The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker (Strangely Beautiful, #1)

SUMMARY: Longing to escape her convent existence in Victorian London, albino beauty Percy enters Athens Academy, where she develops her psychic powers and is enthralled by the Romanesque school's enigmatic Professor Alexi. Original. What fortune awaited sweet, timid Percy Parker at Athens Academy? Hidden in the dark heart of Victorian London, the Romanesque school was dreadfully imposing, a veritable fortress, and little could Percy guess what lay inside. She had never met its powerful and mysterious Professor Alexi Rychman, knew nothing of the growing shadows, of the Ripper and other supernatural terrors against which his coterie stood guard. She saw simply that she was different, haunted, with her snow white hair, pearlescent skin and uncanny gift. This arched stone doorway was a portal to a new life, to an education far from what could be had at a convent -- and it was an invitation to an intimate yet dangerous dance at the threshold of life and death... The albino beauty who has come to study at Victorian London's Athens Academy will learn not only to deal with the ghosts that she can see, but her own part in the puzzling prophecy that threatens the known world Hieber's debut Victorian fantasy will appeal to fans of Philip Pullman, HollyBlack, Susanna Clarke, and Stephenie Meyer