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Book Review of The Gathering (Darkness Rising, Bk 1)

The Gathering (Darkness Rising, Bk 1)
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Maya Delaney and her best friend Daniel Bianchi live in a tiny island town outside of Vancouver. It's basically a private town operated by St. Cloud - a drug research company with a facility nearby. It's a relatively quiet town until reporter Mina Lee arrives and winds up dead. Maya, Daniel and Rafe (the new boy in town) know something is really wrong and start to investigate Mina Lee and her death. Maya is fascinated by bad boy Rafe and starts spending time with him, until he tells her something unbelievable about himself, his sister and Maya. Now she's questioning everything she's ever believed and Rafe's ultimate intentions.

I liked Maya, Daniel and Rafe (who has his reasons for all he's done). I liked the mystery of who orphan Maya really is and why she was left behind by her mother. I also liked the mystery of what St. Cloud is really doing behind those locked doors and how and why Maya's BFF Serena died. I definitely will continue this series as the cliff hanger ending was intense and I just have to know what is happening and why Maya seems to be in the middle of it all.