The Elementals: A Novel

From a star YA writer Francesca Lia Block author of the Weetzie Bat books comes an adult novel about a student haunted by the disappearance of a friend who must face the truth. The Elementals is on one level an intriguing coming-of-age novel about a young woman Ariel Silverman facing the challenges of her first years away at college in Berkeley California while her mother battles cancer at home in Los Angeles. But the book takes on deeper stranger meanings when we realize that Ariel is haunted by the disappearance of her best friend Jeni who vanished without a trace a few years before closing Ariels heart and changing her forever. Ariel wonders if she will ever be fully alive until she meets three mysterious beautiful and seductive young people living in a strange old house in the Berkeley hills. Through them Ariel will unravel the mystery of her best friends disappearance and face a chilling choice.