Moonlight

Dark Guardian Bk. 1:
Moonlight
by Rachel Hawthorne

MOONLIGHT by

Category:

Paranormal

Age Recommendation:

Grades 9+

Release Date: 3/3/09

Publisher: HarperTeen

Reviewed by:

Rating:

5 Stars

Kayla thinks she's stumbled onto a great summer job with people she connected with last summer. Right

now, she's the newbie and can't wait to start pulling her weight. She's hoping to figure out some deep dark

issues hidden under the surface about her past - the murder of her parents in the very woods she'll be

working in this summer.

She can't help but feel Lucas's eyes on her. She knows that he's older, but she can't help crushing over him

anyways. What she doesn't realize, but soon begins to unravel, is that Lucas isn't like other boys.

In fact, the townspeople aren't exactly normal. They mate for life at the age of seventeen, and Kayla's

birthday marks the beginning of a trip. She has no idea what's going on around her, but with a group of

scientists heading into the woods in hopes of catching a legendary werewolf, she's about to find out.

What she discovers leaves her as breathless as when she discovers she's head-over-heels for Lucas.

MOONLIGHT

is slightly different than Rachel Hawthorne's other novels. While

all

have romance, this

darker series plays with the supernatural.

DARK GUARDIAN

is not a series to miss. Hawthorne expertly

weaves romance with the supernatural and cloaks them with danger.