Wish List Wednesday

The Shadow Society by Marie Rutkoski, October 16, 2012. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Darcy Jones doesn’t remember anything before the day she was abandoned as a child outside a Chicago firehouse. She has never really belonged anywhere—but she couldn’t have guessed that she comes from an alternate world where the Great Chicago Fire didn’t happen and deadly creatures called Shades terrorize the human population.
Memories begin to haunt Darcy when a new boy arrives at her high school, and he makes her feel both desire and desired in a way she hadn’t thought possible. But Conn’s interest in her is confusing. It doesn’t line up with the way he first looked at her.
As if she were his enemy.

Why: I like the idea of The Shadow Society and that there is an alternate world where things are quite different from that of our own.