On the day of an important music competition, talented but painfully introverted and nervous Deirdre Monaghan is helped to perform by the compelling and enigmatic Luke Dillon and finds herself inexorably drawn into the mysteries and dangers of the faerieworld.

 

Sequel:

• Ballad
  

With her one true love by her side, a teenage girl, who has the rare ability to see what others cannot, is chosen by two faery realms to face the ultimate trial, becoming the Summer Queen they have been seeking for more than nine centuries if she succeeds.

 

Sequels:

• Ink Exchange
• Fragile Eternity
• Radiant Shadows
• Darkest Mercy
  

Discovering that the women of her family have been cursed for centuries upon her seventeenth birthday, Lucy decides to tackle the impossible by completing the three dangerous tasks necessary to break free from the spell and rid her family of its madness once and for all.

 

Sequels:

• Extraordinary
• Unthinkable
  

After returning home from a tour with her mother's rock band, sixteen-year-old Kaye, who has been visited by faeries since childhood, discovers that she herself is a magical faerie creature with a special destiny.

 

Sequels:

• Valiant
• Ironside
  

When her family falls apart and she is sent to live with her grandmother in a rural town in Maine, Zara begins to feel as though she may be able to start life anew--until a stalking pixie with bad intentions makes himself known and causes chaos in her emotionally fragile world.

 

Sequels:

• Captivate
• Entince 
• Endure
  

When a plant blooms out of fifteen-year-old Laurel's back, it leads her to discover the fact that she is a faerie and that she has a crucial role to play in keeping the world safe from the encroaching enemy trolls.

 

Sequels:

• Spells
• Illusions
• Destined
  

Troubled by family problems, Henry finds his life taking a whole new dimension when he and his friend, old Mr. Fogarty, become involved with Prince Pyrgus Malvae who has been sent from the faerie world in order to escape the treacherous Faeries of the Night.

 

Sequels:

• The Purple Emperor
• Ruler of the Realm
• Faerie Lord
• The Faeman Quest
  

When seventeen-year-old actress Kelley Winslow meets Sonny Flannery, she discovers he is a changeling who guards the gate between the faerie Otherworld and the mortal realm, and also that her mother had otherworldly powers that she has passed on to Kelley.

 

Sequels:

• Darklight
• Tempestuous
  

Dana Hathaway, a Faeriewalker who can travel between Earth and the Faire world, finds herself at Avalon, the intersection of the two worlds, as she tries to find her father and isn't sure whom to trust when she discovers that someone in Avalon wants her dead.

 

Sequels:

• Shadowspell
• Sirensong
  

When his mother asks for "time" for her birthday, Irish teenager J.J. Liddy sets out to find it and stumbles upon Tir na n'Og, the land of the fairies, where he uncovers secrets about his family history, magic, the music that he loves, and a crime his great-grandfather may or may not have committed.

 

Sequels:

• The Last of the High Kings
• The White Horse Trick
  

Forced into becoming an indentured servant when her family dies, Ash lives a lonely and desperate life with no hopes for the future, until she meets Kaisa, the King's royal Huntress, who teaches her to love, live, and dream once again.

 

Also by Malinda Lo:

• Huntress
  

On the eve of her 16th birthday, Meghan Chase learns that she is the daughter of the summer faery king, and when her half-brother is kidnapped, she must journey into a fantastical world she never imagined to face an unknown enemy and save the people she loves.

 

Sequels:

• The Iron Daughter
• The Iron Queen
• The Iron Knight
• The Iron Legends