The Raven Boys

Blue Sargent is the only one in her family of psychics without a gift of her own, but she carries a weighty prophecy: if she kisses her true love, he will die. For years, she has accompanied her clairvoyant mother to a churchyard to watch the spirits of those who will die in the coming year. And for years, she has seen nothing. Until this year, when a boy emerges from the darkness and speaks to her, revealing himself as a student from the privileged Aglionby Academy. His name is Gansey, and he is one of the Raven Boys.

Gansey and his friends are on a quest to find a legendary sleeping Welsh king, who is said to grant a life-altering favor to the one who wakes him. Drawn into their secretive and dangerous world of ancient magic, ley lines, and buried secrets, Blue finds that her fate is inextricably tangled with theirs. She has always been warned to stay away from the Raven Boys, but now she is part of their search. This is a story about the powerful, strange, and unbreakable bonds of friendship, and the discovery that magic is waiting just beneath the surface of the ordinary world.