No young adult series have done it as successfully and as brilliantly as Megan Shepherd's Madman's Daughter series. “You really were born for this.”Many authors have tried to replicate the classics. “My God,” Lucy said, watching with rapt attention. My fingers were shaking, but I took a deep breath and thought of my father’s steady hands, and mine stilled. I’d memorized human anatomy on pages in a book, and I felt it beneath my own fingers. I knew every fold of skin, every joint and artery. I pressed the scalpel to the base of the brain and cut. With inspiration from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, this breathless conclusion to the Madman’s Daughter trilogy is about the things we’ll sacrifice to save those we love-even our own humanity. And she must decide if she’ll follow her father’s dark footsteps or her mother’s tragic ones, or whether she’ll make her own. Then Juliet uncovers the truth about the manor’s long history of scientific experimentation-and her own intended role in it-forcing her to determine where the line falls between right and wrong, life and death, magic and science, and promises and secrets. Though it appears to be a safe haven, Juliet fears new dangers may be present within the manor’s own walls. Owned by the enigmatic Elizabeth von Stein, the mansion is full of mysteries and unexplained oddities: dead bodies in the basement, secret passages, and fortune-tellers who seem to know Juliet’s secrets. After killing the men who tried to steal her father’s research, Juliet-along with Montgomery, Lucy, Balthazar, and a deathly ill Edward-has escaped to a remote estate on the Scottish moors.

A cold legacy by megan shepherd