Raelle Tucker: Obscura, Gebunden

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On a Mediterranean island famous for its hedonistic partying---and secretly home to a mountain community of mythical beings---a teenage girl saves a trespassing tourist instead of killing him, threatening the only refuge her kind has ever known.

Obscura is a glitter-soaked Mediterranean island, world-famous for its wild nightlife---sex, drugs, and cutting-edge electronic music. While tourists flood the southern beaches, the rural North of the island is a no-man's land of treacherous dirt roads and No Trespassing signs. Those who dare to venture here rarely make it back.

Because the red mountain isn't just "cursed," and the residents aren't just a "hippie cult," as locals believe. They are a secret community of magical beings who fled thousands of years of persecution to build a utopian society where they can live undisguised and unashamed of their hidden powers.

It's a place that's totally free from human interference---until Artemis, a sixteen-year-old with secrets of her own, saves a dying boy and smuggles him into the heart of the North, setting off a reckoning that exposes the secrets, lies, and hypocrisies at the foundation of her community.

Not even her powerful, marijuana-dealing mother Morgan can shield her from the fallout. When Zo, the island's enigmatic Oracle, predicts that Artemis's rebellion will bring about their destruction, Artemis must unearth a dark prophecy that forces her to choose between exposing the truth and preserving the fragile world her family sacrificed so much to build.

Sweeping from hash-scented mountain communes to blood-soaked dance floors, from illicit romances to the island's mythic, dangerous past, Obscura is a genre-bending epic and a love letter to outsiders everywhere.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​