Beautiful Creatures

Beautiful Creatures is the first novel in the Caster Chronicles, co-authored by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. It follows a boy in a small southern town whose life turns upside down when a magical girl introduces him to a world he could not have imagined.

Plot Teaser
" Is falling in love the beginning . . . or the end?

In Ethan Wate's hometown there lies the darkest of secrets. ..

There is a girl. Slowly, she pulled the hood from her head. . . Green eyes, black hair. Lena Duchannes.

There is a curse. On the Sixteenth Moon, the Sixteenth Year, the Book will take what it's been promised. And no one can stop it.

In the end, there is a grave.

Lena and Ethan become bound together by a deep, powerful love. But Lena is cursed and on her sixteenth birthday, her fate will be decided. Ethan never even saw it coming."

(source: Goodreads)

Characters

 * Ethan Wate, a small-town southern boy
 * Lena Duchannes, a not-yet-claimed Caster
 * Amma, Ethan's housekeeper and primary caretaker
 * Macon Ravenwood, Lena's mysterious uncle
 * Wesley Lincoln, Ethan's best friend

Sequels
Beautiful Creatures is the first in a set of four books. It is followed by Beautiful Darkness.