Deny Me, The Nightshade Boy by Mary VanAlstine EPUB & PDF

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• Author: Mary VanAlstine
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ANDREW VIDASCHE WAS MUCH too nerdy to be hunting faeries in
Lilydale.
What he’d have preferred to be doing was sipping tea and watching
documentaries in sweatpants while he cuddled his cat. Nerds like him
shouldn’t be walking into faerieland. But if he wanted to keep his sanity
(what was left of it), he didn’t have a choice. The solitude had gotten too
heavy, and with it, the weight of the rift between him and his estranged
mother.

In a park overlooking downtown Saint Paul, Andrew made his way to the
Brickyard Trail, the easiest place to get off the Path and into the bluffs
where the Folk lived. Lilydale was untamed: steep sprawling limestone
crags hung over the eastern banks of the Mississippi, haggard trees clinging
desperately to the soil between the stones. Once, they’d tried to put a
brickyard in the hills, but its massive kiln had exploded and killed everyone
working. Not too long ago, some kids on a field trip got washed away in a
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mudslide while hunting for fossils, and the bluffs had been prohibited ever
since. It seemed to Andrew that nature was trying to keep people out.
For as wild as it was, magic foods made by the Folk still got out of the
bluffs and into the hands of humans, which Andrew never would have
known about if not for how open his mum had been about her struggle with
addiction. In Andrew’s teens, his mum’s pill addiction had culminated in
such Fae-spelled foods. He remembered the foods to be unassuming: apple
chunks in plastic baggies or heels of dark rye bread, once a little vial of
golden liquid. But a single bite would leave his mum out of touch for days,
hallucinating that she was being strangled by vines, turning on all the gas
burners on the stove because she liked the smell, or convinced she was a
princess on the better days. She’d be covered in sweat with a hummingbird
heartbeat and blue skin around her lips.

The visions of her during and after taking those enchanted foods haunted
Andrew. Using the stove made him hyperventilate. Irish brogue accents
brought tears to his eyes. He wanted to both hug and slap any red-haired
woman he saw. It seemed like the only way to get relief from his memories
was to find her again, to rebuild their relationship. To try to reconcile.
Because his mum hadn’t had a phone since he was fourteen, his first step
to tracking her down was to get a hold of her oldest friend. Kate’s phone
number was still written on a scrap of paper buried in a box of Andrew’s
childhood things. When they met, she’d confirmed his suspicions that Faespelled foods might have been his mum’s downfall. She blamed the Folk:

dangerous, ambivalent faeries living in the river bluffs over the city. She
tried to talk him out of going up there, but if there was some chance his
mum was up there—captured by the faeries that got her addicted—then he
was going to find her. So here he was. What would these supposed faeries

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