new trilogy (well, I was, before I had to put it aside for edits on my adult stuff!)

About the Author:

Kelley Armstrong has been telling stories since before she could write. Her earliest written efforts were disastrous. If asked for a story about girls and dolls, hers would invariably feature undead girls and evil dolls, much to her teachers' dismay. All efforts to make her produce "normal" stories failed. Today, she continues to spin tales of ghosts and demons and werewolves, while safely locked away in her basement writing-dungeon. Visit her online at: www.KelleyArmstrong.com


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