Ethan Wate thought he was getting used to the strange, impossible events happening in Gatlin, his small Southern town. But now that Ethan and Lena have returned home from the Great Barrier, strange and impossible have taken on new meanings....

Ethan Wate has spent most of his life longing to escape the stiflingly small Southern town of Gatlin. He never thought he would meet the girl of his dreams, Lena Duchannes, who unveiled a secretive, powerful, and cursed side of Gatlin, hidden in plain sight....

Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she\'s struggling to conceal her power, and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever....

IS FALLING IN LOVE THE BEGINNING. OR THE END? IN ETHAN WATE\"S HOMETOWN THERE LIES THE DARKEST OF SECRETS. THERE IS A GIRL. SLOWLY, SHE PULLED THE HOOD FROM HER HEAD. GREEN EYES, BLACK HAIR. LENA DUCHANNES. THERE IS A CURSE. ON THE SIXTEENTH MOON, THE SIXTEENTH YEAR, THE BOOK WILL TAKE WHAT IT\"S BEEN PROMISED. AND NO ONE CAN STOP IT....