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White Cat (Curse Workers, Book 1)

ISBN: 9781416963967

Title: White Cat (Curse Workers, Book 1)

Author: Holly Black

KDL Description:

Rendered an outsider because of his dubious family of magical con artists, Cassel struggles with lingering guilt over his role in a friend’s death years earlier and begins experiencing bizarre dreams about a white cat that make him question his dead friend’s actual fate.

Amazon Description:

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 that out, Cassel will have to out-con the conmen.

Holly Black has created a gripping tale of mobsters and dark magic where a single touch can bring love—or death—and your dreams might be more real than your memories.