Induction

What do you do when the tragedy that upends your life involves something so strange, so beyond the known, that not even your closest loved ones believe you? In this contemporary fantasy novel, sixteen-year-old Mika Finley was driving her family home from the carnival when the car collided with a mythical-looking beast. As the creature hurried off into the darkness, she and the rest of her family came to...all but her brother, Aaron. Now, as Mika struggles to hold together her life of school, work and a house in mourning, she tries to find answers about the creature's existence, if only to prove to her family, and herself, that it wasn't just her tired imagination. Or, worse, an excuse for the accident. Finding herself again in the path of the beast, she soon stumbles on an entire underground world of demons and monsters once thought confined to storybooks, dreams, and videogames. Monsters. Demons. Mika joins the Okada School of Excellence to learn how to battle monsters-like the one that caused the accident-and monsters that don't appear as such right off. Secrets. As if battling the guilt over her brother's death isn't enough, Mika has come to terms with her best friend's secret life, and that meeting your celebrity crush isn't as exciting as it should be. Ninjas. Why is it that those who fight the monsters resemble her favorite boy-band from a few years ago? And what's happening with the recent spate of missing girls? S.E. Sharp's Induction is a thrill-ride of monstrous proportions, as action-packed as it is tender and intimate.