Collection: Young Adult Fiction (Academy Use Only)

Adelina is a survivor of the blood fever, marked by a jagged scar where her left eye once was. Branded as a mafetto - an abomination - she is cast out from all she has ever known and loved. Adelina finds sanctuary with other malfettos an discovers that the disease has left her with more than ju...

Her mother's dying request takes Mary Yellan on a sad journey across the bleak moorland of Cornwall to reach Jamaica Inn, the home of her Aunt Patience. With the coachman's warning echoing in her memory, Mary arrives to find Patience a changed woman, cowering from her overbearing husband, Joss Me...